Excited

[DaddyCajun]

More news in from Gerald! He asked me to post several bits of News!

Before I go there, Coach Lee wants you at the Meeting tonight @ the Basketball office, with Ideas for moving the Cajuns up to a Major player in the basketball world. Season ticket ideas, dressingroom improvements, recruiting dollars, tournaments, etc.

Maurice Barksdale is a Cajun!!!!!!!!!! As per Coach Lee!!


Gerald states that TWO gentlemen have agreed to buy the Hydro Therapy Room for $30,000.

The weightroom Phase II of the improvements, have had Designers for the building structural and electrical step up and donate their services!!

Others have been donating monies to the program in addition to being season ticket holders.

Houston Texans want to come this Summer but the wife of our beloved Alumn that is Co-Owner just pasted away. My families condolences go out to him and his families.

DaddyCajun!!

ps Canopies at the Tigue coming soon and Lourdes Park to break groud in the next several weeks! SwampGates to be built this summer and in June the parking and road ways in Cajun Athletic Complex to be resurfaced!!

[CajunRebel]

Did you say baseball canopies? Where will these canopies be located?

[DaddyCajun]

One Canopy is already done, it is on the 1st base cooking area. The next one is to be built on the 3rd base side in the box seat area. The other ones are being built in Our Lady of Lourdes Park starting in a few weeks! These canopies have been donated by Ideal Steel!!!

DaddyCajun!!

[locoguano]

About the ideas about cajun field.. skyboxes are a great idea if companies are going to buy/rent them.. additional seating is not a good idea.. there is no point in adding seats until they can be filled. I see the progressive approach, but we are averaging about 13k empty seats per game. Thats a lot of butts. A way to fill them (that will never happen) is to let alcohol in. Most D-1 schools allow alcohol at sporting events. I'm not a big drinker, but I would pay for a drink or two at a game.. thats about 4 bucks a beer, 2 or so beers per person, 8 dollars x say the 5000 or so that drink.. thats 40k per game in the schools coffers..

[cajun tom]

I say if they sell beer at Cajun games I think they should stop sales at the end of halftime.

[RedBug58]

Ya you right Bro! I could have used a beer many times, especially during the Baldwin error...............

[CajunProud]

One Canopy is already done, it is on the 1st base cooking area. The next one is to be built on the 3rd base side in the box seat area. The other ones are being built in Our Lady of Lourdes Park starting in a few weeks! These canopies have been donated by Ideal Steel!!!

DaddyCajun!!

DaddyCajun,

Will they need help putting up the canopies? If they do, let us know and I will be more than willing to lend a hand.

[DaddyCajun]

They may, several people showed up and helped last time(canopy in the 1st base cooking area)!


Gerald did tell me that a work day or two will be coming up again this Summer, he will give us some heads up!!!


DaddyCajun!!

ps I agree no more seats needed for Cajun Field right now but some may still be added if the Lower level Sky Boxes cut into the student side seating! I am under the impression that it WOULD cut out a certain amount of seats and thus more seating would have to be installed to stay above 30,000 if it is still necessary, by NCAA rules. LOWER LEVEL SKY BOXES ARE ALREADY DRAWING INTEREST TO THE POINT PLANS ARE BEING DRAWN(atleast in talks)!!!
Gerald said, Louisiana wants to be ready for success this go around, in that, when the Cajun Football team turns the corner and turns up the EXCITEMENT in Cajun Land, UL will be ready. Plans to complete the upper level skyboxes on the big side of the field, going left and right from the existing middle skyboxes would be another area of expansion(again when demand is there). These boxes would be presold for multi year contracts which would bring in much needed money to build them and GROW the programs!!!!!!!!!


DaddyCajun!!

[JMV JustMyView]

Everything that includes Cajuns athletics from this point on is exciting me.

[cjr3888]

IdealSteal has some good people. We are in the same industry and have done business with Rickey and Wes while at Southern when we were in a bind and they always helped us out. Much thanks to them.