#RenovateBlackham

[Turbine]

I imagine it would be difficult for us to get state funds to build a new basketball arena after we just used state funds to renovate our current basketball arena.

WorDing

Don't mention basketball.

Focus on 1000 other uses.

[Crawfish]

It is kind of funny seeing people who did not attend a game in years saying the atmosphere in the Cajun Dome is dead. The last 2 games showed that the Dome can be a good venue when folks show up. I had season tickets when Jesse was here and there were many times that the Dome was rocking. It can happen again. Blackham is an eyesore that needs to leveled as soon as possible. I attended the "throwback' game there several years back and it was and is disgusting. Every now and then someone floats this idiotic idea that Blackham can be a nice arena again with money that we don't have. It will never happen and it shouldn't.

Show up for basketball at the Dome and you can be part of the solution.

[JMV JustMyView]

It is kind of funny seeing people who did not attend a game in years saying the atmosphere in the Cajun Dome is dead. The last 2 games showed that the Dome can be a good venue when folks show up. I had season tickets when Jesse was here and there were many times that the Dome was rocking. It can happen again. Blackham is an eyesore that needs to leveled as soon as possible. I attended the "throwback' game there several years back and it was and is disgusting. Every now and then someone floats this idiotic idea that Blackham can be a nice arena again with money that we don't have. It will never happen and it shouldn't.

Show up for basketball at the Dome and you can be part of the solution.

What exactly is the solution? Please explain.

[ManAboutTown]

It is kind of funny seeing people who did not attend a game in years saying the atmosphere in the Cajun Dome is dead. The last 2 games showed that the Dome can be a good venue when folks show up. I had season tickets when Jesse was here and there were many times that the Dome was rocking. It can happen again. Blackham is an eyesore that needs to leveled as soon as possible. I attended the "throwback' game there several years back and it was and is disgusting. Every now and then someone floats this idiotic idea that Blackham can be a nice arena again with money that we don't have. It will never happen and it shouldn't.

Show up for basketball at the Dome and you can be part of the solution.

Showing up doesn't solve a single problem with any measurable results. Doesn't change the concessions, the impossibility of ad revenue, the cavernous emptiness, the lack of schedule control, the awful atmosphere and certainly doesn't change the mediocre product we've been served up for the better part of a decade.

Renovate Blackham.

[JMV JustMyView]

Showing up doesn't solve a single problem with any measurable results. Doesn't change the concessions, the impossibility of ad revenue, the cavernous emptiness, the lack of schedule control, the awful atmosphere and certainly doesn't change the mediocre product we've been served up for the better part of a decade.

Renovate Blackham.

Going with MAT on this.

[Geaux]

The structure of the Cajun Dome doesn't work anymore.

It's time to make the second level all club seating and put curtains up in the 3rd level. Force all other seating into the 1st level.

[Turbine]

The structure of the Cajun Dome doesn't work anymore.

It's time to make the second level all club seating and put curtains up in the 3rd level. Force all other seating into the 1st level.

That's what I thought they were going to do last remodel.

[zeppelincajun]

It is kind of funny seeing people who did not attend a game in years saying the atmosphere in the Cajun Dome is dead. The last 2 games showed that the Dome can be a good venue when folks show up. I had season tickets when Jesse was here and there were many times that the Dome was rocking. It can happen again. Blackham is an eyesore that needs to leveled as soon as possible. I attended the "throwback' game there several years back and it was and is disgusting. Every now and then someone floats this idiotic idea that Blackham can be a nice arena again with money that we don't have. It will never happen and it shouldn't.

Show up for basketball at the Dome and you can be part of the solution.

I’m not sure how one could take that away from the last couple games. Announced 3K crowds. 1.5k or so butts in seats. Almost 10k empty seats. Even if we get to excellent 5K crowds it’s over half empty. Whether we should renovate or build something new aside, the Dome will NEVER be what we need for a basketball venue.

[Cajunsmike]

I’m not sure how one could take that away from the last couple games. Announced 3K crowds. 1.5k or so butts in seats. Almost 10k empty seats. Even if we get to excellent 5K crowds it’s over half empty. Whether we should renovate or build something new aside, the Dome will NEVER be what we need for a basketball venue.

Crawfish is right in that the energy in the Dome in the last two games was improved over the past. There were definitely more than 1500 people there on Saturday Kids and Band helped there. If you were not there, you probably can’t appreciate this. Definitely does not come across on TV. Problems like Ticket Master fees and high concession prices are issues we could take control of were we not tied to Dome. Can we address these while still playing in Dome?

[zeppelincajun]

Crawfish is right in that the energy in the Dome in the last two games was improved over the past. There were definitely more than 1500 people there on Saturday Kids and Band helped there. If you were not there, you probably can’t appreciate this. Definitely does not come across on TV. Problems like Ticket Master fees and high concession prices are issues we could take control of were we not tied to Dome. Can we address these while still playing in Dome?

I was there Thursday and Saturday. These are my pics from Saturday midway through 1H. If there are more than 1.5k, it isn't by much. The kids did help Saturday, and Thursday's student crowd was better than Saturday's. Hopefully the student crowds will be back since school started today.

I sure hope we can because as much as I believe the CD will never suit our purposes (IMO 5K should be our max capacity for a basketball venue), I also don't ever see an alternative ever being pursued. Even with programs like YRCC where kids get in for a small fee per year to all events, parents with multiple kids would still be out a fortune per game to bring the whole family.

[ZoomZoom]

Considering the facility was built in 2017 and McNeese began playing games there in 2018, which storm’s FEMA money are you saying built the facility?

Repair after Hurricane Laura, 2020. Drove by on way going south after storm, east side was ripped open.

[zeppelincajun]

Repair after Hurricane Laura, 2020. Drove by on way going south after storm, east side was ripped open.

Right. But you said FEMA money was responsible for McNeese’s progress in infrastructure. That facility was funded by state money and private donations. What the split on that was, I have not been able to find yet.