In regards to Lafayette regional tickets...

[ScoobaDawg]

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.

Actually that makes no sense. No way you are building 13,300 seats including bleachers.

[blacklistedbully]

Obviously you haven't looked at the pictures of their stadium.

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.

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.

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.

[ScoobaDawg]

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.

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...

Please stop...

[Cajuns29]

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.

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.

Spend $10,000-$20,000 renting, erecting and dismantling 100 seats, crowd our bullpen to sell $7500 in tickets?

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.

[blacklistedbully]

You want them to build temporary bleachers for a Hundred people... in their bullpen...

Please stop...

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.

[HailHud]

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.

Actually that makes no sense. No way you are building 13,300 seats including bleachers.

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 bleachers

[blacklistedbully]

Spend $10,000-$20,000 renting, erecting and dismantling 100 seats, crowd our bullpen to sell $7500 in tickets?

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.

[HailHud]

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 overdue
http://www.ragincajuns.com/custompag...plan_Final.pdf

[Ole Colony]

Seating capacity doesn't have any weight in selections. Press box and lights do.

[drunkernhelldawg]

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.

[blacklistedbully]

Seating capacity doesn't have any weight in selections. Press box and lights do.

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.

[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 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.

[TheRef]

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.

[blacklistedbully]

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.

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.

And there are more hosting sites that have more capacity than you. See how that works?

[Ole Colony]

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.

[ScoobaDawg]

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.

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.
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.

[RougeDawg]

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.

[ScoobaDawg]

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.

Exactly.. They are doing good things down there.

[ScoobaDawg]

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.

Go send your angry emails to Scott and the NCAA members...
It's SIMPLE.


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[Dawg61]

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.

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.