I had some time on my hands and decided to show everyone my Microsoft Paint skills. I hope all of you designers are proud. This is basically what I would like for Baseball, Softball, and for a future indoor practice facility.
Baseball- Move the stadium closer to the corner and have both sides parallel to the streets. This allows more space for the stadium and field. We would lose some parking but I'm fine with that. No one looks at parking lots and thinks they add something positive to the aesthetics. The pitching/batting practice building is moved to the right side. The right field hill is expanded and we keep the train and apartment view in the outfield.
Softball- Flip the alignment and have the back facing the intersection of Alabama and Tech Dr like the baseball stadium. The parking lot is then placed behind the stadium in order to block its view, but not much if any parking should be lost. Have both the softball and baseball's facades face the intersection and they hopefully will have two similar brick designs to make them match each other and campus.
Electronic Message Board- There is a little square on the corner of Alabama and Tech in front of the softball facility. This would be for an electronic message board. That corner is possibly the busiest corner on Tech's campus, we should be taking advantage of that intersection to promote athletic events or just to deliver messages to the public. Southern Miss has one and it's what inspired me to put it on there as there is extra space on that corner in my plan.
Soccer- The stands are centered to be symmetrical but not much else is changed.
Soccer/Softball building- The building between the softball and soccer facilities will contain each sports locker rooms and offices. It will also have an outdoor spot for a food stand during softball and soccer games.
Indoor practice facility- This is just a wish of mine, but I'd like to see the indoor practice facility placed where the existing practice field is so we don't have to change the running track and we can connect it to the intramural center with a walkway over Tech Drive. Instead of an outdoor practice field, now the football team has an indoor practice facility in its spot and if they need to practice something outdoors, they can use the stadium or the field in the middle of the track. So nothing really changes for their layout. By connecting it to the intramural center, this can be used as a student recruitment tool effectively doubling the size of intramural center. It would allow intramural sports, gym classes, student activities, or activities in general to have a huge open indoor space to use while the football team isn't using it. Imagine the possibilities of being able to go to one facility to workout in the gym, swim laps in a pool, play basketball, or do sprints in an indoor football field.
Tech Drive Walkway- The walkway over Tech would contain the name of Louisiana Tech University across it and would be a great way to welcome people to the university. Hopefully they would also put an electronic message board on it to display messages about upcoming sports events or messages in general. It also could be used used as a crosswalk across Tech Drive as there is no pedestrian crosswalk unless you walk down to Alabama. Here is an example from Chalmette to give an idea, but of course ours would be much better looking.