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re: With the hiring of Wade, its time the PMac is replaced as well
Posted on 3/21/17 at 1:03 pm to junkfunky
Posted on 3/21/17 at 1:03 pm to junkfunky
It is sad when your baseball team has more suites than your basketball team. Basketball is the #2 money maker. People who say no investment is needed are clueless. College sports is an arms race. The facility does matter when it comes to recruiting. It also matters when it comes to corporate support. Suites and premium seating provides teams with revenue to have bigger recruiting budgets and to pay more to retain their coaches.
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Posted on 3/21/17 at 1:08 pm to mitchleger
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It is sad when your baseball team has more suites than your basketball team. Basketball is the #2 money maker. People who say no investment is needed are clueless. College sports is an arms race. The facility does matter when it comes to recruiting. It also matters when it comes to corporate support. Suites and premium seating provides teams with revenue to have bigger recruiting budgets and to pay more to retain their coaches.
how do you incorporate suites into the PMAC? I'm fully on board for suites, but i think the amount of money it would cost to do it...you might as well start from scratch.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 1:43 pm to b rod lsu
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Yeah - I'm anti a $100M project. If I alluded to that above, than I apologize.
No problem, I was just going off of Auburn's new $86 million dollar, 10,000 seat arena as the cost to actually replace the PMAC.
I remember sitting in the Tad Pad to watch a game while it was raining, and the roof leaked. That place needed replacing.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 1:56 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
I think the atmosphere went to shite when the student section got moved to the baseline on one side, with very few seats actually close to the court. The place was rockin back before LSU put in the high dollar, single row of courtside seats that are 10 yards away from any other seat behind them. Put the student section back at midcourt right behind where the announcers sit and the students will return and start to get raucous in the PMAC again.
This post was edited on 3/21/17 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 3/21/17 at 2:01 pm to tigerbait3488
Yeah it's not like LSU is broke or anything
Posted on 3/21/17 at 2:01 pm to lowhound
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I think if the atmosphere went to shite when the student section got moved to the baseline on one side, with very few seats actually close to the court. The place was rockin back before LSU put in the high dollar, single row of courtside seats that are 10 yards away from any other seat behind them. Put the student section back at midcourt right behind where the announcers sit and the students will return and start to get raucous in the PMAC again.
That +1
Posted on 3/21/17 at 2:06 pm to tigerbait3488
It' not the PMac- It's playing winning Basketball !!
Posted on 3/21/17 at 3:16 pm to LSUDAN1
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Collis Temple,
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has zero access to the new coach.
I agree 1000000000%
Posted on 3/21/17 at 3:28 pm to The Cool No 9
If a future decision is made to renovate the PMAC or to pursue a new basketball facility, I would hope the TAF could greatly assist in this effort.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 4:12 pm to tigerbait3488
the arena doesn't matter. Start winning and the place will be full and loud and we'll love it again.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 5:07 pm to tigerbait3488
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With the hiring of Wade, its time the PMac is replaced as well
If he wins a national championship, maybe. Besides, if we ever have any aspirations of adding an upper deck to the north end zone of Tiger Stadium, we'll have to, because there's not room right now with the PMAC right there.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 5:10 pm to Machine
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how do you incorporate suites into the PMAC? I'm fully on board for suites, but i think the amount of money it would cost to do it...you might as well start from scratch.
Maybe you could take out the top several rows of seats on one or both sides. It would cut total capacity, but that's not really an issue anyway. I have no idea whether that's even architecturally possible, though. Not sure where they would put the private access, and suite holders probably wouldn't want to have to mingle with the commoners while climbing stairs to the top to reach their suites.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 5:18 pm to Nuts4LSU
Leave the PMAC for all sports except MBB. Build a new, state-of-the-art arena just to the east of Nicholson Drive. Don't make the capacity smaller, though, as we can sell 13K tickets to support a good program. Heck, we sold 13K tickets several times last season for a bad program with one star.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 5:29 pm to tigerbait3488
We need to remodel the interior and make the seating steeper. The seats go way too far back. And please for the love of god move the student section. It's aids. And if you can't move that then at least move the god damn media section somewhere else
Posted on 3/21/17 at 7:05 pm to Tiger Nation 84
Agreed...upgrade the exterior of PMAC so that the architecture works with TS & the LSU campus in general. It probably can't be updated to include suites without significantly impacting seating capacity. Maybe we should average 10k+ actual before talking about building something new. If/when that time comes, that would be a good problem.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 7:16 pm to Darth Aranda
The PMAC was renovated in 2005. They put in the purple seats, removed a few seats, a new video screen, new roof.. That's 12 years ago but not really that long ago in terms of how renovation projects are. LSU is probably a long way away from changing anything about the PMAC structurally.. inside or out.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 8:13 pm to BayouBengals03
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The inside configuration of the PMAC is garbage. Seats too far from the court. Press row is in a retarded spot. Stupid to have tables set up on both sidelines. Student section retractable bleachers take up too much room.
Yeah the current setup absolutely is garbage. In my last year there the student section was much closer. The front row of it was directly behind the second row of press tables.
I sat in that front row for most of the games in Chris Jackson's freshman year, and was there on the night that the configuration was doomed. UF, with the big ugly Dwayne Schintzius (RIP), who had previously been accused of assaulting a guy with a tennis racket, leading to tennis balls being thrown by opposing students at away games. LSU officials did say ahead of the game that that wouldn't be tolerated. The Gators won and won the SEC as a result, right there on our court. It was a tight game that got HEATED at the end. Gator players were taunting the student section (I know, what a shock) once the outcome was no longer in doubt, led by Schintzius. And of course we responded in kind. Well add to the equation tennis balls finally being tossed onto the court, and that was all she wrote.
The reaction by the Athletic Department was absurd. Total overreaction. Starting the very next season the student section seats were moved back and a disabled seating area was inserted between the students and the second media row. I actually did go to a couple of December games in 89-90 season and it was awful. Totally different. Horrible knee-jerk solution that screwed the students and help rob the PMAC of a certain degree of intensity in the environment by moving them further away from the court.
Posted on 3/21/17 at 10:49 pm to tigersbh
It may look silly for some building built in the 70's, but I think we are fortunate that the PMAC aged somewhat well in style. I'm reminded of this thought everyday I drive to work this POS septic tank that host UT BB:
Posted on 3/22/17 at 5:11 am to pellietigersaint
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I'm so sick of this commentary. gtfo with this bull shite. it needs some nurturing, it is a nice arena. quit looking at others peoples shiny shite you ungrateful douche
Geez. Calm down there big guy. We're mostly happy with our shitty arena.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 5:38 am to Nix to Twillie
Everything about the 1970s was ugly. Just look at the Superdomw as well.
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