re: Outfield environment like State, Ole Miss and Ark; do LSU admins not want that??

I seem to recall in the early plans for the new box they were going to build a berm in the outfield. Not sure what the real reason for them doing away with it but it was disappointing.

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whats the reason for not

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Joe Alleva

I know they get $ for it but take it down and don't charge them next year.

A weight room is being added to the existing batting cages in right field.

There’s so many cheap things they could do to the Box to greatly improve it.

When I say cheap I mean things that would be inexpensive for a school like LSU. You can take those outfield bleachers and push them back and have the bull pens in front of them, you would just have to mess with the parking slightly. In right field you could probably just push the bleachers over and not have to worry about the parking lot at all.

Down the first and third base like take out the awful bleachers and put actual seats. No one would even expect the padded seats like you get behind the plate. Just regular seats. Not only would this make the box look nicer, but I think it would attract more people if they didn’t have to worry about their asses hurting 20 minutes into the game.

So true, we need to start putting pressure on the admin

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I dont understand how someone responsible for Alex Box would just say frick it lets store all the shite behind the fence where everyone can see it.

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Completely anecdotally, I’ve found that people who are over baseball fields are ritualistically obsessed with the grass, keeping the lines straight, making sure that the dirt on the infield is raked and watered down, etc. and not so much with making sure that anything out of the playing area is squared away, and it only gets worse as the fields they’re overseeing get nicer. Our playing field itself is immaculate and I’m sure the person whose job it is to store the equipment literally could not give a shite less about the fans seeing his equipment lol. It’d be nice if our upper leadership was detail oriented enough to take care of things like that, but sadly I don’t think they are

It could also serve as a really cool and real world project for the students in design, engineering etc.( Joe that’s code for cheap child labor)

It's definitely time for some improvements.
A permanent batter's eye is first on the list. That tarp draping thing looks cheap.

It's time to start putting some more chairback seats down the lines.

Alleva complains about not being allowed to serve alcohol yet A&M, Ole Miss and Miss St all have sections where it is flowing freely at baseball games. You could definitely do something in the outfield sections.

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Nothing has changed since the stadium was opened anywhere else, except for the addition of the right field bleachers.

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They didn't have all the suites installed yet when it was first opened.