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expansion or major renovation would obstruct or eliminate that key road, which is the only real access roadway to the Pete Maravich As- sembly Center, and absolutely necessary for such things as TV trucks.) Tiger Stadium is old and enormous — the sixth-largest stadium in the world — so the expansion of amenities isn’t the only construction project in its future. Just keeping the thing standing takes enormous time, effort and money. Preservation and rehabilitation are top priorities for the school. Simple things like painting the concrete are necessary to preserve its structure, but even the replacement of those hundreds of exterior windows in recent years was a necessary invest- ment — not because there was anything to protect on the other side of those windows (there isn’t), but because the old ones were deterio- rating and taking the stadium with them. Some parts of the stadium’s plumbing, meanwhile, are almost a century old, and accessing said pipes is nearly impossible, requiring the literal demolition of stadium walls to access the pipes when leaks are discovered. By and large, the dorm rooms in Tiger Stadium are not used today. Though some have been converted to storage closets, the rooms themselves are unfit for habitation due to the construction materials used decades ago. Still, one can’t help but think how great it would be to live on the best real estate in all the Gulf South.

“ When I was a little kid we had to go see the football team walking down Victory Hill to the marching of the Golden Band from Tigerland. I played cymbals on the drumline when I was student at LSU.” - MARC ARDOIN ; MY LSU SUPERSTITION

“ It’s customary to cook the mascot of the opposing team whenever you can. We grill alligator for

Florida and pork for the Razorbacks.” - BIG WILL ; MY LSU SUPERSTITION

“ My brother-in-law used to paint himself purple and gold head-to-toe every home game. Not painting my body in team colors is my only regret of my time at LSU. ” - J. NOGUEIRA ; MY LSU SUPERSTITION

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