RWR wrote:JDTulane wrote:RWR wrote:The fly is a horrific idea that will never happen. Absolutely terrible ingress and egress. A traffic nightmare. People need to really think things thru before making suggestions like this. It's not for sale and if it was it would drive the cost up dramatically. This is as ridiculous as suggesting we can build it in Audubon Park.
IT'S NOT THE DOME, IT'S THE LOSING.
So basically if it isn't the dome to you it is a horrific idea and should never be discussed or mentioned.
No. I'm against that idea b/c it has no basis in reality just like a 25,000 seat stadium doesn't. Like everyone here I'm for an OCS if it's done right which entails 50,000 seats to be legit ( can host all our games and won't be used against us in recruiting), provides ample parking, and doesn't try to rape the long time die-hard w/PSL's and high ticket prices. On the other hand your for an OCS no matter how much a detriment it is to the program.
All excellent points.
If there really, really needs to be a new football stadium for the program then what should be done is to acquire the real estate somewhere off campus where there can be a stadium AND adequate parking and decent ingress and egress for sizable crowds (taking over the park for that is just fantasy).
On campus in reality there's probably only space with the existing buildings left intact for some stadium that might barely seat 30,000, if that, and with not any real room for expansion and also parking is already very, very tight. There is almost NO excess space for that.
The only thing that possibly could be done would be to have some kind of gargantuan parking garage somewhere (now...would tailgating be enjoyable with such a facility?).
Again, if there were serious problems with parking on the opening night of the baseball stadium then how on earth would there not be serious problems x 5 with a football stadium?
Would the people in the neighborhood be willing to sit still with their driveways being blocked, etc.? Would the city be willing to be lenient about enforcing parking violations? I dare say that we all know the answers to those questions.
On campus stadium=a very half-baked idea and especially so if the idea is to have a program that will grow and go places and move forward and ultimately somewhere down the road be able to move up and out of C-USA.
The effort should instead be going into raising funds for an indoor practice facility.
Tulane sports: small football stadium, very small basketball arena, w̶i̶n̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶g̶r̶a̶m̶s̶, h̶o̶n̶e̶s̶t̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ , but, hey, now there's tailgating.