The swamp is being replaced???

JoeBC

Heard a rumor that the architects behind Buraspor's new stadium were in talks with the higher ups at UF about renovating/replacing the swamp.

Tarpon Nole

The Swamp was used by Louisiana-Lafayette before it was copied by UF....

Cajun Field's surface is set two feet below sea level in a natural bowl. With the below-sea level playing surface, a total of four 60 horsepower (45 kW) pumps and a sophisticated drainage system help keep the field in solid playing condition even during the frequent south Louisiana rainstorms. The subsurface stadium requires many fans to walk down to their seats. Ragin' Cajuns football players and their opponents enter Cajun Field through an underground tunnel from the UL Lafayette athletics complex.

In 1988, the stadium was nicknamed "The Swamp," as then noted on stadium signage, in the school yearbook and, a year later, in the 1989 official Southwestern Louisiana sports media guide. The characteristics which helped create the tradition of the swamp-referenced nickname are tied to the field's early 1970s construction and even refer back to the original football field for what was then the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute in the early 1900s. The university's first football field was on the main campus adjacent to a small cypress pond, which later became Cypress Lake, also nicknamed The Swamp.

The Swamp nickname also fits with the area's geography, comprising many bayous and wetlands, including the Atchafalaya Basin and the nearby Gulf of Mexico marshlands. The National Wetlands Research Center, a United States Geological Survey research facility at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is located less than a half-mile away from Cajun Field.

The other Division I FBS stadium nicknamed "The Swamp," Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at the University of Florida, did not adopt the nickname until 1991 when Steve Spurrier bestowed the nickname on the stadium.

Calusa

That'll be the laughing stock of NCAA Football. :facepalm

JoeBC wrote: »

Tarpon Nole

Calusa wrote: »

That'll be the laughing stock of NCAA Football. :facepalm

looks like a python not an alligator

treetopflyn

Lord I hope this is true.

tw7612

Word on the street is...

If Florida builds a new high dollar stadium, they will forgo all away games on their schedule and only play at home... They would lose too much money/revenue otherwise.... They would also replace FSU and any SEC team ranked in the top 20 on their schedule for other competitive out of conference teams...

loose_cannon

I heard they were going to incorporate a bunch of "classrooms" into the new stadium so they could suck educational funding out of the state. Oh, wait, there was some other school that pulled that stunt...

treetopflyn

loose_cannon wrote: »

I heard they were going to incorporate a bunch of "classrooms" into the new stadium so they could suck educational funding out of the state. Oh, wait, there was some other school that pulled that stunt...

Pretty **** clever wasn't it. The only thing that sucks is no Thursday night games. :-(

JoeBC

loose_cannon wrote: »

I heard they were going to incorporate a bunch of "classrooms" into the new stadium so they could suck educational funding out of the state. Oh, wait, there was some other school that pulled that stunt...

Why is classrooms in quotes? I took classes at University Center inside real classrooms...

RedBaron

Calusa wrote: »

That'll be the laughing stock of NCAA Football. :facepalm

:idiot

treetopflyn wrote: »

Lord I hope this is true.

:idiot x 2

RedBaron

tw7612 wrote: »

Word on the street is...

If Florida builds a new high dollar stadium, ..

:blahblah


Word on the street.....UF will not have a ceremony at their stadium to recognize the great accomplishments of one of their main rivals.

loose_cannon

treetopflyn wrote: »

Pretty **** clever wasn't it. The only thing that sucks is no Thursday night games. :-(

Would the noise disturb the tutors?

Tarpon Nole

JoeBC wrote: »

Why is classrooms in quotes? I took classes at University Center inside real classrooms...

I took a communications class in university center C.

was pretty cool walking by two Heismans and two MNC trophies twice a week

Tarpon Nole

RedBaron wrote: »

:blahblah


Word on the street.....UF will not have a ceremony at their stadium to recognize the great accomplishments of one of their main rivals.

BOOOOOOM

Oysterbottomboy

JoeBC wrote: »

Why is classrooms in quotes? I took classes at University Center inside real classrooms...

Yes, College Algebra for me. That was very real...

tw7612

RedBaron wrote: »

:blahblah


Word on the street.....UF will not have a ceremony at their stadium to recognize the great accomplishments of one of their main rivals.

If by "rival" do you mean a team too chicken ***** too keep Miami on their schedule after the continued thrashing they received year in and year out?????? Or do you mean rival in a more non-traditional sense??

Flash

Well I think it is pretty cool looking. Now thinking what other In State Colleges could do.....FSU could have like a Wagon Train with arrows sticking out of them and Miami could have Seagull poop. :eek:

IS IT SLOT

it looks like no airflow . . ..a sauna comes to mine

Seminoleken

Flash wrote: »

Miami could have Seagull poop. :eek:

:Popcorn

RedBaron

tw7612 wrote: »

If by "rival" do you mean a team too chicken ***** too keep Miami on their schedule after the continued thrashing they received year in and year out??????

Help me out a little.....what was the series record between the two schools when we dropped you from our schedule?

JoeBC

RedBaron wrote: »

Help me out a little.....what was the series record between the two schools when we dropped you from our schedule?

25-24 Gata but Miami had won 7 of the last 10 (before that UF had won 7 straight), now it's 28-26 Miami...

http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/series/miaf/fla.shtml

Calusa

It looks like a blow-up pool toy from Wal-Mart. Perfect fit.

treetopflyn

Seminoleken

JoeBC wrote: »

25-24 Gata but Miami had won 7 of the last 10 (before that UF had won 7 straight), now it's 28-26 Miami...

http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/series/miaf/fla.shtml

Yup.

RedBaron

JoeBC wrote: »

25-24 Gata but Miami had won 7 of the last 10 (before that UF had won 7 straight), now it's 28-26 Miami...

Thanks Joe...(I knew the answer but wanted him to go find it)

Yep, the previous 6 was 3-3 tie
The previous 10 was 3-7 favoring UM
While the previous 20 was 12-8 favoring UF

Not exactly a continued thrashing they received year in and year out

Just more smack someone told him that he believes to be fact. Fail.

Seminoleken

treetopflyn wrote: »

:Spittingcoffee

That's funny stuff.

BnT

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BnT

:Spittingcoffee

treetopflyn wrote: »

:Spittingcoffee I cant stop laughing at this!

loose_cannon

treetopflyn wrote: »

That is a good one, tree.

tw7612

RedBaron wrote: »

Thanks Joe...(I knew the answer but wanted him to go find it)

Yep, the previous 6 was 3-3 tie
The previous 10 was 3-7 favoring UM
While the previous 20 was 12-8 favoring UF

Not exactly a continued thrashing they received year in and year out

Just more smack someone told him that he believes to be fact. Fail.

You're right again Red, Miami was in no way dominating Florida on the field when Florida made the decision to drop them from the schedule.... Let me see, this happened in the mid 80's, no? Who was it that was so hot back then??? I just can't recall (:cough: national champions ships in the 80's: :cough: :cough: ) I remember now, Florida dropped Miami because of revenue issues or was it they wanted to play other quality non-conference teams....

I am just glad for your sake the Gators are finally won one and are now 1-6 against the irrelevant Miami Hurricanes....

RedBaron

RedBaron wrote: »

Yep, the previous 6 was 3-3 tie
The previous 10 was 3-7 favoring UM
While the previous 20 was 12-8 favoring UF

Not exactly a continued thrashing they received year in and year out

Just more smack someone told him that he believes to be fact. Fail.

perhaps with some cough meds you can read the actual results instead of those in your head.