re: Are the stadiums in the SEC secure enough?

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I think Muslims would stick out like a sore thumb at SEC venues. Would be easy to recognize and have the police all over them. (Not meant to be racist but its just the honest truth)

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As someone else has pointed out... you'd be wrong. Islam is a religion, not an ethnic group.

Egypt is the only Arabic country to break into the top 6 countries with the largest Muslim populations and then only a by little bit over Nigeria.

Even if it was an Arabic terrorist if he were to shave his beard and dress like the locals he'd pretty much look like anyone out there with any sort of Mediterranean ethnic heritage.

The best way to find and stop radical Muslim terrorists is the best way to stop any radical shitehead terrorist... keep an eye on local hotheads and follow up tips from the community.

The most obvious attack is a small plane crashing into a packed stadium, there is no way to stop that.

The reality is there is no fool proof security against people willing to die to harm.

I'm not planning to live my life in fear.

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The most obvious attack is a small plane crashing into a packed stadium, there is no way to stop that.

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My fear is the use of a drone to carry a remote controlled bomb into an open-air stadium. That could take out lots of people.

Mine is at the gates. Two scenarios actually.

Scenario one is going in (not coming out). Crowds lined up funneled into a narrowing opening (turnstiles, gates near turnstiles, or tunnels/ramps).

It's simple enough to start mowing down people outside aiming in. The push of the crowd to get away, by pushing into the funnel, will trap many. Only way to mitigate that is an additional rink where smaller groups are allowed to approach the gate.

The other is actually a coordinated attack where if they have enough manpower they just lock the gates during or just before end of game. Chain and your own padlock is all that is needed. Yeah many will escape; but can you imagine a group of people who do not care about living holding 10k people hostage? Especially when they know it's going to end with them getting assaulted and dying (which is the goal). They will torture many to death unless the trapped rush them before they can barricade themselves into secure spots.

Every time I enter the stadium and I see those wrought iron gates open, but not locked open, I think of this. I wish the cops or at least stadium security would at least lock them open in a manner where they could only be shut by authorized personnel.

Cameras are in place, instant audience and publicity. Many tailgaters to witness it, even more publicity. Hence the brutal killing methods and likely torture. It would make the Beslan school siege look like a miniature play-act.

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I think Muslims would stick out like a sore thumb at SEC venues. Would be easy to recognize and have the police all over them. (Not meant to be racist but its just the honest truth)

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I see you have an LSU tag on your name...

are you serious about your post? There are a lot of Middle-Easterners in the Baton Rouge area, and a good bit of them in and around LSU. In my day, I remember there being a lot of grad students in math and chemistry being of that descent.

Not to stereotype, but it wouldn't draw any notice at all for someone of middle-east heritage to walk around campus in slightly nerdy clothes and a backpack, heading for the library or chemistry building, during gameday.
And that's likely what somebody would look like, if they were up to no good. They're not going to roll up in some Toyota with a 50 cal bolted to the bed, wearing their ISIS tee shirts.

It's sad that I even think of things like that, but that's now the world we live in.

as for on-campus venues, honestly, there's sadly a giant risk that can't be addressed.

Just taking LSU for example- as I said, there are plenty of foreign students, usually live on or near campus, not necessarily involved in the big sporting scene like "locals". But this is their campus too, and they will be out and about, even on gamedays.

Campus is crawling with folks on gameday. The Parade Grounds are milling with people. It's part of the tail-gating experience (or it was, haven't been the past couple of years).

You don't have to hit the stadium itself, if over a hundred thousand people are on campus that day. The Parade Grounds, or over by the Law School, where there are active students mingling with the fans, would be a huge blow.

If one were to pull a stunt on our sacred Fall Saturdays, they'd better pull it off and die in the process. Lest their head gets removed from their body and sent to the local taxidermist.

I quit going to games because I don't want to get blown up.

Both main grandstands at Razorback stadium have a street running adjacent to them that are shared by vehicles and crowds before and after the game. Both streets are sharply downhill towards the stadium.



Added bonus, you can sit "above" most of the stadium seating and have an open window into the stadium from the hillside to the NE.