Oaks Along Cajun Field

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Originally Posted by wcd35

In 50 years when they finally demolish the Cox building and build a fan square like they once dreamed of doing, they should move those oaks to line that area.

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That’s all dependent on the east side of Cajun Field getting constructed from what I understand .

Hopefully that doesn’t take 50 years. The oaks on the east side will definitely have to be removed

And just for the record, I dont think it's necessary to move them any time soon. Was just remembering how long ago that master plan with the fan square where the Cox building is came out lol

Looked at the construction when I parked for baseball over the weekend. Only the sides of the structure appear to be blocked by trees. The center piece of the structure was unobstructed, which is the main club area with windows that will allow you to see inside from the parking lot.

Y'all _____ing about nothing again.

Also, you can purchase the naming rights to 1 of the 4 oak trees for $50,000. Maybe y'all should pool your pennies together and donate the money and have UL tear one of them down.

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Originally Posted by GeauxLA

Looked at the construction when I parked for baseball over the weekend. Only the sides of the structure appear to be blocked by trees. The center piece of the structure was unobstructed, which is the main club area with windows that will allow you to see inside from the parking lot.

Y'all _____ing about nothing again.

Also, you can purchase the naming rights to 1 of the 4 oak trees for $50,000. Maybe y'all should pool your pennies together and donate the money and have UL tear one of them down.

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If you look at the entire structure from Bertrand from left corner to right corner 75% of the entire structure is blocked by trees. That is fact I see it every day. That is all I ever stated nothing more or nothing less.

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Originally Posted by CharlieK

There is no shortage of oak trees in south Louisiana. I’ll never understand why people think cutting a few down is some unforgivable sin.

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No doubt. I can look out of my front door and see 2 in my front yard. I can look out of my kitchen window and see in the neighborhood of 30 in the park across the street. As the crow flies I live less than a mile from cajun field. Just between my house and cajun field driving on the roads I cross 100s easily.

Never understood the value some put into one freaking tree when there or literally several hundred in a miles radius. Something I guess I’ll never understand.

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Originally Posted by facelessjonmoon

That’s all dependent on the east side of Cajun Field getting constructed from what I understand .

Hopefully that doesn’t take 50 years. The oaks on the east side will definitely have to be removed

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This is my much bigger concern. I'm happy we will have a new half of Cajun Field, however we don't want to continue to have broadcasts and other activites from The Duck Blinds@Cajun Field.

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Originally Posted by facelessjonmoon

That’s all dependent on the east side of Cajun Field getting constructed from what I understand .

Hopefully that doesn’t take 50 years. The oaks on the east side will definitely have to be removed

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That’s up to the state. Funding priority needs to move to 1.

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Originally Posted by RaginCajun77

This is my much bigger concern. I'm happy we will have a new half of Cajun Field, however we don't want to continue to have broadcasts and other activites from The Duck Blinds@Cajun Field.

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Well, this is half-ass U

On the 1st day of the last century, Edwin Stevens planted approximately 100 oak trees around the perimeter of the original SLII campus. He had gathered the acorns from a particularly impressive specimen he found in New Orleans.

It was an act of audacity. Stevens planted, around a tiny nothing of a school, in a dead-end backwater of a town, the slowest thing that grows in the South. He planted something he would never see grown, something that his children and grandchildren would never see grown.

He planted something that our grandchildren, and our great-great grandchildren, will never see fully grown.

When I started at USL in the 1970's, Cajun Field was new, clean, modern, impressive.

A mere 50 years later, we're tearing it down.

What will this new stadium look like in 50 years?

On the other hand, what will the oak trees look like in 500 years? Will there even be a football stadium behind them?

In 500 years, will people even play football any more?

ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS EST

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Originally Posted by CajunFun

On the 1st day of the last century, Edwin Stevens planted approximately 100 oak trees around the perimeter of the original SLII campus. He had gathered the acorns from a particularly impressive specimen he found in New Orleans.

It was an act of audacity. Stevens planted, around a tiny nothing of a school, in a dead-end backwater of a town, the slowest thing that grows in the South. He planted something he would never see grown, something that his children and grandchildren would never see grown.

He planted something that our grandchildren, and our great-great grandchildren, will never see fully grown.

When I started at USL in the 1970's, Cajun Field was new, clean, modern, impressive.

A mere 50 years later, we're tearing it down.

What will this new stadium look like in 50 years?

On the other hand, what will the oak trees look like in 500 years? Will there even be a football stadium behind them?

In 500 years, will people even play football any more?

ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS EST

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Interesting take on this thread.

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Originally Posted by CajunFun

On the 1st day of the last century, Edwin Stevens planted approximately 100 oak trees around the perimeter of the original SLII campus. He had gathered the acorns from a particularly impressive specimen he found in New Orleans.

It was an act of audacity. Stevens planted, around a tiny nothing of a school, in a dead-end backwater of a town, the slowest thing that grows in the South. He planted something he would never see grown, something that his children and grandchildren would never see grown.

He planted something that our grandchildren, and our great-great grandchildren, will never see fully grown.

When I started at USL in the 1970's, Cajun Field was new, clean, modern, impressive.

A mere 50 years later, we're tearing it down.

What will this new stadium look like in 50 years?

On the other hand, what will the oak trees look like in 500 years? Will there even be a football stadium behind them?

In 500 years, will people even play football any more?

ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS EST

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Acorns from a specific Oak in Nola you say. First off, very interesting. Next, do you know of which area in the city this oak was? Reason I ask is because there is one in a completely rundown area of Uptown that a hospital was built around (the hospital is shut down as well). This Oak I speak of has Eight (8) trunks. It could well be over One Thousand years old.

If they have to be removed and Champions Swamp isn't ready....

Move them to the tailgating area.

This is a proven draw and atmoshphere enhancer.