I'm ready for some Softball.......

[moorecajun]

_ I am sooooo disappointed, I thought the chair backs were going to be RED, not yellow! _

The contractor may have gotten them for a steal out of town! lol

[luvmesomecajuns]

All the stadium seats will be in for opening day. ALL the chair back seats will be in for opening day. The stadium will be READY for opening day. In fact, I was there this week and I sat in the stadium and watched the team scrimmage. Great seat and great view and a very enjoyable setting.

THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BE AWESOME. IT IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. WE ARE GOING TO ENJOY THIS PLACE FOR YEARS AND YEARS TO COME! THANK-YOU FOR TAKING CARE OF THE SOFTBALL TEAM AND THE SOFTBALL FANS!!! IMO, this stadium will be one of the nicest softball facilities in the country!!!

Everybody who bought season tickets will be sitting in their seats on opening day. The bathroom facility will be ready for opening day. The concession stand will be ready. The ticket booth will be ready. The locker room will be completed. The press box/suite will be ready.

I was told that the top or cover for the stadium probably will not be on until the McNeese game - or the third playing home date at Lamson Field; and the suites at the top will be constructed and bricked in but there will probably be some finishing stuff to do. But for most of us, the stadium will be ready and we will be in our seats. NO LAWN CHAIRS. NO PORT-O-LETS. NO OUTFIELD BLEACHERS unless that is where you enjoy sitting (not bad seats either, by the way).

PROGRESS sometimes comes too slow and often times inconveniences some; as MLK once said, if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl but no matter what - just keep moving forward. KEEP MOVING FORWARD. I want to sprint but I don't mind crawling - as long as we are moving forward. I am thankful for PROGRESS. I remember the early days of the softball program - we crawled for many years and I consider what is going on now as sprinting - but hopefully we all see PROGRESS. And no matter what inconveniences we are caused, hopefully we are wise enough to be appreciative and thankful for OUR PROGRESS.

This stadium is a BIG DEAL to all the softball fans who bought raffle tickets in the 80s and 90s to support the team or used the port-o-lets or who sat in the rain to cheer on our team or who bought gameday sponsors or were centerfield boosters. I could not help but smile as I sat in the bleachers last week watching the team scrimmage - I had to keep pinching myself and as I looked around, I kept saying "WOW, I can't believe how AWESOME this stadium is" and "WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY". PROGRESS is a good thing!!! A real good thing!!!

[CajunRed]

Imagine...all that b_____g for nothing? Can't be!

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[Frenchie35]

_ All the stadium seats will be in for opening day. ALL the chair back seats will be in for opening day. The stadium will be READY for opening day. In fact, I was there this week and I sat in the stadium and watched the team scrimmage. Great seat and great view and a very enjoyable setting.

THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BE AWESOME. IT IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. WE ARE GOING TO ENJOY THIS PLACE FOR YEARS AND YEARS TO COME! THANK-YOU FOR TAKING CARE OF THE SOFTBALL TEAM AND THE SOFTBALL FANS!!! IMO, this stadium will be one of the nicest softball facilities in the country!!!

Everybody who bought season tickets will be sitting in their seats on opening day. The bathroom facility will be ready for opening day. The concession stand will be ready. The ticket booth will be ready. The locker room will be completed. The press box/suite will be ready.

I was told that the top or cover for the stadium probably will not be on until the McNeese game - or the third playing home date at Lamson Field; and the suites at the top will be constructed and bricked in but there will probably be some finishing stuff to do. But for most of us, the stadium will be ready and we will be in our seats. NO LAWN CHAIRS. NO PORT-O-LETS. NO OUTFIELD BLEACHERS unless that is where you enjoy sitting (not bad seats either, by the way).

PROGRESS sometimes comes too slow and often times inconveniences some; as MLK once said, if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl but no matter what - just keep moving forward. KEEP MOVING FORWARD. I want to sprint but I don't mind crawling - as long as we are moving forward. I am thankful for PROGRESS. I remember the early days of the softball program - we crawled for many years and I consider what is going on now as sprinting - but hopefully we all see PROGRESS. And no matter what inconveniences we are caused, hopefully we are wise enough to be appreciative and thankful for OUR PROGRESS.

This stadium is a BIG DEAL to all the softball fans who bought raffle tickets in the 80s and 90s to support the team or used the port-o-lets or who sat in the rain to cheer on our team or who bought gameday sponsors or were centerfield boosters. I could not help but smile as I sat in the bleachers last week watching the team scrimmage - I had to keep pinching myself and as I looked around, I kept saying "WOW, I can't believe how AWESOME this stadium is" and "WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY". PROGRESS is a good thing!!! A real good thing!!! _

The McNeese game is on the road Feb. 26 for the Cowgirl Classic. The first ten games are at home form Feb 11 through Feb. 20. You will see no work during those ten days that will amount to anything. (Libility reasons) Then they want be home form Feb 21 through March 26, a home game against Troy. So on Feb. 11 through Feb 20 we get what we get. Than they have over a month to try and complete the job.

You talk about the seating being done for game day on Feb. 11. My question is why are they not working on it now? They havn't done anything as far as the seating in the stadium in over a month. I don't think they have enough employees. I will check it out today.

[Rebel02]

A good example of why it may seem like it is taking too long.

I signed a contract to purchase my first home in July 2009. The agreed upon closing date would not be until late November 2009. The house construction moved along fairly well in August and September and then nothing for about 5-6 weeks in October and early November. Why you ask? Its simple. The construction company had other homes that were closing in October and early November and wanted to finish those on time to close. So they moved their man power to work on those homes while mine sat idly for about 5-6 weeks. Then once those other homes were completed, in about 2-3 weeks, mine was completed and I still closed before the end of November 2009.

Here's how it relates to UL softball. The construction company obviously knows it has time to finish before February 11. So they devote their man power to other projects and allow for some construction to go on the softball stadium. Now that the beginning of the season is near, you'll see more going on with the softball stadium. Hopefully though, they do finish before the season begins. I feel that they will and everyone will find something else to complain about.

[Frenchie35]

Well let's see. You have some complaining about no work being done and you are complaining that some are complaining about no work being done. Hell everyone has something to complain about.........some are on the front side and some on the back side of the fence. Maybe two or three on top of the fence.

[CajunT]

_ All the stadium seats will be in for opening day. ALL the chair back seats will be in for opening day. The stadium will be READY for opening day. In fact, I was there this week and I sat in the stadium and watched the team scrimmage. Great seat and great view and a very enjoyable setting.

THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BE AWESOME. IT IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. WE ARE GOING TO ENJOY THIS PLACE FOR YEARS AND YEARS TO COME! THANK-YOU FOR TAKING CARE OF THE SOFTBALL TEAM AND THE SOFTBALL FANS!!! IMO, this stadium will be one of the nicest softball facilities in the country!!!

Everybody who bought season tickets will be sitting in their seats on opening day. The bathroom facility will be ready for opening day. The concession stand will be ready. The ticket booth will be ready. The locker room will be completed. The press box/suite will be ready.

I was told that the top or cover for the stadium probably will not be on until the McNeese game - or the third playing home date at Lamson Field; and the suites at the top will be constructed and bricked in but there will probably be some finishing stuff to do. But for most of us, the stadium will be ready and we will be in our seats. NO LAWN CHAIRS. NO PORT-O-LETS. NO OUTFIELD BLEACHERS unless that is where you enjoy sitting (not bad seats either, by the way).

PROGRESS sometimes comes too slow and often times inconveniences some; as MLK once said, if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl but no matter what - just keep moving forward. KEEP MOVING FORWARD. I want to sprint but I don't mind crawling - as long as we are moving forward. I am thankful for PROGRESS. I remember the early days of the softball program - we crawled for many years and I consider what is going on now as sprinting - but hopefully we all see PROGRESS. And no matter what inconveniences we are caused, hopefully we are wise enough to be appreciative and thankful for OUR PROGRESS.

This stadium is a BIG DEAL to all the softball fans who bought raffle tickets in the 80s and 90s to support the team or used the port-o-lets or who sat in the rain to cheer on our team or who bought gameday sponsors or were centerfield boosters. I could not help but smile as I sat in the bleachers last week watching the team scrimmage - I had to keep pinching myself and as I looked around, I kept saying "WOW, I can't believe how AWESOME this stadium is" and "WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY". PROGRESS is a good thing!!! A real good thing!!! _

Oh stop it!....You just giving some of the complainers too many facts! Its only going to slow them down for a few days, then they will be right back at it. Thanks for trying!

[STEVEAUX UL 78]

Any progress this week on the stadium?....We should be getting work done since this weekend?


igeaux.mobi

[Bunch24]

Haven't been out there all week, but I was told by several people last weekend that the people doing the stadium said it would all be done by the time UL played its next home game, which I believe is March 15 or so.

It seems like they still had a lot of work to do, but I guess most of that work is purely cosmetic and not as much structural.

I know one thing, it's going to be a beautiful place to watch a softball game when it's all finished.

[STEVEAUX UL 78]

Yep...it is going to be nice!...see the photos in the other thread from today...Just need to keep this in the forefront...

igeaux.mobi