Houston Poke

I kind of like those Box suites on the ODU conceptual drawing... I think Lamar would do well by adding something like that in the North EZ, and and try to attach a new field house to it as well. Possibly by digging out the hills and attaching it to the M-Center and then building the Club Seats and Suites above the field level field house. That way you can just use Huggins for the visiting teams to dress in. That will keep the home team and the visiting team from having to share the same access point to the field, Anyway... JMHO..

If you don't have Corporate Boxes than you just assume stop what you are doing now, because it will all be for nothing... McNeese makes about 675K a year from it's 6500 season ticket holders, which we hope to up to 8,000 season tickets this year. BUT, McNeese makes apx. 350,000 a year off of the 13, ten seat VIP Suites and the 190 Club Seats it has in the SkyRanch (see Photo). That's around $1,100 per seat per year from the VIP BOX, and only about $15 per seat per year from the season ticket holders. You get much more bang for your buck with the VIP seats. That is why McNeese thought about including 450 more Club seats over the new field house. But now there is some talk about an addition to the SkyRanch now that it is paid for. It streatches from 30 to 30 with 4 decks. I guess they want to take it from EZ to EZ next.

Small point here... MOST SLC teams carry around 100 players, when you count the scout players and such. In the FCS teams are allowed a max of 63 scholarships. HOWEVER, those scholarships may be split up among a total of 85 players... That leaves a school around 15 or so for the scout team.

That would indeed be a nice sized facility... McNeese's new facility will be 46,413 SF once it is completed in 2009. This figure does NOT include the visitors dressing room, which is located in a separate facility located on the Southeast Corner of the stadium. It's about 1,600 square feet if I remember correctly. The MSU Weight room will be the largest in the State of Louisiana (even bigger than LSU's). It will have an indoor 40 yard track in it too. Here is what it will look like: