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re: LSU athletics and poorly constructed facilities
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:41 pm to The Hurricane
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:41 pm to The Hurricane
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Tiger Stadium is still the Mecca as far as I am concerned.
The inside being all symmetrical is fantastic, the outside on the other hand is dog shite minus the north end. The West side is an embarrassment, not only is it a terrible design but how did we end up with that brown color scheme? The East side is hidden but it’s bare bones nothing covering the inside of the stadium. If somehow all the way around the stadium matched the North end then Tiger stadium would be the best looking stadium in all of sports.
Can’t forget that huge blank wall on the new SE end
This post was edited on 3/23/21 at 7:42 pm
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Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:41 pm to Big4SALTbro
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shite they even went as far as to capture the spirit of the old box in a big stupid baseball
I remember when Skip opened that ball. God it was so dumb.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:42 pm to Nutriaitch
that is fine, that doesn't excuse the piss poor job we have done in making any updates to the broken pieces of it.
its 12 years in and we have old bleachers, these could have been replaced with chair backs in a offseason in year 10 at least. we have a tarp for a batters eye that could be fixed easy.
so we were the first to jump and everyone created better nicer looking things than us and we have had a decade plus to fix it and we haven't.
its 12 years in and we have old bleachers, these could have been replaced with chair backs in a offseason in year 10 at least. we have a tarp for a batters eye that could be fixed easy.
so we were the first to jump and everyone created better nicer looking things than us and we have had a decade plus to fix it and we haven't.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:43 pm to poncho villa
LOL no, they for the most part suck here in Texas.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:44 pm to hg
the blank wall cracks me up so bad. its just boom nothing at all just a huge fricking wall. We could at least put a pic of big dick Joe on it or something
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:45 pm to The Hurricane
it worked for one year in 09 and then Paul got lazy, stony brook, Houston and Coastal Carolina finished it off
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:47 pm to hg
Wish the NEZ would be redone so that all the rows would line up straight from field to top of stadium.
Still don’t understand why there is a static ad board in the SEZ that differs from all other ribbon boards above it. The outside of the stadium looks like Frankenstein and nothing matches. There is way too much dead space that is underutilized.
People will downvote this, but Alabama has the best stadium from an aesthetics standpoint. It’s all symmetrical inside and out. Everything matches and works well with backdrops on campus.
Still don’t understand why there is a static ad board in the SEZ that differs from all other ribbon boards above it. The outside of the stadium looks like Frankenstein and nothing matches. There is way too much dead space that is underutilized.
People will downvote this, but Alabama has the best stadium from an aesthetics standpoint. It’s all symmetrical inside and out. Everything matches and works well with backdrops on campus.
This post was edited on 3/23/21 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:54 pm to Big4SALTbro
quote:You seem to believe all of the bleachers in the new Alex Box Stadium were brought over from the old Box.
then they brought over the old bleachers and put them in
The only bleachers from the old Box are the left field bleachers behind the out field fence.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:55 pm to The Hurricane
I think they took time to get it to match or maybe they did a full renovation instead of our piece meal where we built each piece separate. I haven’t been to bama in a decade but if memory serves me correctly they have a little more space to work with than we do when constructing which probably has some impact. It also helps when your AD isn’t a clown car for decades at a time
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:57 pm to LSURussian
Maybe it was a bit of a stretch saying old bleachers for it but it’s clear we designed the new box to mirror the old box pretty closely just with upgrades.
It’s good we got the players the best stuff it’s just frustrating to not make it a fan friendly experience in 12 years and for it to be barreling toward the bottom half of the league
It’s good we got the players the best stuff it’s just frustrating to not make it a fan friendly experience in 12 years and for it to be barreling toward the bottom half of the league
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:58 pm to Big4SALTbro
quote:The preference of many LSU Alums and Fans.
You either have to stay in the old building and make updates to keep the mystique and cool history.
Why not duplicate and extend the Grandstand all the way down the lines, while modernizing and renovating the entire facility?
Posted on 3/23/21 at 7:59 pm to TigerFanNKaty
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LOL no, they for the most part suck here in Texas.
You are high off your a-hole brother. Texas has the best commercial and residential contractors in the US
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:03 pm to semjase
I think the issue with that was the locker room updates. I don’t think they would have had room to do the things they did with the old box. The train tracks hem you in down the left field line and behind the plate and the road on the right and outfield.
Perhaps they could have built cages and a players locker room lounge in left field if you tore down the old apartments.
I’m not sure how much construction could have been done to the old.
The issue was they rebuilt the new to be a nicer version of the old one but then failed to update and now it’s probably 6 or 7 in the league
Perhaps they could have built cages and a players locker room lounge in left field if you tore down the old apartments.
I’m not sure how much construction could have been done to the old.
The issue was they rebuilt the new to be a nicer version of the old one but then failed to update and now it’s probably 6 or 7 in the league
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:03 pm to Big4SALTbro
They for the most part stayed within the same structure, I think the problem with LSU lies in that a lot of the structure was built on the dorms and it would be a huge undertaking to fix. Bama also doesnt have to worry about powers that be not being on the same page, have hit home runs on ADs and a constant cash flow that spends money to stay atop the mountain.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:10 pm to hg
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The inside being all symmetrical is fantastic, the outside on the other hand is dog shite minus the north end. The West side is an embarrassment, not only is it a terrible design but how did we end up with that brown color scheme? The East side is hidden but it’s bare bones nothing covering the inside of the stadium. If somehow all the way around the stadium matched the North end then Tiger stadium would be the best looking stadium in all of sports.
I get the sentiment about the rest of the stadium matching the north, being that that’s the best looking part, but unfortunately that would be hard to accomplish. It’s like some of y’all don’t understand that the upper decks jut OUT from the lower bowl. Incorporating some kind of arch design would look weird since the decks are so tall. Which is why, IMO, the south upper looks like a complete clusterfrick. I’m convinced Joe Alleva read this board and saw “arches! We need more arches!” and told the architects to include that into the design. Now nothing matches. I honestly don’t mind the west side. I just think they should have chosen better materials. Maybe marble or something over that ugly lego looking shite. Different style of louvers. And they need to hide all that fireproofing and steel beams underneath.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:11 pm to The Hurricane
It’s sad because we could have all that but our system is corrupt and our govs ruin everything and our AD hires have been subpar.
It is frustrating because LSU athletics has plenty of money and the ability to stay on top of the mountain but we don’t.
I wouldn’t mind if we made the outside of the stadium all look like the east side dorms if we could clean them up. I think the Roman look at it had before on the outside was nice. We could spruce up around it.
It is frustrating because LSU athletics has plenty of money and the ability to stay on top of the mountain but we don’t.
I wouldn’t mind if we made the outside of the stadium all look like the east side dorms if we could clean them up. I think the Roman look at it had before on the outside was nice. We could spruce up around it.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:18 pm to Big4SALTbro
The NEZ is by far the best and I understand that it’s difficult to replicate because it would require rebuilding both the East and west sides. The East side is actually not a bad shot when they have it in the background of aerial shots.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:28 pm to Big4SALTbro
quote:You’re not entirely wrong about that. Skip caught a lot of grief from his money supporters when he finally made the decision to abandon the old Box and build a new one.
but it’s clear we designed the new box to mirror the old box pretty closely just with upgrades.
A lot, and I do mean A LOT, of season ticket holders in the old Box along with big donors wanted Skip to just expand and upgrade the old stadium but there just wasn’t enough room to do it squeezed between the railroad tracks and Nicholson Dr. They had fond memories and nostalgia for the old stadium and felt betrayed when Skip announced it would be abandoned and eventually torn down.
He tried to pacify them by promising some aspects of the old Box would be incorporated into the new stadium, such as some bleachers would be moved to the new stadium. Skip also promised them a bronze plaque would be placed on the ground approximately where home plate was in the old Box. I know Skip kept that promise because I saw it once when I parked in the parking lot that occupied that area (before the new nutrition building was built there) for one football game.
His schtick with opening the big hollow baseball during the new Box’s opening ceremony was part of his way of winning over the doubters. I know it sounds stupid now but for many of Skip’s original supporters who were on-board with him even before the CWS championships started rolling in, it was traumatic abandoning the original Alex Box Stadium.
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:32 pm to The Hurricane
quote:Which building are you talking about?
Tiger Stadium atmosphere is second to none, but the building itself could use a hell of a lot of upgrades.
Tiger Stadium North.
TS South?
TS East?
TS West?
They all look different.
I like the aesthetics of the North End, not so much the South (The "Great White Wall of Nothing" is an eyesore) and West. The East Side is an embarrassing eyesore.
Still waiting for Woodward to do something, anything at all of substance.
The interior of the stadium is fine, outside of the recent lethargy of tacky permanent ads that have gone up.
If I'm the AD, there will be ads only on the scoreboard playback screen and the digital advertising board. They will scroll during pre-game, half-time, time outs and quarter breaks. There will not be any tacky permanent advertising anywhere in the stadium........
Posted on 3/23/21 at 8:35 pm to The Hurricane
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The Box at its infancy was the best and then it quickly was lapped.
Opened the same year as South Carolina's park. USC's is a nice park and its not really close.
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