re: PMAC question

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the functionality and accommodations of the PMAC, doesn’t work

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Why not? LSU is able to plays games there with no issue and it is still small enough there are really no bad seats.

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oday’s facilities houses everything under one roof - just as the football facility does.

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The football facility doesn't house where the team actually plays the games. So what you are really saying is that and all in one basketball facility could be built and attached to the PMAC. To that, I agree. I thought LSU went very cheap and lazy with the current basketball practice facility. In fact, Wade's biggest push was NOT for a new PMAC. It was for a new practice facility.

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As a season ticket holder, it’s needed.

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As a season ticket holder as well, it's not.

This stadium was built in 1940. It has no luxury suites and in quite small. They don't have trouble filing it because of "poor facilities".



This stadium was opened in 1965. Again, no luxury suites are tremendous amenities. It seems to be fine...



Same for this place opened in 1955. Their program is doing ok despite an "out dated" facility.



No IN NO WAY AM I TRYING TO SAY LSU's program is, historically, on par with Duke, UCLA or Kansas. The point is that the arena really has little effect on the success of the program. If LSU were winning, the PMAC would be fine...and full. People aren't staying home because the PMAC "sucks". They are staying home because the men's program has been wildly inconsistent for the better part of 30 years. Building a new arena might give you a temporary bump in attendance. But it won't be sustained if the program isn't winning. Ask Ole Miss and South Carolina.

We are in a new era of college sports. The facilities "arms race" was the former way to entice recruits because the schools couldn't "pay" the players. Today, the players really don't give a shite about the facilities. They want their NIL money. If you don't believe me, that's fine. But Will Wade, who beat the drum as loudly as anyone for facility upgrades at LSU, was asked if there was only so much money to be allocated to either NIL or facilities where would he want it to go? His answer: "NIL. If not, you're going to have a bunch of MMMF (Mid-Major Mother F--kers) getting their brains beat in a really nice, and empty, arena"