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

[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

[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.