You do understand that the stadium is so outdated that there’s a chairback next to my seats that doesn’t even have a seat to it. And it can’t be repaired because they don’t make the parts anymore.
We play in a stadium that’s stuck in 1975. The renovations are waaaaaay overdue.
I take back what I said. I'm not sure I attend anymore games from this point out. I'm exhausted from trying to be a fan. It's not supposed to work that way. I'm the one paying for the entertainment. The ones that are GETTING PAID are the ones that should be exhausted from making sure the paying fans are the ones enjoying that entertainment. It's insanity to keep paying money to be this exhausted and disgusted.
"I would not be surprised that the top 20 ranking under Napier brought some unwanted attention politically to T-Joe and he got scared. He's more concerned about his legacy Academically, and backed off. This is the result. Apathy and a return to anemic football."
I don't buy that, honestly. The two aren't mutually exclusive. You can have great academics and still have a great athletics program. In fact, they work hand in hand and can enhance each other.
That's not the point. It's the fact that they're not doing ANYTHING to fix the game day experience, believing the new stadium is gonna fix all that. The only thing that will accomplish is an even more ____ed off and apathetic fanbase (even more than it is now). All that line of thinking will get you is a shiny new toy with no one there to enjoy it. If they don't fix the truckload of problems we have, we'll be in a worse position after the reno is finally done.
I just shows you we didn’t have the facilities for anyone to be successful in recruiting here. Now that he compete with pier programs in facilities he is having success. It’s kind of like ULM trying to compete with the rest of the conference in football with sub par facilities.
You have to wonder if Martin Hall will ever do anything to sabotage the softball program. Why have they chosen to destroy football but left softball alone?
Because we are a softball school.
All kidding aside. If you want to go on the hypothesis that the leadership doesn’t want athletics to “outshine” academics, or that someone above them doesn’t want any public institution to get more attention than “the Flagship”; softball doesn’t upset either apple cart.
Not saying either of those hypotheses are correct. And I’ve long been proud of our softball program.
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