Are you ready for Tiger Stadium?
Is Tiger Stadium Ready for You?
The home of LSU football isn’t looking very hospitable right now.
At least not on the west side of Tiger Stadium, the facility’s “front door” which faces Nicholson Drive.
Scaffolding affixes itself to the upper reaches of the still-not-completed new west upper deck. Construction and landscaping materials, not cars, cover much of the rebuilt west stadium parking lot, which still needs concrete and paving bricks in several areas.
This place is going to host a football game Saturday between LSU and Louisiana-Lafayette?
Gen. Ron Richard, CEO of the Tiger Athletic Foundation which is funding most of the stadium improvements, says yes, and that the stadium and its surroundings are closer to being ready than they appear.
“It will be complete except for ‘punch list’ stuff,” Richard said, “odds and ends.”
“Everything will be close. But I think the fans will be very impressed.”
Some work remains to be done on the large windows that will look out of the stadium from the club level — lucrative new club seats were the major reason the west upper deck was rebuilt in the first place — and some other decorating touches are required.
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By SCOTT RABALAIS
Advocate sportswriter
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