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re: How are the expansion projects coming?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 1:10 am to GeorgeReymond
Posted on 6/18/14 at 1:10 am to GeorgeReymond
I disagree with Alleva on not disrupting traffic. Would look better if we would have built the expansion to match the rest of the stadium. Looks nice from the outside but the endzone above the suites looks hodgepodge... And the damn Legos on top..
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 1:19 am to MC5601
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I disagree with Alleva on not disrupting traffic. Would look better if we would have built the expansion to match the rest of the stadium. Looks nice from the outside but the endzone above the suites looks hodgepodge.
I actually like the look and I like the part that is mostly suites. I have sat in the top of Bama's endzone but I felt like I was extremely far away. So I am glad we have fewer extreme nosebleed seats even for visitors.
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And the damn Legos on top.
I understand the concept for elevators, concessions, restroom in the blocks, but why couldn't they have made it a solid wall and even in height?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 1:19 am to MC5601
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I disagree with Alleva on not disrupting traffic. Would look better if we would have built the expansion to match the rest of the stadium. Looks nice from the outside but the endzone above the suites looks hodgepodge... And the damn Legos on top.
Have you been to Tiger Stadium since the 90's?
the west side expansion needs to be blown up and rebuilt from scratch. The East side is extremely "meh".
This is the closest LSU's AD has gotten to nailing a major football expansion. Overall it looks really good. It would have looked GREAT if we could have closed the street behind it and expand out instead of up, but we couldn't do that for infrastructure reasons.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 1:21 am to tigerbait2010
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the west side expansion needs to be blown up and rebuilt from scratch.
I wouldn't go that far it just needs tint instead of the prison bars and an arch facade similar to the south endzone.
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The East side is extremely "meh".
slap on an arch facade and it is good to go
Posted on 6/18/14 at 1:29 am to WeeWee
Yeah, it was a little hperbolic. I just can't believe it "not matching the stadium" is his biggest complaint. It without question is our best job we've done on an expansion.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 2:14 am to tigerbait2010
Not to mention that this:
is far, far better than this:
is far, far better than this:
Posted on 6/18/14 at 2:47 pm to Jefferson Davis
And I was worried they wouldn't fit.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 2:50 pm to Farmer1906
Getting those out will be fun.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 2:56 pm to Farmer1906
Looks like that crane is fricking Kyle Field
Oh and:
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 3:30 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Reminds me a bit of Beaver Stadium at Penn State:
Posted on 6/18/14 at 3:34 pm to Jefferson Davis
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:21 pm to MetryTyger
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It will look way better than Beaver - that is one ugly stadium...
Oh heck yeah. Not that it's hard though...
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:40 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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LSU went vertical with it's expansion, which is an entirely self-supporting structure.
I just hope the weight is not so much that your field sinks below sea level!
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:55 pm to Jagd Tiger
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Baton Rouge is located in the Mississippi River Delta on the first set of bluffs north of the delta's coastal plains. Because of its prominent location along the river and on the bluffs, which prevents flooding, the French built a fort in the city in 1719.
Solid ground. Probably a lot more solid, in fact, than COMO is.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:05 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Solid ground. Probably a lot more solid, in fact, than COMO is.
Maybe, one summer I worked on a soil survey crew and walked across southeast La. basically from BR to Bogalusa, and there is a lot of soil there that is not very solid.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:09 pm to Jagd Tiger
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Maybe
No maybe, I lived in Missouri once myself. You guys have far more earthquakes than we do.
We cause our own earthquakes down here...
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:12 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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No maybe, I lived in Missouri once myself. You guys have far more earthquakes than we do.
About every 2 to 3 decades there might be one you can actually feel.
Talking about actual subsoil quality for building, it's a different animal, there is a lot more quicksand in La than in Mo, that's a fact.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:18 pm to Jagd Tiger
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there is a lot more quicksand in La than in Mo, that's a fact.
Except in Baton Rouge, which is, as I said before, built on bluffs. TMK, there hasn't been an earthquake you could feel here in a hundred years.
Missouri was where I experienced my first quake, in fact. Luckily, I was in bed when in happened, and after it woke me up, I just went back to sleep.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:26 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Except in Baton Rouge,
you'ed hope even cajun's would be smart enough not to build a city on a quicksand bayou, then again there is Nerlins..
Posted on 6/18/14 at 5:33 pm to Jagd Tiger
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then again there is Nerlins..
Which would have been fine, if the US Army Corps of Engineers could have walked the walk like they talked the talk. The city came through Katrina just fine. It was the levees breaking that caused the flooding. Not to mention the pumps failing because they were improperly maintained.
New Orleans brought in engineers from Holland because they had completely lost faith in the Corps. after Katrina.
New Orleans is an old city. It predates the USA. And it's actually experienced more disaster since the US Army Corps of Engineers took over control of the Mississippi River than in all it's history prior.
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