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My question is this...why was the west upper deck taken down because of a slope difference compared to the east upper if there isn't going to be a south upper deck connecting them? granted, i like both upper decks looking the same, but that was a huge cost...for nothing. am i right?

I totally agree, that was a major project in 2005 to tear down and rebuild the relatively new (1978) West upper deck to match the East upper deck (built 2000). If the plan was to not fully enclose the South end zone, then the East upper should have just been built to match the original West upper (1978).

How can we possibly not have demand for more regular seating for most games? Shouldn't the season ticket waiting list, student demand and SEC visitors be good for at least another 5 - 10 thousand more regular seats.

I totally see the need for additional club and suite capacity. It just seems more cost effective to go ahead and include a decent (i.e. more than 1500) amount of new regular seats in this expansion.

$500 per seat (per season) times 10,000 seats yields a 15 year payoff straight up on $75,000,000 cost for the "regular seat" portion of the project, add some interest, overruns and maintenance and it goes to about 20 years.

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Posted by Brinner

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Member since May 2008

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Posted on 3/15/12 at 10:01 am to SwatMitchell

Looks like shite just like the exterior of the west side.

A buddy of mine did renderings for TAF of a fully enclosed section. It looked nice and would have kept the sound in. I'm wondering if i should post the pics since they didn’t get selected.

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Posted by LSUray

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Posted on 3/15/12 at 10:12 am to SwatMitchell

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totally agree, that was a major project in 2005 to tear down and rebuild the relatively new (1978) West upper deck to match the East upper deck (built 2000). If the plan was to not fully enclose the South end zone, then the East upper should have just been built to match the original West upper (1978).

The purpose of rebuilding the West upper had little to do with matching the east. Do you really think they would spend all of that money just so the decks looked alike? The purpose of redoing the West was to redo the antiquate press box and add the Stadium Club, which brings in a ton of revenue. It was designed and built to match the East because it made sense, just in case you potentially wanted to tie them together. Nowhere ever has TAF or LSU said they would fully connect the horseshoe. People have only made that assumption.

BTW, everyone here is freaking out over some photoshop mock ups made by somebody on Tigerdroppings. Why don't you all wait and see what the actual design looks like.