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re: What do you think LSU's most pressing athletic needs are?
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:39 pm to man in the stadium
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:39 pm to man in the stadium
A new Men's basketball coach. The $14,000,000 spent on the practice facility ain't working. We need a coach, a horse before the cart.
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Posted on 4/14/14 at 2:50 pm to RUKidding
1) Where does the #3 ranked gymnastics team practice? They had the highest regional score in the NCAA and are on track to win a national title. Do they deserve a better home?
2) Men’s swimming is ranked #25. Would a new natatorium help that ranking?
3) Women’s swimming is not ranked at all. Would a new natatorium help?
4) Women’s Soccer is not ranked. Why not?
5) Men’s Golf is not ranked. Why not?
6) Volleyball finished #34. IS that acceptable for an LSU team?
Maybe we need to put money into some of our smaller sports. We also have to look at what will happen if the NCAA decides to pay college athletes. Will some of the smaller sports need to be removed from our campus? How will we pay football players and keep the title IX people happy?
2) Men’s swimming is ranked #25. Would a new natatorium help that ranking?
3) Women’s swimming is not ranked at all. Would a new natatorium help?
4) Women’s Soccer is not ranked. Why not?
5) Men’s Golf is not ranked. Why not?
6) Volleyball finished #34. IS that acceptable for an LSU team?
Maybe we need to put money into some of our smaller sports. We also have to look at what will happen if the NCAA decides to pay college athletes. Will some of the smaller sports need to be removed from our campus? How will we pay football players and keep the title IX people happy?
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:19 pm to Scott Tiger
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Where does the #3 ranked gymnastics team practice? They had the highest regional score in the NCAA and are on track to win a national title. Do they deserve a better home?
Will be built shortly....
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ABOUT THE GYMNASTICS PRACTICE FACILITY
The future home of the LSU Gymnastics team will be a state-of-the-art training and practice facility.
Plans for the new facility call for the following:
Team Locker Room
Training Room
Beam Practice Area
Vaulting Strips with pits
Bar Training area with pits
Floor Exercise and Dance studio
Trampoline Area
Team Squad Room
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Six new facilities are in the works for University Athletics to improve both the campus and student-athlete experience, said Emmett David, associate athletic director of Facility and Project Management.
The final project funded by TAF is a gymnastics facility currently in design. At $8.5 million, the 72,000 square foot structure will be used for practice, David said. Gymnastics meets will continue to be held in the PMAC.
David said construction on the gymnastics facility should begin by August north of the PMAC Practice Facility and east of Carl Maddox Field House.
TAF
The Daily Reveille
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:45 pm to Scott Tiger
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1) Where does the #3 ranked gymnastics team practice? They had the highest regional score in the NCAA and are on track to win a national title. Do they deserve a better home?
They practice in a back room area behind the bleachers in the old run down indoor track field house. They have had great success recruiting talent and having NCAA success and their area is a dump. They achieved success by getting great coaches and the recruits followed. It wasn't the facility, it was the coaches.
And yes, they deserve a new practice facility. They earned it.
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:53 pm to RUKidding
Here's an idea - win a national title in your sport before you demand new facilities. How long did Bertman fight to get that new stadium!
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:57 pm to nicholastiger
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Here's an idea - win a national title in your sport before you demand new facilities. How long did Bertman fight to get that new stadium!
You got it
Posted on 4/14/14 at 4:01 pm to RUKidding
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Here's an idea - win a national title in your sport before you demand new facilities. How long did Bertman fight to get that new stadium!
If softball didn't have the facility they have now they would have not gotten the past 3-5 regional tournaments they have hosted. LSU softball would still be nothing without that new stadium.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 4:02 pm to Scott Tiger
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Here's an idea - win a national title in your sport before you demand new facilities. How long did Bertman fight to get that new stadium!
Come to think of it, using your idea where would the basketball team be playing today?
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 4:13 pm to Scott Tiger
I would think Final Four would qualify men and women to stay in PMAC instead of shipping them back to the cow palace
Posted on 4/14/14 at 4:25 pm to Scott Tiger
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Come to think of it, using your idea where would the basketball team be playing today?
Pete Maravich helped to put LSU on the National map. All American honors in 68,69 and 70. Drafted out of college in 70 and paid the highest salary at the time for a college athlete. Brought LSU to it's first post season tournament play since 1954. The darling team of the 1970 NIT Final Four in New York City.
One year later LSU builds the LSU Assembly Center (later named the PMAC), the house that Pete build. We built the house after the success.
I guess they would be playing in the old Ag Center Building aka "the cow palace".
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 4:37 pm to RUKidding
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A new Men's basketball coach. The $14,000,000 spent on the practice facility ain't working. We need a coach, a horse before the cart.
Troll alert
Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:24 pm to nicholastiger
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Here's an idea - win a national title in your sport before you demand new facilities. How long did Bertman fight to get that new stadium!
Do you realize how long it took the Golden Band from Tigerland to get a new Band Hall after winning the Sudler Trophy?
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2002 – Louisiana State University
LSU's Tiger Band Hall...
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On April 26 (2012), LSU unveiled its new home for "The Golden Band from Tigerland," officially cutting the ribbon on the new Tiger Band Hall facility at an event hosted by the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts.
The 17,740-square-foot complex, located on Aster Street near Highland Road and just beyond the campus' north gates, will be used by for rehearsals by the Tiger Band and the LSU School of Music's entire band area, including the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Winds and Symphonic Band concert groups.
"The new Tiger Band Hall is a welcome addition to support a very visible entity that is closely identified with the spirit, identity, pride and passion of LSU," said Laurence Kaptain, dean of the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts. "This will be the fourth building in the LSU College of Music & Dramatic Arts, and our faculty and students will benefit greatly from the much needed space for storage and rehearsals as well as the teaching, learning and creativity that emanates from our band program and other areas."
Serenaded by members of the Tiger Band performing songs that the LSU community has come to know and love, a host of supporters and campus officials toured the facility during the event, led by members of the band as well as members of the Colorguard and Golden Girls. A luncheon followed the festivities.
The overall cost to construct the facility came in at $8.7 million, with up to $10 million approved by state government for the project, LSU Director of Facility Development Emmett David said. He added that a competitive bid process led to the project coming in under budget, and that unused dollars were returned to the state's general fund.
"The original costs projected in 2007 were more than $10 million dollars, and we are very proud that the Tiger Band Hall came in well under those original budget estimates," Kaptain said. "With the lower construction costs due to the recession, this stands as positive fiscal news in higher education during this difficult time in the nation's economy."
New Orleans architecture firm Howard Performance Architecture designed the complex, and Baton Rouge building contractor firm Percy J. Matherne Contractor Inc. served as the project's general contractor.
LSU Tiger Band
Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:32 pm to Scott Tiger
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2) Men’s swimming is ranked #25. Would a new natatorium help that ranking?
3) Women’s swimming is not ranked at all. Would a new natatorium help?
No.
But we may never find out in this lifetime
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:36 pm to RUKidding
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But we may never find out in this lifetime
I'll start the pool...no pun intended...2016-17 for the announcement by TAF of a new natatorium.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:38 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Beach Volleyball will get a facility before we get a new natatorium.
ESPN money. Sexy sells.
I'll go with 2020 for the new Nat.
ESPN money. Sexy sells.
I'll go with 2020 for the new Nat.
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 5:56 pm to RUKidding
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Beach Volleyball will get a facility before we get a new natatorium.
I bet both are in the same round of TAF improvements...2016-17.
Posted on 4/15/14 at 7:24 am to Scott Tiger
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If softball didn't have the facility they have now they would have not gotten the past 3-5 regional tournaments they have hosted. LSU softball would still be nothing without that new stadium.
Uninformed sheep.
LSU Softball had great success prior to the new facility. That's why they got the thing. They earned it with great coaches, great recruits and great success.
Fact: At the old field they were SEC Champions 8 out of 12 seasons going back to 1997 and had two trips to the College World Series.
Since the new facility opened LSU Softball has only been SEC Champions 1 out of 5 years and one trip to the
College World Series.
By "LSU softball would still be nothing without the new stadium" I can only assume you mean we get more TV time now that we host big tournaments or you are just an uninformed sheep who believes the big lie that a big fancy facility brings success.
This post was edited on 4/15/14 at 9:16 am
Posted on 4/15/14 at 8:21 am to Daigeaux
A new hitting coach.
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