http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/201...ulman.html

Quote:The athletic department has sold or has reservations for season tickets for 18,000 and is looking for 12,000 to ensure a sold-out season.

"We've had amazing response. ... Even since Tuesday, we've sold over a 1,000 new tickets," Dickson said. "(That's) in addition to what we have already put down in secured deposits. We've done that since the end of the season through the (New Orleans Bowl) along with returning season ticketholders. I'm telling you, in that 30,000-capacity stadium we'd have as I'm talking today a little more than 12,000 seats left."

The stadium is "intimate"... the video shows the kind of sightlines that the stadium has... and they look pretty great. I think it will be sort of a Wrigley field-type deal, with a small-ish stadium built into an existing neighborhood, with emphasis on party decks, new orleans food, beer, and game day atmosphere.

no offense, but if I lived in that neighborhood I'd be p.o.

(04-04-2014 09:08 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/201...ulman.html

Quote:The athletic department has sold or has reservations for season tickets for 18,000 and is looking for 12,000 to ensure a sold-out season.

"We've had amazing response. ... Even since Tuesday, we've sold over a 1,000 new tickets," Dickson said. "(That's) in addition to what we have already put down in secured deposits. We've done that since the end of the season through the (New Orleans Bowl) along with returning season ticketholders. I'm telling you, in that 30,000-capacity stadium we'd have as I'm talking today a little more than 12,000 seats left."

The stadium is "intimate"... the video shows the kind of sightlines that the stadium has... and they look pretty great. I think it will be sort of a Wrigley field-type deal, with a small-ish stadium built into an existing neighborhood, with emphasis on party decks, new orleans food, beer, and game day atmosphere.

Stadium looks awesome. Can't wait to see the finished product. I bet that place will be rocking come this fall.

(04-04-2014 09:14 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  no offense, but if I lived in that neighborhood I'd be p.o.

Please. It's 6 days a year.

I live in a neighborhood with an MLB stadium and its got 35k people coming in 81 times a year. People find a way to embrace it.

(04-04-2014 09:27 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 09:14 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  no offense, but if I lived in that neighborhood I'd be p.o.

Please. It's 6 days a year.

I live in a neighborhood with an MLB stadium and its got 35k people coming in 81 times a year. People find a way to embrace it.

is that MLB stadium right in your back yard?

(04-04-2014 09:31 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 09:27 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 09:14 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  no offense, but if I lived in that neighborhood I'd be p.o.

Please. It's 6 days a year.

I live in a neighborhood with an MLB stadium and its got 35k people coming in 81 times a year. People find a way to embrace it.

is that MLB stadium right in your back yard?

2 blocks.

But there are only 9 homes who you could reasonably say this is right in their backyard. And Tulane made special considerations for them. There is a 20 foot setback from their property line, and we reduced the height on that side.

They bought a home in a university neighborhood with a baseball stadium already there. Its their own damn fault.

You move next to an airport or university expect expansion

(04-04-2014 09:14 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  no offense, but if I lived in that neighborhood I'd be p.o.

Dude...that city and all of its neighborhoods deal with about 2-3 weeks of Carnival Parades/celebrations/balls that brings in 1-2 Million people per year.

30,000 for 6 games per year is peanuts for a city like New Orleans...including that neighborhood...where a once 81,000 seat stadium use to sit that hosted Sugar Bowls, SEC Football Games and even Super Bowls.

NOTE: Approx 28,000 plus people visit, work, go to class at Tulane and its next door neighbor Loyola Univ each and every work day...so same number of folks on a Saturday won't be that much different.

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(04-04-2014 09:59 PM)KnightLight Wrote:  [Tulane's] neighborhood...where a once 81,000 seat stadium use to sit that hosted Sugar Bowls, SEC Football Games and even Super Bowls.

The original Tulane Stadium hosted the Sugar Bowl for 41 years in a row, three Super Bowls ('70, '72, '75) and at least 8 Saints games (7 reg. season + 1 or 2 exhibitions) a year from '67 to '74. In addition to 5 or 6 Tulane games a year from 1926-'74. Yulman Stadium is -- at most -- one-tenth of a mile from where Tulane Stadium was located, and holds less than half of the capacity. It took some doing, but the City of New Orleans eventually overruled the bout of NIMBYism in the surrounding neighborhood, and was right to do so.

(04-04-2014 09:35 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 09:31 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 09:27 PM)OUGwave Wrote:  

(04-04-2014 09:14 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  no offense, but if I lived in that neighborhood I'd be p.o.

Please. It's 6 days a year.

I live in a neighborhood with an MLB stadium and its got 35k people coming in 81 times a year. People find a way to embrace it.

is that MLB stadium right in your back yard?

2 blocks.

But there are only 9 homes who you could reasonably say this is right in their backyard. And Tulane made special considerations for them. There is a 20 foot setback from their property line, and we reduced the height on that side.

They bought a home in a university neighborhood with a baseball stadium already there. Its their own damn fault.

Wonder what it would have cost the university to buy those 9 homes?

Those neighbors will end up MAKING money on this stadium... their kids will sell lemonade or whatever to people walking down the block to go around to the stadium OR they'll sell their parking spots to stadium goers.

(04-04-2014 10:36 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  Wonder what it would have cost the university to buy those 9 homes?

I have wondered that myself many times over the last couple of years. I'd be especially curious to know how much they would've sold for in (say) October 2005.

If y'all can keep that thing full it's going to be an extremely fun place to watch games. If not, it will still be better than the dome.

I had no idea there was another school next to Tulane..do their students ever go to the games? It looks like they've got 3k undergrads...if y'all could find a way to interest a third of them that would be 1000 bodies. I don't know the relationship between the two schools but I'd certainly want to attend some games.

The school needs to buy them homes as they come available. Odds are you would have them all in 20 years.

(04-05-2014 07:59 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  The school needs to buy them homes as they come available. Odds are you would have them all in 20 years.

Yes.

(04-05-2014 07:59 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  The school needs to buy them homes as they come available. Odds are you would have them all in 20 years.

And do what with them?

Odds are, the codes for those residential area where the homes are located are different vs what is allowed on Tulane's campus.

6 games a year...owners probably will enjoy it (some might have lived there when games were played at old Tulane Stadium right next door)...heck, those in Wrigleyville enjoy 81 home games per year.

While I applaud TU, I'll always be astonished about dropping (pretty much squeezing) that stadium right up against those back yards. It sure looks to me like it would be great to grab those 10 houses or so and bring them down, get a bit of buffer space. But KL is probably right about their being some code restrictions. I guess TU would have to buy the whole dang street and rezone it.

Amazing they are heading to a sold out season. I guess I'll have to get tix on Stubhub or something!!

(04-05-2014 12:38 AM)ncbeta Wrote:  If y'all can keep that thing full it's going to be an extremely fun place to watch games. If not, it will still be better than the dome.

I had no idea there was another school next to Tulane..do their students ever go to the games? It looks like they've got 3k undergrads...if y'all could find a way to interest a third of them that would be 1000 bodies. I don't know the relationship between the two schools but I'd certainly want to attend some games.

I went to Loyola as an undergrad in the 70s. I can't honestly say there was that much interest in Tulane sports aside from the Tulane-LSU football game. Most Loyola students back then seemed to be either locals or foreign students from Central America. I'm sure the locals generally supported Tulane--but in those days Tulane football had a good deal of local support citywide.

Also, in the early 70s Loyola fielded a bball team which had local support. I believe the old Loyola Fieldhouse may have held more than Fogelman.

I think Loyola-Tulane still play in bball. I doubt if it's much of a rivalry, just a fun game.

(04-05-2014 08:35 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(04-05-2014 07:59 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  The school needs to buy them homes as they come available. Odds are you would have them all in 20 years.

And do what with them?

Odds are, the codes for those residential area where the homes are located are different vs what is allowed on Tulane's campus.

6 games a year...owners probably will enjoy it (some might have lived there when games were played at old Tulane Stadium right next door)...heck, those in Wrigleyville enjoy 81 home games per year.

SMU buys similar homes and uses them for professor housing so real homeowners have a buffer.