Oaks Along Cajun Field

[Policarp]

Unless it's a historical tree (ie Evangeline Oak)....I will not get emotionally attached to any tree/firewood/lumber

[GeauxCajuns]

We should build it look like the dl Horton subdivisions that have No trees at all. We can have the spec home of stadiums and really draw out the youngsville crowd.

(No offense to youngsville residents or subdivision dwellers)

[Jacob81]

Leave the oaks. You want to see the stadium, get closer. I can care less about the view from the road. A lot of stadiums are crammed in downtown areas where you wouldn’t even get a distant view. I’d like the grass area to eventually have parking towers along Bertrand kind of enclosing the whole area.

[Turbine]

People who are already cajuns fans will be there. I will bet my bottom dollar people will go to at least a game or 2 that hasn’t been in years out of curiosity. The fan I am talking about has never been a Cajuns fan, maybe even just moved here and drive by this great new big multimillion dollar structure daily, and gets curious to see what it looks like on the inside. As it stands now you can’t even see that great big new beautiful structure from the road.

Are you suggesting that Lafayette doesn’t show up for something new in town out of curiosity? Do you live here? If you don’t think so then your head must be as hard as the brick that the oak trees are hiding.

You said "new" and "curiosity"

Obviously the stadium is new. Anyone who doesn't know that either will never step in a stadium or has never seen a squirrel.

So the stadium is new and the oak trees provide curiosity through partial obscurity.

[CajunFun]

Since the time of our first president everything outside of the quad was constructed. Just to rattle off a few, Griffin, Legacy Park, Vet Village, Cajun village, they new area by the Red Zone store, the new student union, BI Moody, Bourgeois, Moncla, Cajun Field, Tigue Moore, Cajun Dome, the APC, the research park on cajun dome across congress street. Can you either confirm or deny that no Oaks were injured in the construction of any of these buildings?

You know the answer to that. Improvements sometimes mean removing cherished trees, buildings, and other structures.

But none of the oaks were ever removed because someone thought that UL would impress more people without them.

[fanof71]

Mm

[Cajunrunner]

“Just saw” what you quoted here posted on FB by “someone else”?

🤔

[cjr3888]

“Just saw” what you quoted here posted on FB by “someone else”?

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That was in fact posted by "someone else". Not the same guy.

[Big Buds]

To anyone who cares, the phrase is, “I couldn’t care less”.

[KajunKrazy]

You know the answer to that. Improvements sometimes mean removing cherished trees, buildings, and other structures.

But none of the oaks were ever removed because someone thought that UL would impress more people without them.

My answer would be is that the trees in question do impede the beauty of the 65 million dollar facility. I could ride around the main campus or go to Girard park and see all the trees one could ever want to see. I don’t see the purpose in building a 65 million dollar facility and hide it with trees. I mean they are just freaking trees. We talking about trees just move them as they are out of place where they stand now.

I love how some of you on here could swear we are talking about murdering a baby or something. We talking about moving a few freaking trees.