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Which Brian Wilson?

No politician would get re-elected by voting to turn down $1,000,000,000 for a new Tiger Stadium with the specifications first proposed by udtiger—even if it were constructed on an alternate site. The alternate site would be hotly debated, but the final decision would not kill the deal. Money talks.

Increasing the number of people involved on the game weekend/day would generate even more money. Making it more accessible to more people would generate more money. Making it famous would generate more events, that is, more money. I am sure more people can come up with more benefits.

Thinking rather than emoting was the purpose of udtiger's post.

I agree. And don't be surprised to see Mett if JJ and Lee falter or go down.

Yes with the following qualifications, which I look forward to discussing:

Purpose: the future. Essential Goals in this order: Beautiful outside, practical, and beautiful inside.

Build an 115,000 plus seating capacity Ultradome between New Orleans and LSU and use it for the Saints, LSU, any nearby pro team wanting a great venue (even if part time), any Bowl, and any college conference championship. The winners and losers both get to party in New Orleans without driving.

The Dome would be linked to LSU and New Orleans by a 60 mph raised rail system that would only take 40 minutes for the students (priority) to arrive.

Unlimited acreage for events and for before-and-after-game tailgaiting and parking.

Squeeze in some roof acreage (not necessarily contiguous) to roll back for dry cool days (not a must).

Real seating. No stupid standing room only for 20K plus fans who can’t see the game.

It must be as loud as the Superdome (which is louder than Tiger Stadium).

It must be beautiful outside and inside.

No gimmicks such as giant, useless windows as in Jerry’s World. That must be for seated fans.

The SEC is expanding, and college ball is becoming more and more important.
Others can argue over benches or seatbacks; just don’t forget the goals.

If he was not misunderstood, then he needs to stop reading hiw own healines and stay focused on helping to win the game instead of some trophy for himself. He will not only learn humility but could then allow himself to have the best game of his career, which sure looks to become a record career.

Although the primary goal of the BCS was to pit the two best teams against another, it had other goals such as to protect the traditional bowl system, etc. The problem has always been how do we know which are the two best teams? The BCS has tried mightily, to its credit. (And it is still better than a Div II playoff system.) But we already know BAMA is nearly as good as LSU. We don't know whether OKST is nearly as good as LSU. We won't learn anything if BAMA beats LSU, and we won't learn much more if LSU beats BAMA. BAMA had its chance and lost. The BCS voters let the system down this year.

Champion's Square has no roof, and it will be so packed that you will move about as fast as you can on Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras day. The beer (Bud) lines might be long but they move and have a decent price, all considered (unless they jack them up above the usual Saints' game price).

The Sheraton is located on Canal Street, just across from the Quarter. Give them a call. That sounds like a great deal. Check out some of the other big hotels too: the Marriott (on Canal a few blocks from the Sheraton) and the Hilton (end of Canal near the Marriott and the Casino). Even better, the Dome MIGHT have admission inside its gigantic meeting rooms. Give 'em all a call. From there, go to Google and search big hotels in New Orleans. There are quite a few; New Orleans has made sure it has more hotel space than it needs for any event. Even the mid-sized ones can have big rooms.

Never ever get off the beaten path of long crowds headed to the Quarter from the hotel or the Dome, or you will become beaten or worse. Women simply must have at least one decent man with them and more around them. Most people know “equality” is at best a lie. At night, women should never walk anywhere in New Orleans alone even if it is to catch a streetcar packed with solid citizens or to cross the street. Even the daytime is unsafe; but this discussion is limited (because of the need to be brief) to the night of the NC in New Orleans.

Don't drink and drive; this is preaching practicality not morality. (Just add up the relative costs as they say on TV.) If worse comes to worse, take a cab to your local sports bar, and get the best seat in the whole world outside of your living room.

Good luck.

I rushed my listing (as the awful writing reveals). I really just wanted to make a few points and got carried away.


The critical goal is to end affirmative action in college football, and step 2 is vital. Boise State and other wannabees simply have not earned a shot at LSU or Alabama or other BCS teams. This is not a game of monopoly. It is big time college football, which has millions of devoted fans who donate money and attend or follow games religiously and players who have staked their athletic gifts and struggles on going with a big time program to gain entrance to the pros.


Boise players chose not to take the chance to go to a big time program and risk never playing. Boise State ain't devoted. They could be if they recruited better. They could be if they refused to play crummy teams. I am sick of flashes in the pan rather than a team like Stanford grinding its way to prominence, assuming the PAC 12 is a grind. Still, the PAC 12 is a gauntlet compared to Boise's conference. Think Boise can go undefeated in the PAC 12? No way. And Boise knows it.


I could go on, but I will stop boring people on this point.


Playoffs reduce the regular season, which actually is the most important part of college football. Regular season games must be limited due to the risk of injury during playoffs. But the struggling, cheap, and chump conferences don’t want to agree to increased scholarships so that LSU would be two deep at the critical positions. LSU would have at least two big, fast option quarterbacks of equal ability every year.


Nuff for now.

The BCS is a good system for LSU. With some suggested tweaks, the BCS would still be the best system.

1. Thecomputers must reveal their programs and must be proven predictors or they are dropped.

2.The critical change is all finalists must come from deserving conferences. This would be done by reviewing a conferences’ record against the teams that finished in the top 5, 10, 15, and 20 ranked colleges for a selected—2, 3, or 4—previous years. A simple computer program gives the results. Independent’s would be put in a theoretical conference pool. If it leaves during the 2, 3, or 4 year period, they must start over again in their new conference.


3.Only the coach’s poll would count, and a coach could not vote for his own team.

4.All conferences must have the same number conference members +1 or - 1.

5.All conferences must play at least 80% of games inside their conferences.

6.The regular season games are reduced to 11 games. (Of course if two teams have no bowl they want, they can opt out and play anyone that will play them.)


7.Conference playoffs are eliminated, and a fair across-the-board tiebreaker would be required for each conference.

8. The top four teams play in the traditional bowl games against one another.

9. The other teams play in the other traditional bowls.

10. The two out of the select four winners play in the BCS championship game.

11. The BCS winner could not appear with the AP winner in a co-championship ceremony.

Some traditions would be lost, but the BCS system has already started the destruction.