re: Alex Box Renovations

It’ll NEVER be done in time.

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Also there will be locker/shower room just for former LSU baseball players who are in professional baseball. Those former players will be able to use the workout room in the off season and will have a place to shower and change clothes with an assigned locker space for them with their picture above their locker. Mainieri said he's planning on using that "professional" locker room as an additional recruiting tool when recruits visit the Box.

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Waste of money. Improve the lacking fan experience.

As I said in the other thread

It was time to renovate or move on from the Old Box but it was a few years before SEC programs began the big push on new baseball stadiums. LSU went first and a bunch of schools followed after with nicer stadiums.

In the classic Skip Bertman style the Box was designed cheap. It needed chairs down the lines. And not the raggedy arse old left field bleachers from the Old Box LSU moved over because they claimed the fans in those sections wanted them moved over.

Key phrase is “static advertising.” They could easily put an ad as part of the stat display and it all disappears when there is a replay. In that scenario, the ad(s) would still be there a majority of the time.

If you think LSU is going to expand a space that attracts eyeballs and not attempt to make some money with a few ads, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas I’d like to sell you.

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As for the current box:
-"Baseball at the Box" back on the press box
-Chair back the entire stadium
-Permanent batter's eye
-Flags of all conference teams (Arranged in standings order )
-Enclose the back of the grandstand
-Create a concourse that goes all the way down the lines to match the grandstand
-Work on some sort of public parking across Gourrier to recreate the tailgating atmosphere that existed along Skip Bertman Dr. with the old box. Always said they could have done this with that scrap yard next to u-high's field.

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solid ideas.

The berm is absolutely overrated and why would we want to copy anything from ole miss? I get the stands aren’t the best, but let’s figure something out that reflects our university.

Gray Tiger, most of these Nimrods on the Rant are oblivious to reality. Let's go back to the Joe Dean days when LSU resisted Corporate Sponsors and ads.

You remember back when Jumpin' Joe hired Curley Hallman, then fukced up the Pat Sullivan hire by not paying his puny buyout to TCU, then had to go "hat in hand" to Gerry Dinardo to fill the LSU position?

Back then LSU was losing top coordinators like Carl Reese to Texas for a whopping 100k. After 4 years at LSU, Dinardo's staff pay was only the 8th highest in the SEC (12 team SEC).
He had one Hell of a time keeping a staff or hiring replacements because of the money restrictions of Joe Dean.

Let's return to that era? No thanks.

By the way, today LSU's football staff is the #1 highest paid staff in the country.

Long story short. Let the idiots on the Rant bitch. Most of them are too young to remember past 8 to 10 years ago. Lol.

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kentucky's brand new stadium has a pro style bullpen. it makes the box look amateurish in that regard.

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F that... am I the only one who loves to shite talk the visiting bullpen between innings?

I feel they should improve the PA system. The music sounds terrible

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Maybe one day they will add more chairback seating down the lines

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This is how I feel waiting for more chairback seats....