re: Top 3 Changes to Tiger Stadium...

Why would anyone want to get rid of the Jumotrons?

Hell, they need to be bigger.

Chain link fence looks like a high school stadium. Replace it with wrought iron, brick, etc.

Ugly windows have already been addressed. Stadium is now 8th largest on campus venue. Start making plans for next expansion.

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3. Seatbacks on all seats

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I hate those aluminum benches I've sat on for 30 straight years. Kills my back.

return the SEZ bathrooms to the original pisswall configuration. the urinal, drywall, etc that someone said made things nicer, actually cut down substantially on the capacity of the bathrooms. plus, have a clear entrance and exit. the way it stands now, there's lines at both doors that each extend out so far that they reach the next women's restrooms -- which have no line.

plus better jumbotrons

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1. Tear down the south scoreboard. and Add 3 levels of Suits with room for general seating expansion in the future.
(but do not connect it with the east or west. since the east and west are different i think it'd look stupid, so make it like Bryant-denny.)

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They're not different. We tore down the West a few years ago to match the other side on a structural standpoint. If you see the overhead views during our games, they look the same from above even thought he ramps are different on the outside. Connecting them is the point and would look a lot cooler than Bryant Denny's separate look IMO.

Connecting them would add too many seats and the demand isn't there, capacity would be close to 115k if you connected both uppers. But my plan would be:

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Make the digital billboards run the length of the upper deck and all the way along the area between the south lower and south upper. Not sure if anyone knows what I'm talking about, but those billboards should run the entire length.

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This, looks really cool at night


TS is in desperate need of a much louder, higher quality sound system. The one we have sounds like a HS game.

I would also convert the entire stadium to charbacks, and pull up the bleachers in the SS and just leave it concrete.

Add a third upper deck in the SEZ with three levels of suites underneath it. Have it to where the new upper sect is seperate from the two existing ones, but connect the concourses with bridges. This would put the capacity at just over 100k

in the two corners between the three upperdecks I would put decent size jumbotrons with a digital scoreboard along the lower railing of the upperdeck above the south ez goal posts.

On the exterior of the new expansion I would dress it up with a fancy exterior with alot of brick and glass. On the inside you could have a nice concourse that fans could enjoy before the game. Make it huge with a big open atrium, with many lounges, tables, hundreds of TV's, retail food outlets, shops, cafe's, etc. Also put a nice sports bar and restaurant on the top level of the suites with one side looking down onto the field and the other looking down into the atrium at the concourse. On the ground outside turn it into a parl like area with fountains, statues, championship flags, trees, benches etc. Would be extremely nice and could be a huge money maker for LSU.


Also add artificial turf

No standing? You can't be serious...

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On the exterior of the new expansion I would dress it up with a fancy exterior with a lot of brick and glass.

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I hope you didn't graduate from architecture school.

Instead, stick with the same materials already on the UW expansion go give the stadium some continuity. Otherwise you a mish-mash of materials with no common thread to tie them together and looks like some kind of collision.

1. Tiger Band moved back to the Northwest corner.
2. No more piped in music and Tiger band plays a helluva lot more.
3. More of the visiting fans moved to the upper deck and the South End Zone gets reclaimed by what were once the rowdiest fans in Tiger Stadium (yep, that goes back about 20 years).