The first offseason thread should be about the ongoing facilities race IMO.

Most conference schools have significant upgrades either in the works or starting shortly.

If anyone has anything in the work I missed, please feel free to post the info yourself.

LSU

Expansion of Football Operations Center, addition of Nutrition Center. (photo subject to change)

Advocate

About 150-200 dorm rooms were removed stretching from the west to the east side of the south end zone. Future home of new food court and possibly sports bar. (photos courtesy of MirrOlure)

Renovation of Tiger Stadium bathrooms for 2017, concessions in 2018.

Advocate

Addition of weight rooms to Alex Box Stadium and Tiger Park Stadium. New batting cages for Tiger Park.

LSUsports

Almost forgot...

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LSU’s Stadium Could Be Getting The Sickest Feature In College Football By Next Fall

A beer garden could be coming to LSU’s Tiger Stadium before the first kickoff next Fall according to a report from the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report:

Limited beer sales in Tiger Stadium could become a reality by the start of the fall football season. LSU officials confirm that plans for a beer garden in the stadium are firming up, though the deal hasn’t been finalized yet.

“We are aggressively working to have it in place in the fall,” says LSU Spokesman Ernie Ballard. “But we are still working through everything to make it happen.”

BroBible

Reposting from sicboy's thread on the rant:

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Soon, the PMAC could have more than just a new video board.

Imagine club level seating, possibly even suites and an expansive entrance lobby. Those are long-term plans for LSU’s 45-year old basketball arena, school officials revealed Monday during the Tiger Athletic Foundation’s Tiger Tour in Baton Rouge.

Architects have already been at work on possible plans for the arena, said Eddie Nunez, LSU’s deputy director of athletics in charge of projects. The two areas of emphasis are the entrance to the building, currently two ramps up to the second floor, and premium seating, which is nonexistent at the PMAC.

“We’ve already had some conceptual plans drawn up to see kind of how we make it better,” Nunez said. “We had some architects do some preliminary work. It is something we really need to do for that venue.” The arena is getting a new four-sided video board, suspended over midcourt, this summer. The HD-quality board is scheduled for installation in July, Nunez said.

There are plenty of other changes coming in the future. Athletic director Joe Alleva told the crowd on Monday that he’d like to raze the two ramps, replacing them, potentially, with escalators and constructing a “nice lobby in the front of the building.”

On the inside, officials are hoping to remove seating, possibly decreasing the 13,215 capacity, in order to add club or suite levels, Alleva and Nunez said. “It has to be modernized,” Alleva said of the PMAC.

“I’d like to build a club level at the PMAC. Just like in football and baseball we have club areas. We need a club area in the PMAC. Those will be plans we’re laying out here in the near future I hope.” The location of the club level is uncertain, Nunez said. The most illogical would be on the floor level because that would remove too many seats, he said. The ideal location is on the second or third (top) tier of the arena.

“The good part about it is our second level really isn’t a second level traditionally. It’s not far up,” Nunez said. “If you take that area ... Is that the best? Or is it the third level? Those are things (architects) are going to try to figure out.”

Advocate

A new and very large video board has been installed at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center

The Maravich Center will be home to the largest center hung videoboard in the nation!

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Those PMAC renovations Alleva spoke of earlier this year? Here's LSU's new, massive scoreboard. A new court may be on the way too.

Here's what the old one looked like:

This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 10:42 am