Coaches salaries

[CajunNation]

If Louisiana has a word, those items need to be stressed.

If Tech can get into CUSA by promising a budget ....

Louisiana needs to promise a State of the Art football stadium.

With the recent Softball and Baseball builds, a football build promise carries credibility.

We need to begin ASAP in replacing the upper deck with a knock your socks off Press Box/Suite structure. This gets us the most bang for our buck in the shortest time frame.

We can get to everything else later, but we NEED to begin this, NOW.

[CajunVic]

We need to begin ASAP in replacing the upper deck with a knock your socks off Press Box/Suite structure. This gets us the most bang for our buck in the shortest time frame.

We can get to everything else later, but we NEED to begin this, NOW.

That's Pretty Fast.

[Cajun90]

We need to begin ASAP in replacing the upper deck with a knock your socks off Press Box/Suite structure. This gets us the most bang for our buck in the shortest time frame.

We can get to everything else later, but we NEED to begin this, NOW.

This has been discussed ad-nauseum.... there are structural issues at hand along with code issues. It is not that simple.

[MelRock]

I think some on this board that have their seats up top, are going to be ____ed when they lose those seats.

[cajun4life]

I think some on this board that have their seats up top, are going to be ____ed when they lose those seats.

UD2 is easily the best seats in the stadium. It’s not even close.

[CajunNation]

This has been discussed ad-nauseum.... there are structural issues at hand along with code issues. It is not that simple.

Last I heard, there would be minimal issues with taking down the upper deck and replacing it with new structure.

[DieHard1280]

We can always build the press box now then take it back down and set it on the side during the offseason where we rebuild the lower deck then put it back. Problem solved.

[BeauCajun]

I think some on this board that have their seats up top, are going to be ____ed when they lose those seats.

I am resigned to the fact that our group of 16 will lose our seats upstairs. What’s bad is that the choice of replacement seats we will have at that point in time will be terrible.

[HoustonCajun]

This has been discussed ad-nauseum.... there are structural issues at hand along with code issues. It is not that simple.

Refresh my memory. Are the structural issues only on the double deck side? If so, why not fill in the NEZ to match the SEZ and put a small upper deck on the student side as the next phase. Then, when we are ready to tear down the upper deck and deal with the structural issues, we will have the seats in place to accommodate the fans during construction. Wasn't the SEZ project about $4m? The NEZ should be about that or a little more expensive. This phase would be far less expensive than the entire project and help solve some stadium issues now. Yes, we need suites and a new press box, but this could possibly be affordable now and as we continue to win and build more support, we can go the the final critical stage. Now, if the student side also has structural issues, just start with the NEZ. Also, perhaps the university needs to invest in the stadium as it does with campus buildings to help kick this off. Seems better than doing nothing until we get private funding for the whole project and who knows when that will happen. We need to show some movement towards a development plan that will make a statement to fans and prospective conferences.

[GeauxLouisiana]

Athletic Budgets

76.4 mil - Kansas State

71.8 mil - Iowa State

71.0 mil - Louisiana (our budget plus the Big-12 TV revenue)


https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/

We wouldn’t get the same share of media revenue that current Big 12 members get. Plus, their share of the pie would decrease as we wouldn’t bring an increase in any revenue to the conference and I don’t know a single school that would vote to add a member and see their media revenue decrease.