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re: Why did the new box get built so generic?
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:04 pm to ChEgrad
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:04 pm to ChEgrad
quote:If you look deep enough you’ll see that many, if not all, of these things are connected.
Players care about their practice, training, locker room facilities and if there are plenty of fans, but they don’t care about luxury boxes and concessions and chair-back seats.
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Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:09 pm to Jack Daniel
They should have kept the stadium in the original location. I like it so much more.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:15 pm to DiamondDog
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They should have kept the stadium in the original location. I like it so much more.
They tore it down for RV Parking
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:26 pm to chalmetteowl
Lots of fond memories from the old box. I don’t really have any with the new stadium. Kind of has a “lick and stick” feel. Just generic.
Really highlights the haves and have nots with the divided seating.
With the old box, everyone sat on a hard arse bleacher. The grandstand seats were some of the most uncomfortable and hot seats in the house.
Best seats in old box for me was 3rd base line just past the base top row. Marvelous.
I don’t even have a favorite section in the new box. Left field I suppose?
Really highlights the haves and have nots with the divided seating.
With the old box, everyone sat on a hard arse bleacher. The grandstand seats were some of the most uncomfortable and hot seats in the house.
Best seats in old box for me was 3rd base line just past the base top row. Marvelous.
I don’t even have a favorite section in the new box. Left field I suppose?
This post was edited on 6/22/21 at 10:27 pm
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:30 pm to Jack Daniel
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The best thing about the old Box is how you always felt you were on top of the action.
To me, the biggest fault of new Alex Box Stadium is the distance from the foul lines and the angle that the seats are pitched. In the old stadium, the seats were right up over home plate and the dugouts. The design created a cavern, of sorts, for the noise.
One of my pet peeves is the full-color signage on the outfield walls. It looks terrible, cheap. Like the ballparks in the minor leagues. (and at Minute Maid...why, Astros, why?)
LSU could mandate no full-color billboards on the outfield walls. Just make them all green, with the advertising messages uniformly in white.
At the time the new Alex Box was built, it was rightly hailed as one of the best in the nation. But other schools came along later, spent more and built better. We don't even have the best stadium in the SEC West any more.
While other schools were spending on stadiums, LSU was adding the amenities that have helped in recruiting -- the locker room, players lounge, batting facility.
We don't need a four-story apartment building in left field, like that thing in Starkville.
This post was edited on 6/22/21 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:35 pm to Jack Daniel
It’s not pretty, at all
Posted on 6/23/21 at 12:12 am to WhiteGramblingGrad72
quote:All Purple all the way around and nothing behind home plate except for the LSU logo, Tiger Eye and SEC logo.......
MAKE THEM ALL PURPLE! And make the outfield wall purple too without the ads
Posted on 6/23/21 at 1:14 am to nicholastiger
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it had more bells and whistles on the drawing board and then Katrina hit and the costs skyrocketed and they had to scale it down.
Correct. During fundraising Skip expected other things. The berm was scrapped, according to Skip at the time, due to poor LA soil needing to be packed and settle for a long period to meet safety requirements and the associated cost overrun to do that. Several features, including the big weight room and top quality indoor facility were either eliminated or scaled down due to lack of available funds. South LA was impacted substantially by Katrina and hurt the fundraising effort. No reason, other than that stated at the time.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 6:31 am to Choupique19
I remember Skip’s speech at the dedication. He harped on about having asked the fans for input as to what they wanted in the new Box.
“You wanted the bullpens on the field, so we did that.”
“You wanted a roof. Roofs are expensive.”
“You wanted the bullpens on the field, so we did that.”
“You wanted a roof. Roofs are expensive.”
Posted on 6/23/21 at 6:44 am to Slippy
Get rid of the stupid planet sign. Build a berm out there all the way to where the bleachers start in RF... and make a decked/ roofed lounge somewhere in that corner like the chute in Death Valley. (Where the flooring is well above the fence so full view of game
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 6:47 am
Posted on 6/23/21 at 7:53 am to Damone
So more wasted $ by a government entity?
Posted on 6/23/21 at 7:58 am to LongTime Tiger
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The berm was scrapped, according to Skip at the time, due to poor LA soil needing to be packed and settle for a long period to meet safety requirements and the associated cost overrun to do that
Yet they didn't even have the foresight to see that it doesn't have to be an actual berm. State and Ark don't have Berms, they just have decks
so instead LSU does nothing and just puts up crappy bleachers
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:03 am to Jack Daniel
Now that beer sales are available, the outfield needs a sports bar type of setting. Almost make it look like a two tier Topgolf in the outfield
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:06 am to chalmetteowl
quote:
They tore it down for RV Parking
No they didn’t. There are 6 massive dorm buildings,
a shopping center/restaurant/grocery store, and the LSU foundation building on the old box footprint.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:13 am to Pahnew
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Now that beer sales are available, the outfield needs a sports bar type of setting. Almost make it look like a two tier Topgolf in the outfield
That would be incredible
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:16 am to Indefatigable
quote:when was that built?
No they didn’t. There are 6 massive dorm buildings,
a shopping center/restaurant/grocery store, and the LSU foundation building on the old box footprint.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:31 am to Jack Daniel
It was meant to be a larger, fresher version of the old box. No more, no less.
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:35 am to tigerbait3488
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They should have built a berm at least in the outfield.
Yeah, that’ll really stand out. No one else has one of those.
Know the only thing that looks cheaper than the outfield bleachers?
Dirt.
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 8:36 am
Posted on 6/23/21 at 8:38 am to chalmetteowl
Over the last 5-6 years.
Is your gotcha going to be that RV’s were allowed to park in the gravel lot between the demolition of the old box and the start of new construction?
Is your gotcha going to be that RV’s were allowed to park in the gravel lot between the demolition of the old box and the start of new construction?
This post was edited on 6/23/21 at 8:38 am
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