The O.K. "Buddy" Davis Pressbox (former Demolition Thread)

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Originally Posted by Bearpaw

Not necessarily, it depends on how you structure it. If you include Ruston HS, you can get the City of Ruston on board, plus RHS's boosters. Plus, Neville and West Monroe HS's are located in the city of West Monroe (separate from Ouachita Parish & Monroe city; if I'm wrong, then you could reach some agreement with only their boosters), so you can get that city and the boosters of those schools on board. If you want to include Lincoln Parish, then you could include Choudrant and Simsboro.

Again, it depends on how you structure the agreement. Just including Tech, City of Ruston & RHS boosters, and the City of West Monroe & NHS/WMHS boosters is not too difficult to accomplish. 4 2-3 hour slots is not too difficult to schedule. Nor would 6-7 2 hour slots, especially if some teams are not averse to waking early.

I agree though that it would be difficult to include the entirety of Oachita Parish HS's in the equation.

However, losing a day of practice is worse than the expense of taking a bus trip 30 minutes away. I'll take my other half of the glass, thank you ;)

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Sorry, I didn't break it down for you.

Ouachita Parish School District: WM, WO, Ouachita, Sterlington, Richwood.
Monroe City School District: Neville, Wossman, Carrolll.

You don't do deals with booster clubs. You deal with school districts. One in, all are in. i.e. when West Monroe first got turf, all the other parish schools did, too.
Same when Neville got theirs.

Ruston and Lincoln Parish (even though RHS is the only football school), I don't have the local knowledge to present so I'll step out of the discussion on them.

If what you're saying is we need to build/finance OUR OWN Title IX IPF and RENT IT OUT on our terms more power to you. Including them on the financing/building would by a nightmare IMHO.

PS-Neville is located in Monroe.

Nice bowling in, but the fountain seems unnecessary inside the stadium.

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Originally Posted by Dawgpix

Sorry, I didn't break it down for you.

Ouachita Parish School District: WM, WO, Ouachita, Sterlington, Richwood.
Monroe City School District: Neville, Wossman, Carrolll.

You don't do deals with booster clubs. You deal with school districts. One in, all are in. i.e. when West Monroe first got turf, all the other parish schools did, too.
Same when Neville got theirs.

Ruston and Lincoln Parish (even though RHS is the only football school), I don't have the local knowledge to present so I'll step out of the discussion on them.

If what you're saying is we need to build/finance OUR OWN Title IX IPF and RENT IT OUT on our terms more power to you. Including them on the financing/building would by a nightmare IMHO.

PS-Neville is located in Monroe.

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Gotcha, thanks for the information. I agree, 4-5 would probably be the reasonable limit on the number of participants if we decided to build it with others. Renting it out to some of the schools would be an option if we were to build it ourselves (could help with local recruiting as well), or we could make it an arrangement to build it with Lincoln Parish (3 public high schools, city of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Tech= 4 schools participating; e.g. possibly add Grambling; e.g. 40-50% Tech, 10% City of Ruston, 20% Lincoln Parish, 10-20% Grambling). Naturally, the funding source paying the most would have first rights to schedule as Champion110 suggested

Has anyone thought of the inflatable one like the Houston Texans use? It may be more expensive. I have no idea.

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Originally Posted by Bearpaw

Gotcha, thanks for the information. I agree, 4-5 would probably be the reasonable limit on the number of participants if we decided to build it with others. Renting it out to some of the schools would be an option if we were to build it ourselves (could help with local recruiting as well), or we could make it an arrangement to build it with Lincoln Parish (3 public high schools, city of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Tech= 4 schools participating; e.g. possibly add Grambling. 40-50% Tech, 10% City of Ruston, 20% Lincoln Parish, 10-20% Grambling). Naturally, the funding source paying the most would have first rights to schedule as Champion110 suggested

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Does the NCAA have any limits on something like this? Didn't they stop the JAM at the JOE?

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Originally Posted by Houston Techsan

Has anyone thought of the inflatable one like the Houston Texans use? It may be more expensive. I have no idea.

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Don't get the ones the Dallas Cowboys had at Valley Ranch! Dang thing collapsed and hurt some folks.

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Originally Posted by Dawgpix

Sorry, I didn't break it down for you.

Ouachita Parish School District: WM, WO, Ouachita, Sterlington, Richwood.
Monroe City School District: Neville, Wossman, Carrolll.

You don't do deals with booster clubs. You deal with school districts. One in, all are in. i.e. when West Monroe first got turf, all the other parish schools did, too.
Same when Neville got theirs.

Ruston and Lincoln Parish (even though RHS is the only football school), I don't have the local knowledge to present so I'll step out of the discussion on them.

If what you're saying is we need to build/finance OUR OWN Title IX IPF and RENT IT OUT on our terms more power to you. Including them on the financing/building would by a nightmare IMHO.

PS-Neville is located in Monroe.

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I totally agree with this. Under the best of circumstances you probably can't get over $100K from any possible financial partner other than maybe Grambling or Lincoln Parish Schools.

School booster clubs can't come close to raising the level of money needed. School districts would likely have to float a bond package to raise any significant money, and if they are doing that voters won't be inclined to chip in to build something outside of their districts much less 30 miles away. The primary use for high schools would be for last-minute inclement weather requests, and the distance from schools outside Lincoln Parish would make that impractical.

Assuming the building would cost around $5M, if Tech has to foot more than $3M anyway it should just build with no partners and rent it out after taking care of its own needs first.

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Originally Posted by Tech52

Nice bowling in, but the fountain seems unnecessary inside the stadium.

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For the locals that's the only chance they have at running water and a bath. It's also to wash of the nasty off having to play Ark St.

The water falls actually serve a pretty cool purpsoe. Bacially, they make the stadium look larger from the outside with out having to put in seating that is not gonna be used.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0...23&oe=59C5393E

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Originally Posted by bleudog

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0...23&oe=59C5393E

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Thanks for the photo, bleudog. With all the talk about indoor practice fields, the new signage at the TAC and Ark St's stadium improvements, this is our first picture update since 6/22.

Could someone get a picture of the front?

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Originally Posted by techdawg28

Could someone get a picture of the front?

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That's the front. You want the back? ;)

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Originally Posted by techdawg28

Could someone get a picture of the front?

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The picture was "borrowed" from Mr. Guice's Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/les.guice/p...05873402775570

I see they have the new lights up. Dawgpix, any chance of getting a night time pic of the lights on?