Someone Has Finally Listened - Southern Univeristy Coming to Ruston in 2015

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Originally Posted by KSDAWG

You just aren't thinking big enough!!!

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No - I know what it's like to move and entire operation into a brand new facility and get it up and running correctly by a hard dead line while still managing the day to day operations of the existing operations...

1) Concentrate on making the DAC opening the best it can be

2) Focus on having the game operations functioning and servicing to facilitate what will in all probability be a SRO crowd and the SECOND LARGEST crowd to ever attend a TECH sporting event on Tech Campus

3) Make sure the egress and access functions are adequate for handling the above referenced crowd

Those are the 3 things the admin should be focusing on - nothing else...

If they are success in those 3 things NO ONE will care if it was 28k and change or 30K and change that were there

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

If it was a normal year maybe - but with bringing the DAC on line, I really don't think it is feasible...

I would sell about 500 hillside seating GA passes for $15 each and be done with it

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Hillside?

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Originally Posted by boxerdog

Hillside?

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Yep - east and west side sides in the North endzone

Mogul seating is the sexier term...

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

Yep - east and west side sides in the North endzone

Mogul seating is the sexier term...

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Originally Posted by Dowty

We've had the entire offseason to prepare for this. The admin better follow through.

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Agreed. If SU travels as advertised, I fully expect T-Mac to announce a "temporary seating" plan any day now.

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

If it was a normal year maybe - but with bringing the DAC on line, I really don't think it is feasible...

I would sell about 500 hillside seating GA passes for $15 each and be done with it

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Small time thinking.

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Originally Posted by Dowty

We've had the entire offseason to prepare for this. The admin better follow through.

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What is the Vegas line on our running out of ice before the end of halftime????? :((

Someone needs to make sure there are airial photos of the stadium during the game. T-Mo, get your angel wings on.

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Originally Posted by DawgFaninHous

What is the Vegas line on our running out of ice before the end of halftime????? :((

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I'll give you 3:1

In 2009, Ull crammed 41, 357 into a 30,000 seat stadium without adding temporary bleachers. They sold seats on both hillsides and had peop[le seated in every aisle. The fire marshall finally stopped them from admitting any more, causing thousands to be turned away. More than 2000 were rejected, according to ULL estimates at that time. Northwestern State crammed 17,000 into a 15,700-seat stadium back in the late nineties. Many of their own walk-up fans, who were accustomed to showing up at the last minute, were turned away. NSU eventually moved that game to Shreveport.

Why bother with temporary bleachers when the 500 to 1,000 SRO customers can be handled with GA tickets?

Lots of costs/troubles associated with temporary seating when you are already wrangling a 900lb gorilla WITHOUT the dedication of the DAC

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

Why bother with temporary bleachers when the 500 to 1,000 SRO customers can be handled with GA tickets?

Lots of costs/troubles associated with temporary seating when you are already wrangling a 900lb gorilla WITHOUT the dedication of the DAC

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I second this. Even fooling with the the "smallish" bleachers for the main peach festival stage is an absolute nightmare.

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Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden

Why bother with temporary bleachers when the 500 to 1,000 SRO customers can be handled with GA tickets?

Lots of costs/troubles associated with temporary seating when you are already wrangling a 900lb gorilla WITHOUT the dedication of the DAC

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I wouldn't call it a 900 lb gorilla. You're talking about adding 1K to 5K temporary seats, and you've had 9 months to do it. And you STILL have 6 weeks to do it. Not exactly a small time frame to work with. It can be done.

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Originally Posted by HogDawg

I wouldn't call it a 900 lb gorilla. You're talking about adding 1K to 5K temporary seats, and you've had 9 months to do it. And you STILL have 6 weeks to do it. Not exactly a small time frame to work with. It can be done.

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We have ice and bottled water to be concerned with.

Just make sure there is plenty of cold Pepsi! Everything else is mere details....