It's not ideal - but it's better than playing games at numerous facilities. Like I said, Ruston JV/Freshman would need to play at one of the Ruston Sports stadiums and Tech would need to practice there.
Here is Ruston's home & district schedule for 2019.
Red games are played on same day as Tech home games this year.
It looks as RHS & Tech already try not to schedule games at the same time. It would be very 'doable' to make sure Tech is on the road during the 2nd weekend.
I'm sure C-USA and whoever schedules for District 2-5A can figure a way to make it work.
Sat, February 2nd 12:00 pm Haughton (Scrimmage) Home Mon, February 18th 5:00 pm West Ouachita LA TECH Tue, February 26th 5:00 pm Airline Home Thu, February 28th TBA Trey Altick Tournament Home Fri, March 1st TBA
Tech on the roadTrey Altick Tournament Home Sat, March 2nd TBA
Tech on the roadTrey Altick Tournament Home Tue, March 5th 5:30 pm
Tech or RHS could play on WedParkway Home Mon, March 11th 6:00 pm Jonesboro-Hodge Home Mon, March 18th 6:00 pm Neville Home Thu, March 21st 6:00 pm West Monroe* Home Sat, March 23rd 1:00 pm West Monroe* Away Mon, March 25th 5:30 pm Franklin Parish Home Thu, March 28th 6:00 pm Ouachita* Away Sat, March 30th 1:00 pm
Tech could play @ 7pmOuachita* Home Mon, April 1st 6:00 pm Darbonne Woods Home Tue, April 2nd 6:00 pm Summerfield Home Thu, April 4th 5:30 pm Alexandria Senior High* Away Fri, April 5th 5:30 pm
Tech could play DH Saturday
or they play split DH SaturdayAlexandria Senior High* Home Tue, April 9th 6:00 pm Delhi Charter Home Thu, April 11th 5:00 pm Natchitoches Central* Home Sat, April 13th 12:30 pm Natchitoches Central* Away Thu, April 18th 5:30 pm Pineville* Away Fri, April 19th 5:30 pm
Tech could play DH Saturday
or they play split DH SaturdayPineville* Home
Add another set of bleachers and we couild survive there for a season.
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The way this team plays, a high school field is good enough.
I was thinking the same thing. It’s hard to be inspired about the future when the present stinks.
Hopefully this has not already been brought up - I searched the thread for "Mitchell" with no results returned.
Remove the remaining dorms on the west side of Tech Drive (Mitchell, Cottingham, and Richardson). Art studios can be relocated somewhere else on campus - maybe even in Harper for the time being.
Plenty of room for both fields. And LOTS of parking space - something the two existing sites do not have. Parking that will be a plus for students during the day.
I think Harper is going down before Mitchell does
I think we could do the below without much cost "if" we use RHS.
Outside ParkInside Park
- Truck Tailgate Parking (this is for our fans who watch games in the Shack outfield), folks can back up their trucks, open pit bbq, party in this area.
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- Add additional temp seating
- Food Truck area (not sure how adequate the concession are for added fans in the park, I assume we need to bring in food trucks)
- Reserve tent (not sure what to call it)
- Maybe add port-a-john area
How about a better place for Dave to call games from?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisDemi...06583823720450
He had to serve tacos between innings!!!
All kidding aside, maybe a Tech donor can build a larger press box
This might be too much to ask but if the softball stadium is destroyed also, could we switch softball's layout to match the baseball's layout at the love shack? That way when driving down Tech Drive, you face towards the back of both the baseball stadium and softball stadium at the intersection of Tech and Alabama? It would look much better if they can mirror their designs, or at least make them match i.e not one be metal stands and the other be concrete and brick. That parking lot is an eyesore when driving down Tech's "entrance" down Tech drive. They can put the parking lot behind the the stadium probably.
It really is not much smaller than what TECH had before. This is a non-issue