re: Alex Box Upgrade Rendering

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Are chair back seats some incredible expense? I’m starting to get really pissed off at our high school seating situation in places that aren’t occupied by the old people that will never sell. It’s uncomfortable as frick to sit in that place and the food fricking sucks.

Omaha showed me the light. I was spoiled at Charles Schwab/TD Ameritrade/Rosenblatt/Polo Grounds. I was able to see what a stadium focused on the fans was all about. We play baseball in a place that caters to nickel-and-diming us to death.

LSU can’t get out of its own way in the modern frick the fans era.

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It's like LSU is desperately trying to hang on to some of the rinky-dink aspects of the old Alex Box Stadium for purposes of "nostalgia".

The old Box was built at a time when absolutely no one cared about college baseball. Very few people attended the games. Thus, there was no need to sink significant resources into the infrastructure.

That is not the case now. For all intents and purposes, LSU is Baton Rouge's minor league baseball team. Games are events people want to attend. Especially now coming off a National Championship. No one is arguing the stadium needs to be torn down and rebuilt. Just fix some of the cheap aspects...most notably the bleachers down the line...and give the stadium some degree of character. LSU likes to call itself the "home of college baseball". Except, they had DH Horton build the "home". It's functional, but wholly unremarkable.