The Latest: Game "MORE THAN LIKELY" will be played in BR

Baton Rouge is ready and if Ike stays away, the game WILLLLLL be played here.

Alleva said that probably 20 times today.

The hold up is waiting on Ike.

 

I dont think its the AD's call and there have been conflicting reports out of the AD's office. Alleva says TS is ready but WJBO has reported that "dozens and dozens" of repair trucks and personal are at the stadium as of today.

 

From Entergy:

"The Baton Rouge area has never suffered damage as severe as that caused by Hurricane Gustav. The last storm caused damage close to this was Hurricane Andrew in 1992."

Note the words "close to this". Gustav is worse in many ways, not just power problems either.

 

but casey, it is about a city being able to handle those 93,000 people plus extras on campus Saturday

Heck, I still have family at my house. No power yet and no telling when they'll get it. Normalcy being restored? Not yet, probably not by this weekend.

 

How far away from campus have you strayed the past couple of days? I'm just curious, because I'm not sure you grasp exactly how bad the traffic problems are right now. There are still countless traffic signals that are not functioning, and not all of them are due to a lack of power. Many of them have suffered significant damage not only to their internal wiring, but to their structure as well. Therefore, the traffic problem will not be completely remedied when the whole city has power again.

Now, I'm not saying that the game could not be played because of the traffic issues in Baton Rouge. I am simply illustrating that things are not nearly as peachy keen in the city outside of campus as you seem to believe. Obviously, things will be better as Saturday draws near. But there is still a lot of work to be done.

That said, Ike seems to be a complete wild card. I've never seen a storm whose path was so grossly miscalculated so many times. It was originally supposed to go up the east coast of Florida, then up the middle of Florida, then to the panhandle, then to the Mississippi gulf coast. Now it may not even hit Texas. I realize that the accuracy of the path becomes more certain as time passes and more information is entered in the models. But geez, it's almost like they were guessing in the beginning. And I'm going to be skeptical about where this thing is going until it passes the mouth of the Mississippi.

 

dallas is a long way from houston, and even if south tex does get hit, i dont see why dallas couldnt be a venue. or shreveport.

but atlanta? :rolleye33:

 

I said it was comparable. Entergy agrees. LSU needs to play a game, and while it may be inconvenient for one Saturday this fall, I don't think many will mind.

The starting of classes so early is a different subject. But what are you going to do? If someone doesn't like Hurricanes and the aftermath they produce, they should probably relocate. It's gonna happen.

 

Independence Stadium makes the most sense to me...