Why facilities matter...

[Jason Svoboda]

Check this out. This is LSU Football on MTV Cribs.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLWagEGQvEE[/ame]

 

[IndyTreeFan]

Whoa! Guess that's what selling 80,000 tickets every week will get you...

 

[country123a]

Whoa! Guess that's what selling 80,000 tickets every week will get you...

No doubt... First class all the way.

 

[TH_Sycamore12]

MTV Cribs? Really?

 

[bent20]

Must be nice when you can get the likes of MTV and ESPN to do your recruiting for you.

 

[Sackalot]

And don't forget the multi-million dollar tiger cage housed under the stadium. Mike lives there. Last time I was in Baton Rouge a buddy of mine that is an LSU alum was telling me that LSU spent something like 2 million on padding Mike's Cage...cause his paws were getting scraped up on the concrete

 

[bent20]

Yes, those SEC schools sure have it rough with their football-crazed, multimillionaire alums.

 

[BankShot]

The Tradition of Huey Long

Given the Louisiana heritage of political corruption, I wouldn't doubt if Hurricane Katrina funds weren't used to fund this "cage."

I've travel a couple times/mo. down I-55 to Brookhaven, MS then criss-cross west via Hwy 84 thru Natchez, MS - Vidalia, LA - Ferriday, LA - Jonesville, LA - Frogmore, LA (now there's a thriving metropolis!)...finally arriving @ Alexandria/Pineville. No evidence whatsoever of Katrina rebuild $$$, although I'm sure that these are "hotbeds" for recruiting, given the nature of the population(s).

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051010/10louisiana.htm

 

[country123a]

Didn't realize Southern Illinois is in the last year of their current stadium. Check out what they have lined up for next year. Very impressive for FCS

http://athletics.salukiway.siu.edu/facilities.php#football

 

[IndyTreeFan]

SIU got Carbondale to kick in a 0.1% sales tax to help fund "Saluki Way.". If I remember correctly, that amounts to about $20,000,000 for the project. I hope that ISU can get similar support for the forthcoming "Sycamore Way" project. That's just my terminology, but a $20M pledge from Terre Haute could get this thing off the ground...

 

[Jason Svoboda]

SIU got Carbondale to kick in a 0.1% sales tax to help fund "Saluki Way.". If I remember correctly, that amounts to about $20,000,000 for the project. I hope that ISU can get similar support for the forthcoming "Sycamore Way" project. That's just my terminology, but a $20M pledge from Terre Haute could get this thing off the ground...

That would be so huge. However, I doubt they could get that through in Terre Haute.

 

[Sackalot]

I was in Carbondale in mid-July. I saw some improvements going on..but nothing that looked to be $20Million...but the link shows what they are planning and it looks pretty nice.