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Originally Posted by Dawg61
Lol. I'm pretty sure that is a private residence behind LF. In years past, people would sit on the rooftops of those houses, but haven't seen that happen in a while
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Originally Posted by Dawg61
Lol. I'm pretty sure that is a private residence behind LF. In years past, people would sit on the rooftops of those houses, but haven't seen that happen in a while
Don't put ANYTHING out of the realm of possibility with us.Quote:
Originally Posted by HailHud
WOAH!!! That changes EVERYTHING!!! How much for us to rent out this guy's house for the weekend and turn his backyard into the "Bulldawg Army of Tailgating Tents And Other Awesome Stuff"? For $10,000 this guy will let us tear up his shit right? I get master bedroom fukers for having the idea. What's the local hot tub supplier's name and #?Quote:
Originally Posted by HailHud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ates_by_income Um, your state is dead LAST in income per capita... there was an article in People magazine years ago that listed Lafayette as 'Boomtown USA'..lol It stated that almost everyone had a private maid and butler and we had landing pads for helicopters at McDonalds ..lol...Anyway.. yeah, lots and lots of oil money here... so, we don't need yours... good luck in the tourney!.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Pioneer Dawg
I can tell with your extra oil money you bought yourself a bunch of extra periods…………right? Care to link that article from People magazine so we can get educated correctly? ...Quote:
Originally Posted by leeman
At least we have 1 person on here that has a brain.............quit bitchingQuote:
Originally Posted by Maroons
If that's the case, I do wish you and your fellow Ragin Cajun fans would have taken some of your wealth and bought a larger stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by leeman
If you guys keep it up don't come you won't get tickets. The fact is we don't have a SEC park but we are number 10 in attendance ahead of Florida and Alabama. We earned the right to host you did not. I have six tickets that won't be going to customers for the first game that will be up for sale. So stop acting like elitist and come down be respectful and you will have a chance at tickets.
^^ I find this extremely ironic with his screen name and all^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Ole Colony
Did I just witness an argument where someone from Louisiana taunted Mississippi as a whole for low income?
My screen name has nothing to do with sports. Ole Colony Rd. is the name of the street my mother lives on. My Toyota Land Cruiser was parked there and that is what my club called me when trying to buy my truck.
He is correct. 3% unemployment and the oil, gas business is booming, obviously. Lots of $60,000 pick-ups and the girls drive Range Rovers, Mercedes, BMW. I moved here two years ago and there is plenty of $$$ here. The season tickets are mostly controlled by a small bunch with very, very deep pockets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg61
I will have 4 tickets to sell for Miss State vs. SDSU on Friday afternoon game. I'll most likely head out to the park and just sell them out there to someone walking up. But if someone is interested in purchasing them from me ahead of time let me know. I'll sell you all non-cajun game tickets.
Guess they figure house boats out rank trailers next.Quote:
Originally Posted by curmudgeon
Ever try to get away from your wife in a trailer?Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgSaint
We got a new sign at the Waffle House.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajuns29
Yes, your team earned the right to host, and the right to have a home-field advantage, including a decided edge in fans at attendance. However, that does not mean the 3 teams that earned a right to be in a regional should have almost no opportunity to bring a decent amount of their fans as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ole Colony
I don't know how we do it in Starkville, but it seems to me just 200 tickets per team is too few. Keep in mind, it's not just the host that earned something by getting to this regional. While I understand the logistical challenge that comes with not knowing in advance when and who each team will play beyond the first 2 games, why not come up with a workable plan that makes it possible to sell weekend tickets to your fans that are tied just to games ULL is in. Give ULL a clear-cut advantage in those games, but perhaps more along the lines of 75% to ULL fans with 25% being offered to whichever team they are playing. You make the tickets valid only to games your team is playing in, regardless of when the games are played. Same goes for all teams. Visiting teams get allotted 25% of the seating for any games their team appears in. For those games that don't involve ULL, take the remaining 50% of tickets and offer them first to the fans of the scheduled teams who have their "25% guaranteed seating", perhaps on a 50-50 basis for the first hour available, then open them up for everybody if any remain unsold. You clear the stadium between games, but with such a small stadium, that isn't that big of a hastle.
That way, visiting team fans can come to your place secure in the knowledge they will have at least a decent chance to get into a game. It also allows for at least a modest amount of visiting team fans to watch any games versus ULL, while still giving ULL a decided advantage in #'s. And, of course, visitors would then also know they'd likely be able to catch a game that does not include ULL without having to hope ULL fans will sell their tickets when it's time.
Also, is there not some practical, safe place & way to put in some temporary seating?
Obviously you haven't looked at the pictures of their stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
No there is not.
Guys we are spoiled with our home stadium and being sent to larger regionals in the past. ULL earned their ability to host and the NCAA decided to send us there instead of Miami or FSU.
It is what it is. Best case scenario ULL loses and the tickets come open for any fans who make the trip.
The 200 is NCAA rule not ours. You can blame coach Hud for the lack of seats. The park was supposed to be remodel last summer. The football stadium is getting the work now and baseball became phrase two. The only standing room is between the patio boxes which run along the brick walls and the bullpens.
I was just looking at that... the plans on p.36 of this link show 13,300 seats when the expansion/redesign is done. Nice. Too bad y'all don't have that for this weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ole Colony
Actually that makes no sense. No way you are building 13,300 seats including bleachers.
From Google Satellite photos, I wonder if it would be possible to slightly modify the bullpens on each side to accommodate additional temporary bleacher seating. Right now, it looks like the home team has 4 mounds, and the visitor 1. Wouldn't 2 be enough on the one side, allowing for bleachers there? And on the other, it looks like the mound could be moved back several yards.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
Just a thought, but if they'd done their homework in advance with regard to safety regulations, etc, it might have been a way to add several hundred additional seats.
You want them to build temporary bleachers for a Hundred people... in their bullpen...Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
Please stop...
Spend $10,000-$20,000 renting, erecting and dismantling 100 seats, crowd our bullpen to sell $7500 in tickets?Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
I have two box seats. I might put the non-UL games on eBay later when I pick'em up and post a link here, if anyone is interested.
Please read. I said "several hundred people". Your argument has zero credibility if you;re going to base it on misquotes or twisted words. Of course it would be ridiculous to consider temp bleachers for 100 fans. Of course it would not be ridiculous to look into it if it meant adding several hundred. In a 3700-seat stadium, 700-900 additional seats would be significant.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
I think the 13,300 is square footage for the seating area, not capacity. Looks weird on paper, but that's what the other numbers on that list show. No way we could get close to that with the current plans. They are basically planning to replace the grandstand section only to tie in with the ~10 year old side bleachersQuote:
Originally Posted by ScoobaDawg
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Originally Posted by Cajuns29
As I said in response to Scooba, it's "several hundred", not 100. As far as the expense goes, I think there should also be some consideration beyond nmoney by ULL that it might be a good thing to do all you can to accommodate as many fans as possible. Future hosting opportunities might be at play.
There is a master plan in place to upgrade most of our athletic facilities that has just begun. The baseball stadium upgrades are much needed and way overdueQuote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
http://www.ragincajuns.com/custompag...plan_Final.pdf
Seating capacity doesn't have any weight in selections. Press box and lights do.
I bet most people who show up end up getting in the games they want to see. I hate that ULL fans see our fans as putting them down in this thread. We shouldn't be doing that. We respect their accomplishment this season, which we're getting ready to end for them. I also hear they have some interesting entertainment options n the community, so could be okay even if you can't get in the game.
I'm very impressed by their following. Reminds me of us in the old days. Just like us, they're Making Baseball Matter.
I wouldn't be so sure. If it comes down to a close call between 2 qualified, deserving teams, seating capacity may well play a key role.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ole Colony
There are several teams hosting with less capacity than us. There are obviously no hosting opportunities at play. Our park will be expanded permanently when we do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
I've been to Lafayette for work a couple of times. It's a beautiful place and they have some of the best true Cajun food that you can think of. It's definitely enjoyable to visit and see that things are how they should be. I wish I could head down to Lafayette, but I can't.
You are making a large assumption, and that is that those smaller parks weren't clearly more deserving of a host spot. Since the decisions are made by a committee, and the votes can be influenced by any number of prejudices or personal factors, it is entirely possible that, in a close call, a smaller stadium could lose out to a larger stadium if capacity becomes the only real difference between the teams in question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajuns29
And there are more hosting sites that have more capacity than you. See how that works?
Some of the post sound too much like what we hear from LSU fans. You may not get into a game against us but you will have a good time tailgating we us.
Oh I read it. You aren't going to get several hundred in that area unless you tell them oh you can't have a bullpen at all and fill it in completely with bleachers.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
Furthermore I'm not sure why I'm responding again. That is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever read and no way anyone would ever do it. It isolates the pitchers from the stadium and changes their work area. No way in hell anyone would ever do that.
They won't be adding any more seating likely. They sent the 200 per visiting team per NCAA rules and thats gonna be it.
We should of won more. Simple.
We should be bombarding the inboxes of our admin and the ****ing brain dead NCAA. They cld have easily placed us in a regional to accommodate some of the best traveling baseball fans in the Western Hemisphere, yet they stick us at a large high school stadium. They could have easily put a lesser traveling fan base team in ULL or given is a 3 see somewhere. Really no difference in a 2-3 seed in these regionals. No real advantage to either, except potential to host next weekend, based on other regional, but how many times does that happen? Last one I remember is us hosting Clemson in Supers.
Let's not fault ULL for their facilities. We should focus the attention to those who allowed it to happen.
Exactly.. They are doing good things down there.Quote:
Originally Posted by drunkernhelldawg
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Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Go send your angry emails to Scott and the NCAA members...
It's SIMPLE.
W-E
S-H-O-U-L-D
H-A-V-E
W-O-N
M-O-R-E
G-A-M-E-S
What do you expect? This is a MSU site not a ULL one. You came here, we didn't come to your site. MSU travels extremely well for college baseball. Did you not watch the National Championship series last year? We filled the entire stadium at Omaha in maroon. Over 20,000 MSU fans per game. Our fanbase is excited to try and get back and for y'all to only give us 200 tickets when we could easily fill the 3,700 stadium all by ourselves is a slap in the face. 200 tickets?! What the fuk is that. Couldn't let's us have 500? 200. What a joke. Cut down your pine trees and let us sit out there. Y'all can plant them back after the regional. It ain't no thing for y'all. You're oil money rich.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ole Colony