J.C. Love Field Construction

[dawg80]

EXACTLY what do you think should have been done differently. I know that HogDog wants more seats and qng001 wants green seats, but what else meets HogDog's assessment that "our leadership was stupid enough to screw up the new baseball stadium"? I think it will be great and something MOST of us will be proud of.

Oh, as I've said before, I'm sure it'll be a nice facility, and being brand new, will be a welcomed addition.

What I was specifically referring to was the design, the style. Making it LOOK like it was a 100-year-old ballpark but with modern amenities and materials. It would have been so different from the cookie-cutter stadiums being built that it would have set us apart, even helped attendance and recruiting. Alas...not many folks have "a vision." Most of you reading this right now cannot envision it. Oh well...carry on.

Go Diamond Dawgs!

[HogDawg]

I posted last year we had a chance to really, really make a statement and build an awesome baseball stadium/park. Well, we made a statement alright...

Too bad we have no one with any vision who is in charge.

But, hopefully we'll have a great team playing in this stadium. And, that is possible with scheduling! Just schedule a great team to come play us!

You did, indeed. I remember that. But I reserved my comments until I could actually SEE some of the results. But it's very clear from these photos & videos that adequate seating has been compromised......apparently to make room for new coaches offices, an oversized press box, an indoor practice facility, and other niceties, etc.... That 3rd base line has got a lot crammed into a fairly small space. Our leadership just forgot about the fans. But hey, they are just customers.....who needs 'em anyway.

[Tech52]

Id rather it fit the style of the rest of our new additions. Athletics has their own aesthetic right now.

[dawg80]

Id rather it fit the style of the rest of our new additions. Athletics has their own aesthetic right now.

Yes "late 20th Century BLAH!"

[Tech52]

The housing around it is not old-style either. Nothing on that side of the railroad is. And neither is the new housing going up right on the other side of the tracks. If it were made into an older style it would look wrong, whether it looked good or not.

[inudesu]

I think it's going to look great.

I live in Fort Worth and work in Arlington. The trend out here is to abandon beautiful ballparks for more of a "Joe Bob's Roadside Fireworks" vibe when it comes to baseball. So, thankfully we did better than that.

[Tech52]

I think it's going to look great.

I live in Fort Worth and work in Arlington. The trend out here is to abandon beautiful ballparks for more of a "Joe Bob's Roadside Fireworks" vibe when it comes to baseball. So, thankfully we did better than that.

I think we can all be thankful it isnt the new Rangers’ stadium.

[Pitcherjlt]

I think we can all be thankful it isn't the new Rangers stadium.

This is one of the greatest observations ever!

[dawg80]

The housing around it is not old-style either. Nothing on that side of the railroad is. And neither is the new housing going up right on the other side of the tracks. If it were made into an older style it would look wrong, whether it looked good or not.

I am not an architect or even close to it, so I can't do an artist rendering to show you what it would look like. But, it would marry, on the exterior, the general look of the 20th Century Blah of the nearby structures with an old-fashion look in the interior, specially the grandstand/bleachers and the amenities for the fans' area, and the dugouts. Oh, and the outfield wall and the scoreboard housing too. I promise if you could see it, you'd like it.

[Gooddawg]

New JC Love is going to be phenomenal. Remember, the pictures you are looking at are from the apartments 500' away. I think there are going to be 13 rows of chairbacks and quite a few more than we had previously. I got to walk through recently and it is much larger than it looks even from the street once inside. I can't wait to watch games there this spring. You will not be disappointed.

[dawg80]

Oh, I'm sure new Love Field is gonna be nice...and it is useless to lament over what could have been. But, that doesn't change the fact we missed an opportunity...wait! what am I thinking? We are Louisiana Tech, we never do anything great. Mediocrity for us!

I will catch a game or two at Love Field this spring...maybe more if the team is really good. After all, it's the quality of the team on the field that matters. I could watch a Omaha-worthy team play on a frickin' sandlot! and then who cares about the stadium?

Go Diamond Dawgs! Just win!

[tenacious_dog]

I have wrestled with how to respond to the posters who don't like what's being done with the baseball field. Many recent comments have kind of laid me low. But what I write in response ends up being too long. So I end up with this:

Most (all?) of you guys probably don't have enough facts to make the statements you've made. But make the accusations and demeaning comments you have. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not going to be surprised if down the road you learn something about the processes and projects where you end up saying, "Oh, I didn't know "that" when I made this or that comment."

What is the appeal of running a situation down when, for crying out loud, we're getting tremendous facilities for about 50 cents on the dollar? People like Adam McGuirt have lived with this for months to come up with the best facilities possible. But you can't trust them to have an adequate brain in their collective heads to weigh the trade-offs and make the best choices? Do you seriously believe stadium seating didn't get painstakingly evaluated? Is posting a "knowledgeable" comment that important?

I'm taking a break until after the baseball stadium is open.

Tenacious

[BullPupN'46]

Good post t_d Seems like so many on this board only have a half empty glass where as you seem to all ways have a half full glass. When "I" was at Tech in the late""40's" our "stadium" consisted of bleacher seats with 5 or six rows, no consession stands, no r/rs. It was located the south side of "SV&P RR" where the soft ball field was. Very seldom were there a dozen or so students. Berry Hinton was BB coach,

[dawg80]

Of course...the old, tried-n-true "we are Louisiana Tech and should be thankful for whatever we get, even if it's crumbs." In this case I AM NOT saying the new Love Field is crumbs. I have even posted several times "I'm sure it's gonna be nice." I just posted an opinion, a wish, if you like, of going beyond "gonna be nice" and for once! leaping to something "really special," which Love Field could have been with just a little vision.

There's a Tech grad architect who lives in Natchitoches, I've seen his work, he could draw an artist's rendition of what I have in mind. Wonder how much he would charge? Oh well, water under the bridge now. Oh well...you know we "half empty glass" types, eh!

[Russdawg]

What is the appeal of running a situation down when, for crying out loud, we're getting tremendous facilities for about 50 cents on the dollar? People like Adam McGuirt have lived with this for months to come up with the best facilities possible. But you can't trust them to have an adequate brain in their collective heads to weigh the trade-offs and make the best choices? Do you seriously believe stadium seating didn't get painstakingly evaluated? Is posting a "knowledgeable" comment that important?

I'm taking a break until after the baseball stadium is open.

Tenacious

Good post. Please reconsider taking a break from your reports. I enjoy them and it's good to get timely eyewitness comments. Hope to read more.