re: Gerry Lane Championship Plaza

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This isn't Arkansas. Putting a car salesman's name prominently on something like this, when he had absolutely nothing to do with those championships or even the program in general, seems to go against the norm for naming anything at LSU

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HE PAID FOR THE frickING THING.

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Dude, your list sucks. All that you listed were performance venues. This thing isn't. I'm guessing he paid for it. Presumably, you'd be happier if it didn't exist.

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not mention his list includes a plethora of venues built at a state university using state money to build ... i guarantee you, if someone wrote the AD a check for $100 million to build a new basketball arena .. their name would be on it ... does this guy understand how much LSU depends on private donations ?

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Great that they can pony up and give but I would not want my name on this if I were him.

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It isn't him. Its his business.

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the only reason he supports lsu is bc of it's market in baton rouge.

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an amazing concept used by a good businessman .. imagine that ! and exactly what would tulane put in the "gerry lane championship plaza" in front of turchin stadium ? conference usa tourney plaques ?

I wish I had a ton of money so I could donate for something right outside of tiger sdadium and have my name on it as big as possible.

I don't think the people complaining about it are madmthat he donated it, just that his name is the most prominent thing on the structure. Why not "the LSU circle if champions" and in smaller font something like "presented by Gerry lane".

I think it looks too commercialized (for lack of a better term).

The baseball team is 7-0......i guess people have to find SOMETHING to bitch about?

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maybe. Definitely would not have done it like that. Visiting fans are probably thinking he was a former coach or player.

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right. this is why i would rather it was done differently.

the cox communications academic center is clearly not named after a single person and probably wouldn't be confused for that. and 90% of the casual fans (even lsu ones) don't know about it. but pretty much everyone (or at least a good percentage) that goes to baseball games see the gerry lane circle of champions.

note: WE'RE NOT ARKANSAS OR THE NFL OR BOWL GAMES.

because he paid for the whole thing, coon, and he donates a boat load of money to LSU and has been for years with little or no recognition for it ... this is just big time college athletics today .. the cost of amenities and doing business has just far exceeded what the schools can squeeze out of we fans, so they have to look at the corporate sector for money ... having one's name on something is about the best selling point a school has for getting them to write them a check ... personally .. i wonder how much the thing really cost and why TAF couldn't have just done it with monies collected from the baseball tradition fund personally ... i am not arguing the point that it does look a little strange up there .. i am just discussing why it is up there ..

Count me in the group that thinks it is cheesy as hell and cheapens Alex Box. I would certainly prefer that the Circle of Champions not exist over the Gerry Lane Used Car World of Champions.