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

[Esqueleto]

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...

Haha. Exactly! What is so wrong with a packet energetic crowd where tickets are in demand?

[CajunJeaux]

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.

Last I recall they had around 853 fans per game their last year in the dome...

[ZoomZoom]

Why sell the horse farm

Because a FEMA floodway runs thru the middle of it with the adjoining flood zone. The floodway is basically dead land, can’t build squat.

I’m not a tree hugger, but after all the shouting was over after the transaction, the university unloaded something that could never be fully developed and would have required perpetual maintenance. A good move from a fiscal point.

[Ragin9221]

Look let's be realistic the architecture has to fit the University! So the new stadium has to have something like this. We can do this with the 70 million stadium I proposed on post #82

[Ragin9221]

Here are some examples

[Turbine]

Last I recall they had around 853 fans per game their last year in the dome...

That's fair, but with all due respect, you asked about the "Cajundome's potential"

It has been proven that with the right product and right product marketing, it's potential can be utilized.

We have the info on where the IceGators went wrong, but we also know it can be done. They changed ownership, endured scandal, changed leagues and quit marketing to save money.

Still with their sustained 4-year spurt we know the Cajundome's potential can be reached.

I'd still like a smaller venue though, just answering your question.

[Turbine]

Because a FEMA floodway runs thru the middle of it with the adjoining flood zone. The floodway is basically dead land, can't build squat.

I'm not a tree hugger, but after all the shouting was over after the transaction, the university unloaded something that could never be fully developed and would have required perpetual maintenance. A good move from a fiscal point.

All you have to do is look at the residential areas across Johnston that straddle the "FEMA floodway" as well as the residential areas on the back end of the 100 acres where Coulee Mine dumps into the river to recognize that 80% of that land can be utilized.

The debatable portion is perfect for federal education grants to study flood zones. Including but not limited to being the perfect location for the Ira Nelson Horticulture Center, which would have freed up Johnston Street land for the Main Campus.

Point being, don't let the current needs dictate and lock you in for the long term.

[Turbine]

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

Ok I checked, "officially" their color is orange, and their paraphernalia is very orange.

The stadium hue in those pictures is very Vermilion Red.

[Just1More]

Why are some of you getting mad about your new Cajun Field ideas... as if this forum votes and decides what's built? Personally, I think we're drifting away from the Master Plan renderings. So there's a good chance some new design ideas (phases) are being studied. If there are solid arguments for a grassroots development over the modernizing phases of Cajun Field, it is on the table. If it isn't on the table, it's because your cost analysis (everything considered) falls short.

But getting upset with your fellow RPer is kind of silly. Whatever we build, unlike private groups that can go bankrupt and run away from their debt, we have to pay for it, and we have to make it last for 30 to 50 years. Personally, the only way I see a brand new grassroots football stadium is if there's a big private use that will partner and help pay for it.

[HOUCajun]

Ok I checked, "officially" their color is orange, and their paraphernalia is very orange.

The stadium hue in those pictures is very Vermilion Red.

Dynamo stadium is definitely orange. TX Southern also plays there and I believe hey are orange also