2010: Due to Midday Heat Louisiana Moves Game Time Back Where it Belongs

[Rebel02]

_ The Admin got us into the Sun Belt Conference, impso facto, the admin paved the way for us to be on Television. _

Nice stretch, but it doesn't work.

[ManAboutTown]

_ Nice stretch, but it doesn't work. _

You know what Reb, you're right. The Admin had nothing to do with us being on Television. None whatsoever. The admin is only responsible for the bad things that go on here. (sarcasm off)

Agree to disagree on the whole topic. There's no way in hell we should have lost that TV game, and that's the way I, and apparently a lot of other people feel. I see both sides of the argument, but again, it was just NOT going to be that hot again. That game was an anomaly. Just like if we would have played in the snow in Sept. It sucks that we had to go through that, but it wasn't going to be a trend.

[Rebel02]

Look, I'm upset we lost a tv game too, but its not like its a game on espn2. You wouldn't hear this outcry if the game were on national tv. Fact is the game was on regional tv and I'm fine with losing that tv game for a larger home attendance.

You know what Reb, you're right. The Admin had nothing to do with us being on Television. None whatsoever. The admin is only responsible for the bad things that go on here. (sarcasm off)

Agree to disagree on the whole topic. There's no way in hell we should have lost that TV game, and that's the way I, and apparently a lot of other people feel. I see both sides of the argument, but again, it was just NOT going to be that hot again. That game was an anomaly. Just like if we would have played in the snow in Sept. It sucks that we had to go through that, but it wasn't going to be a trend.

igeaux.mobi

[Turbine]

I see both sides of the argument, _

I do to.

You know what I find ironic? If the student side had been full the whole experience would have been much cooler, temp wise and fun wise.

[Turbine]

I'm thinking it was for the UL students who stayed through the 4th quarter.

I found a site that claims the record was for 2003 game between Green Bay and Arizona in Sun Devil Stadium where the temp was 106 at the start of the 4th quarter.

In that game the stands were full and since we humans are designed to maintain close to 98.6 the air around them was probably what was stated and the seats about the same.

The reason the stands may have been hotter for UL fans is the stands were almost empty. Oven hot empty.

Packed fans in the seats tend to shade the stands whereas exposed metal and cement tend to bake. Ever touch your dash board or the top of your car on regular summer day?

Some have asked how do other schools in the south survive a 2:30 pm game? They fill the stands.

UL needs to make game attendance priority one when they put new students through orientation. It would be the cool thing to do.

jmo

[LSUTiger4RaginCajuns]

I've seen conflicting forecasts for Saturday night's game. Accuweather shows high of 92 and sunny.

One of the local forecasts showed high of upper 80's with 30% chance of rain.

[Hammer58]

_ I'm thinking it was for the UL students who stayed through the 4th quarter.

I found a site that claims the record was for 2003 game between Green Bay and Arizona in Sun Devil Stadium where the temp was 106 at the start of the 4th quarter.

In that game the stands were full and since we humans are designed to maintain close to 98.6 the air around them was probably what was stated and the seats about the same.

The reason the stands may have been hotter for UL fans is the stands were almost empty. Oven hot empty.

Packed fans in the seats tend to shade the stands whereas exposed metal and cement tend to bake. Ever touch your dash board or the top of your car on regular summer day?

Some have asked how do other schools in the south survive a 2:30 pm game? They fill the stands.

UL needs to make game attendance priority one when they put new students through orientation. It would be the cool thing to do.

jmo _

Arizona lacks the high humidity that we have hear in LA. I spent a lot of time in the western desert and while temps over 100 degrees are common and uncomfortable the low humidity does make a difference.

[raginsaints]

The student section at Cajun Field has absolutely no protection from the sun. Sun Devil Stadium has an upper bowl all around so I'm guessing that makes a difference.

[LifeTimeCajun]

I still would like to have seen the actual thermometer that read 118.

igeaux.mobi

[ULtimateCajun]

Honestly how many people watch the sun belt game of the week? I'm curious. What kind of numbers do we get? It can't be all that great. So 200 in change won't get to see us play on CST3. I'd rather have butts in the seats. Jmo.

igeaux.mobi

[HelmutVII]

_ I'm thinking it was for the UL students who stayed through the 4th quarter.

I found a site that claims the record was for 2003 game between Green Bay and Arizona in Sun Devil Stadium where the temp was 106 at the start of the 4th quarter.

In that game the stands were full and since we humans are designed to maintain close to 98.6 the air around them was probably what was stated and the seats about the same.

The reason the stands may have been hotter for UL fans is the stands were almost empty. Oven hot empty.

Packed fans in the seats tend to shade the stands whereas exposed metal and cement tend to bake. Ever touch your dash board or the top of your car on regular summer day?

Some have asked how do other schools in the south survive a 2:30 pm game? They fill the stands.

UL needs to make game attendance priority one when they put new students through orientation. It would be the cool thing to do.

jmo _

In order for your theory to work the people would have to be in the stands BEFORE the seats and concrete were exposed to the sun. The concrete and seats were exposed to the heat all day and got hot. The mass of the concrete acts as a heat capacitance and it radiates heat until it reaches equilibrium with the ambient air temperature. I would suspect that that would be several hours after the sun goes down. The fans on the student side were in fact baked by the hot stadium seats/concrete radiating heat from below and also from the sun above. A no win and dangerous situation.

Stadiums that are not built into the ground have the advantage of radiating heat to the air below the seats and air above the seats and they cool off much faster.

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