Cajuns are after 18th Win when they host Troy on Thursday

[CajunFan3406]

I didn't tell her the difference. She hates their mascot. Couple years ago it came by us during a came over there and she smacked it.

Atta girl. :-)

[CajunRebel]

I agree with both C4L and CE. I think the Dome itself is too big, but I think the seating capacity is fine. The Dome was designed real poorly. It's actually too tall. Majority of the permanent seats are along the lengths and then both width sides only have second level seating and/or boxes. This leads to having 25+ rows in the third level which makes the dome too tall, thus sounding too cavernous.

The first level should be complete perm seats with bottom 10 rows and one entire side as retractable for stages for concerts. Second level should stay the same. Third level should subtract about 15 rows and wrap around the whole way. I never understood what that big area, across from the boxes, on the 3rd level was ever meant for.

But all of these ^ improvements definitely would not be in a $19MM budget.

Actually what you mentioned on the first level is exactly what they plan on doing.

If I were them I'd spend money to install a few rows of rafters that would hang just above the suite level. At least two long rows on either side of the court. You could put new court lighting on them that would only light the court, not the thousands of empty seats in the dome. You could also hang all the banners on them so they'd be right above the court. I think that would go a long way towards improving the atmosphere in the dome.