re: Will Wade wants to play a game in the Cow Palace

I agree with this.

I live 8 hours away and I’d still drive in to town to see a game in Cow Palace if it happened. Even on a workday.

I’m too young to have seen a game there so I’d love the opportunity. Plus the Cow Palace was one of my favorite places to take a dump as a student so it holds a special place in my heart. The bathrooms were always pretty clean and nobody else ever goes in there. There’s some old graffiti in those stalls so it’s like a little museum.

Gonna need some details George.

I mean, it’s old and creaky. So is Tiger Stadium. What makes the Cow Palace so bad?

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But... what is the Cow Palace?

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Its the place where Pete Maravich broke the all time scoring record in college basketball.

With smaller seating capacity students ahd to line up by mid afternoon for a 7:30 game tobe assured of entry.

Other than Kentucky the SouthernCal game in December of 1969 was the most high profile game that year. Thousands of students were unable to get into the bilding that evening.

This was before all of the TV coverageand most teams only hd 3 or 4 games televised . LSU might have gotten a few more due to Maravich but nothing like today where ll games are broadcast.

Thank you for bringing info on recruiting

Please relay a message to Alleva:
tell him we cannot wait until he resigns so we can find a competent AD who will hire a legitimate football coach. Also, please tell him to quit pissing Will Wade off bc he's the one good coach Alleva can somewhat take credit for hiring.

He needs to worry about why his recruiting only football coach can't get a DL commit to save his arse and leave Wade alone.

There was a thread here about that a few years back, something to try to bring some sort of excitement to the comatose hoops fan base. Many said no way the building was not up for it.

I don't think WW believes in "No Way".

Nobody went to the games there before Maravich showed up, and now everyone wants to go to a game there. Strange.

I used to work at the PMAC putting the floor down and picking it up and moving the court wouldn't be that big of a deal IMO. It breaks down into 4'x8' sections that weigh about 200-250lbs each. They could easily for lift them onto a truck and move them to the cow palace.

It normally takes about an hour to break down the court or put it down. It would definitely take upwards of 5 hours or so to get it to the palace but that isn't an insurmountable issue IMO.

Got that right Carrollton. The place filled for the Freshman game and just about empty for the varsity. I felt so bad that they were disrespected so badly, that I would stay.

I THINK that I can still smell that place.

Fun to think about.

I honestly think if you had the Cow Palace Classic meaning you put 3 instate teams in Friday Sunday games.

Something like this

Friday 5:00/7:30
ULL vs. Southeastern
LSU vs. Tulane

Sunday 2:00/4:30
Tulane vs. Southeastern
LSu vs. ULL

I think you could sell out 10,000 for the package for fans to see those two games easy, and it would bring a ton of excitement and Tulane/ULL are getting there programs better. I love the appreciation Wade has for history he talked about it when he took the job. Its the little things like this that infuriate me with Alleva (just one of many issues) what would be the cost to do this? The reward would be incredible and get older and younger generations greatly involved.