re: Are the stadiums in the SEC secure enough?

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Also, I've never been informed of a plan by the university as in what to do if something were to happen.

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Wow. That's very surprising.

I was an EMT in College Station back in the mid-90s--which was pre-911/terrorism times. At that time our biggest nightmare scenario--and something we prepared for--was a massive triage situation caused by a train coming off the tracks on gameday at Kyle Field (we have very active train tracks that run through the center of campus, right next to Kyle). If the average College Station resident knew the volatile contents that those train cars contain, they wouldn't sleep at night. But that's another story ....

Anyway, I know for a fact that the current crop of first responders in CS have extensive mass casualty/active shooter plans in place. I'd be stunned if the other universities didn't as well.

Fun fact:


More people have won jackpots of $1,000,000 or more in the lottery than have been killed by terrorists in the United States in the past decade :).





Terrorism mortality is overblown bullshite.

I don't disagree at all.
But universities and professional sporting clubs are still going to prepare for the worst.
Many advanced preparations (not just terrorism precautions) are never used--and that's a good thing.

I don't think you can secure any stadium against what these muslims are doing. You could but then it wouldn't be worth going to a game. Our biggest disadvantage is our biggest asset Freedom. If some idiot one to blow himself up right by one of the entrance gates I don't know how u stop it .

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The more I think about it, the more it scares me. A terrorist would not even have to go in the stadium, just wait outside for the masses to leave at the end (or halftime in Baton Rouge ).

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No joke.

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There are very very high concentrations of people leaving games all at once in very non-secured areas. Very scary honestly.

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Damn can you imagine how miserable traffic would be after an LSU game and a terrorist attack?

Short answer: nowhere is safe. Any non-moron could figure out how to kill a buch of ppl at a mass sporting event.

Caveat: terrorists are generally morons.

Also, remember that the reason Europe is having so many terror attacks is because they've had open borders for a long time. They've let Muslims pour in by the hundreds of thousands, and are now paying for it. We're not nearly at that point yet, but it makes me glad we have Donald Trump instead of some globalist pos like hillary, macron, or merkel

That's the truth right there.

I think perhaps championship games, bowl games, and NFL games would have a higher risk of something bad happening, just because of the hype surrounding those events, but I've thought about how easy it would be for someone to pull off what happened in Manchester over here at a college football stadium during a regular season Saturday.
A few years ago, I remember watching some C-Span segment (I think?) about one of the plans/goals of major terrorist groups wasn't just to attack big cities or have another 9/11, but to attack anywhere possible, as much as possible, and to learn about smaller areas in the U.S. and wreak havoc in general. And we have certainly seen that. (Boston marathon bombing, Orlando nightclub incident, etc.,)
Hopefully, more thought and contingency plans will be drawn up for universities in light of what took place in Manchester a few weeks ago.
I mean, wasn't in just less than a year ago that Ohio State had terrorist activity on campus? That might not have been outside of a stadium, or in the southeast, but imagine had the attacker thought to show up outside of an event like that and go after people, and easily given other perpetrators ideas. (And here I am online talking about it...) And there are plenty of international students attending these universities that may be radicalized. And yes, it's important to make the distinction that Islam is a religion, not a nationality, but let's not be politically correct and also realize that the majority of Islamic terrorist attacks are by individuals of Arab descent that would easily pick up on our culture and peg which venues would be the best bet to inflict the most harm.

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Are the stadiums in the SEC secure enough?

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It's not the stadiums to worry about but the mass of people outside stadiums in ticket lines/grouped together at tailgates etc


Either way, hard to imagine that college sporting events are targeted instead of pro sports in major cities