Oaks Along Cajun Field

[RaginCajun77]

I keep hearing that we must "increase donor participation and annual giving" to Make Cajun Field Great Again, but it turned out that all we really needed was a coach who took it upon himself to get the kind of crowds we need.

There's a saying used during the Courir Du Mardi Gras, "Cinq-sous pour les Mardi Gras!" Riders with their hands out beg for charity for the community gumbo at the end of the Mardi Gras ride. It feels as though this is the approach we've seen for years now, a hand out asking for more charity, but the revelry is lacking.

[fanof71]

Not Oak related, but the work on OLOL is moving quickly....windows and glass installed, brick work is nearly done, new entrances are going up it's looking good..

[cajun4life]

On the 1st day of the last century, Edwin Stevens planted approximately 100 oak trees around the perimeter of the original SLII campus. He had gathered the acorns from a particularly impressive specimen he found in New Orleans.

It was an act of audacity. Stevens planted, around a tiny nothing of a school, in a dead-end backwater of a town, the slowest thing that grows in the South. He planted something he would never see grown, something that his children and grandchildren would never see grown.

He planted something that our grandchildren, and our great-great grandchildren, will never see fully grown.

When I started at USL in the 1970's, Cajun Field was new, clean, modern, impressive.

A mere 50 years later, we're tearing it down.

What will this new stadium look like in 50 years?

On the other hand, what will the oak trees look like in 500 years? Will there even be a football stadium behind them?

In 500 years, will people even play football any more?

ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS EST

Remove the dang trees!!

Place medians in the grass and paved parking lots that are 20’ wide. Plant 75 new live oak trees in the Newley created medians and now you have an entire oak grove to tailgate in. Similar to Ole Miss.

Problem solved. Your welcome.