#RenovateBlackham

[ManAboutTown]

Do not renovate Blackham. One thing people are forgetting is parking. If it rains, everyone is parked in a pasture and many cars will get stuck. The Cajundome is a premier arena. Going back to Blackham would really be USLing it.

The CD is an empty "premier arena" that is a noose around the neck of our program and athletics department.

Plenty of parking at Bourgios, the rec lot and the additional lot across the street. Rodoe proved that this weekend. USLing it was signing awful contracts with ticketmaster and the CajunDome with no access to revenue produced by ads, no control over concessions, no control over your schedule, HUGE overhead costs and absolutely killing the home crowd advantage. It has been proven over and over again that smaller venues are more beneficial on every level and the trend of schools at our level (and lower P5 as well - Even Duke plays in a venue half the size of the CD)

[CajunEXPRESS]

Better bring your seat cushion

At 3700 I’d expect chair-backs.

[Million$Mullet]

At 3700 I’d expect chair-backs.

Well yeah of course. I meant if they just played a few games a year there

[ZoomZoom]

Back in the day, the only sitting in Blackham was at half time.

[ZoomZoom]

Do not renovate Blackham. One thing people are forgetting is parking. If it rains, everyone is parked in a pasture and many cars will get stuck. The Cajundome is a premier arena. Going back to Blackham would really be USLing it.

I forgot about the parking lot flooding. It comes down to overbuilding our two main sports complexes. Granted, at the time, nobody could of predicted where FB and MBB on the national scale would have moved to today. It is now not so much "know your place" but figure out "where" our place is 10-20 years down the road. Alden Report for starters...

The day will come where Blackham will come down. The long term plan going forward is what gets built there.

[BeauCajun]

The day will come where Blackham will come down. The long term plan going forward is what gets built there.

It’ll probably be a car wash.

[ZoomZoom]

It’ll probably be a car wash.

Every time I see a new one going up, I think of Walter White.

They’ve started tearing out Sears, which of course, will have a car wash.

[Turbine]

With the years and years of dirt hauling experience for the Winter Rodeo, Blackham would make a great venue for Beach Volleyball.

Just add sand.

[UL_Cajuns]

Do not renovate Blackham. One thing people are forgetting is parking. If it rains, everyone is parked in a pasture and many cars will get stuck. The Cajundome is a premier arena. Going back to Blackham would really be USLing it.

I have to agree. The newly renovated Cajun Dome is truly an excellent basketball arena. The old CD was not, but it is nice now. No need to go back.

[LouisianaB]

no control over your schedule

Well the Cajundome has made it clear that it’s a basketball arena. UL basketball has priority scheduling.

One impediment to a minor league team taking up residence is the fact that UL men’s and women’s take up twice the dates as before because the schedule is opposite (one week men at home and women on road, next week women at home and men in road).

[Turbine]

Do not renovate Blackham. One thing people are forgetting is parking. If it rains, everyone is parked in a pasture and many cars will get stuck. The Cajundome is a premier arena. Going back to Blackham would really be USLing it.

A few years ago between Blackham and Cajundome Blvd they hauled in about a foot deep worth of ground up blacktop.

I don't know about the other side.

[Big Buds]

I’m 100% all for it! Definitely should be the next focus after Cajun Field. But with that said, all our energy needs to be focused on Cajun Field.