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The first score of the 2005 LSU football season is in and it is Naysayers 7, Optimists 0.
Tiger Stadium's west upper deck almost certainly won't be ready for LSU's first home game Sept. 3 against North Texas. Likely the same is true for the Tigers' second game, Sept. 10 against Arizona State.
This, to many of us eyeballing construction "experts," is about as big a surprise as Tiger Woods winning another major title, which is to say not very. You don't need a graduate degree in mechanical engineering or be intimately familiar with concrete curing rates to look at the deck, and at the calendar, and back at the deck and opine, "That sucker ain't gonna be ready on time."
Yates Construction admitted as much Monday when it told Athletic Director Skip Bertman it couldn't guarantee the 2,000 seats on the northwest corner of the deck for the first two games. LSU then admitted it might not be able to seat alumni band members in the stadium for the Arizona State game. They will, according to athletic department spokesman Herb Vincent, get first shot at the 400 or so tickets needed should they come available.
LSU will be playing a shell game with a few thousand fans if all the west upper tickets get sold. It can afford to do that for the first two games, as 92,000 were not likely to show up for North Texas or Arizona State.
Tiger Stadium's west upper deck almost certainly won't be ready for LSU's first home game Sept. 3 against North Texas. Likely the same is true for the Tigers' second game, Sept. 10 against Arizona State.
This, to many of us eyeballing construction "experts," is about as big a surprise as Tiger Woods winning another major title, which is to say not very. You don't need a graduate degree in mechanical engineering or be intimately familiar with concrete curing rates to look at the deck, and at the calendar, and back at the deck and opine, "That sucker ain't gonna be ready on time."
Yates Construction admitted as much Monday when it told Athletic Director Skip Bertman it couldn't guarantee the 2,000 seats on the northwest corner of the deck for the first two games. LSU then admitted it might not be able to seat alumni band members in the stadium for the Arizona State game. They will, according to athletic department spokesman Herb Vincent, get first shot at the 400 or so tickets needed should they come available.
LSU will be playing a shell game with a few thousand fans if all the west upper tickets get sold. It can afford to do that for the first two games, as 92,000 were not likely to show up for North Texas or Arizona State.
