Could the Ragin’ Cajuns be getting a new football stadium?

[Just1More]

Other than it being voted one of the the best new stadiums in the world by a panel of archatecture firms, what wrong with it?

It’s too different?

It’s not up to our visions of grandeur?

It only seats 35,000?

We deserve a better stadium that a measily soccer stadium?

P5 programs aren’t expanding their stadiums, they are building for fan experience. Creature comforts and atmosphere is what matters. That stadium would sound like the Superdome after Bret Baer’s FG if it were full. It’s a damn echo chamber with incredible sight lines. It would keep the sun from beating down on a majority of the crowd for early games.

More importantly we can afford a stadium like that. All of y’all want to bash those type of stadiums, yet you’d prefer a 60% increase in capacity while our attendance decreases by 10% each year. That makes all the sense I. The world.

Who is all of y'all? I've never commented on a stadium like this. The only arguments on size of seating capacity have been about the upgrade of Cajun Field. If we modernize it, then there is a) no "soccer stadium style redesign" to choose from, b) the stadium doesn't have to have the additional seating immediately (only provisions for expansion), and c) it is supposed to be modernized.

We all want a more modern stadium. If there's land and a construction design that is better suited for us, has all of the modern features of a "modern soccer stadium"... most fans would love it. Are you advocating we tear down Cajun Field... build your new stadium over a 3-4 year period... relocate UL football during that span (to where and at what cost?)?

I'm trying to figure out who you're trying to argue with. I don't know about this big "y'all" that wouldn't entertain a modern stadium... if it's a plausible option. I certainly am concerned about it structurally at first glance... with respect to high winds. I could be wrong about that. But that was one of my first concerns. The cost of having what you linked... with what may be required structurally for south Louisiana... may not be one and the same.

But again... who do you think you're kicking in the butt about "modern soccer stadiums"? If we can come up with the cheese for a modern design... a place to build it... then everything is on the table. I do not think anyone on here is blowing and going about becoming a P5 conference member much lately. If studies, that accompany stadium designs, show that we are clearly heading for depreciating attendance... then most would hold to an under 40k design (new or upgraded). I've seen no hard facts on new designs or what the targets should be. Articles are a plenty. Facts are not.

[CajunRebel]

I don't know if this has been posted yet but here is BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. It has a similar wrap around design but with better airflow, much cheaper design/materials, and being in Houston it was built to withstand a hurricane.









This is soooo much better than the generic G5 football stadium with an upper deck and press box on one side. This is a "statement" stadium.

[GeauxCajuns]

I don't mind the soccer stadium approach, but don't build something that looks really cool now and looks extremely outdated in 10 short years, I think that's where everyone is being short sighted. Build 35k now with the ability to expand need be in the future. That's all.

[Esqueleto]

I don't mind the soccer stadium approach, but don't build something that looks really cool now and looks extremely outdated in 10 short years, I think that's where everyone is being short sighted. Build 35k now with the ability to expand need be in the future. That's all.

There will Never be a need to expand greater than 35k here. NEVER. What are some of you people smoking? Only time there was that need here was when Southern brought 20k people. Now every game is on a 70 inch TV in Joe Blow's living room. I don't care who plays at Cajun Field in the future. 40k seats is more than enough.

[CajunJeaux]

There will Never be a need to expand greater than 35k here. NEVER. What are some of you people smoking? Only time there was that need here was when Southern brought 20k people. Now every game is on a 70 inch TV in Joe Blow's living room. I don't care who plays at Cajun Field in the future. 40k seats is more than enough.

I agree...and if we ever have a game where it’s the hottest ticket in town??...sorry Johnny-come-lately social butterfly from Lafayette...get in line...go back to Rythms on the River with your bed___zled jeans...

[Turbine]

There will Never be a need to expand greater than 35k here. NEVER. What are some of you people smoking? Only time there was that need here was when Southern brought 20k people. Now every game is on a 70 inch TV in Joe Blow's living room. I don't care who plays at Cajun Field in the future. 40k seats is more than enough.

How can you be so sure?

I like the coziness of 35G but I have the same question I had with campus expansion.

Why sell the horse farm when Lafayette's population will quadruple some day? UL will most definitely run out of land.

Marketed right 35G sellouts can be the norm.

[CajunJeaux]

How can you be so sure?

I like the coziness of 35G but I have the same question I had with campus expansion.

Why sell the horse farm when Lafayette's population will quadruple some day? UL will most definitely run out of land.

Marketed right 35G sellouts can be the norm.

With all due respect...what’s your excuse for Cajundome’s potential from when it was built?...

[Turbine]

With all due respect...what’s your excuse for Cajundome’s potential from when it was built?...

If the IceGators could sell out the CajunDome for 4 straight years, your excuse for not selling it out has to be product/product marketing.

[Turbine]

I don't know if this has been posted yet but here is BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. It has a similar wrap around design but with better airflow, much cheaper design/materials, and being in Houston it was built to withstand a hurricane.









This is soooo much better than the generic G5 football stadium with an upper deck and press box on one side. This is a "statement" stadium.

I don't know what the Houston Dynamo call their color but that color in the picture is, Vermilion Red.

[Rougarou]

If the IceGators could sell out the CajunDome for 4 straight years, your excuse for not selling it out has to be product/product marketing.

Pretty easy to do when you can chomp to Gary glitter and watch Canadians fist fight