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Instead of stealing from others, I'll just link to it instead...

http://www.anygivensaturday.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21227

Now from what and others saw on our respective trips to Beaumont, their football stadium, from the outside, didn't really look all that bad, and I'm sure we did not see it in tip top shape either.

Who knows, but with Lamar, TAMCC, and even UT San Antonio talking football once again, the SLC may be a big one in the coming years football wise.

http://www.panews.com/sportsbobwest/local_story_083201958.html

...The ball is definitely rolling toward Lamar University bringing back football. In its meetings last week, the Texas State University System approved expenditures for 2009 of $6.5 million for Cardinal Stadium renovation and $3.6 million for the renovation of the J.B. Higgins Fieldhouse. LU president Jimmy Simmons said restarting football is still contingent on the university raising enough in donations and pledges to cover additional costs that could be in the $10 million range. The TSUS funds can be used only in conjunction with Lamar playing football...

small update on things in Beaumont...

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18212337&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=583964&rfi=6

doesnt look like it is getting any closer in Cards country...

LINK

Lamar football is dead and buried; may it rest in peace
By RUSH WOOD, The Enterprise
06/29/2007
Updated 07/01/2007 11:17:56 PM CDT

On Dec. 14, 1989, Lamar University endured perhaps the grimmest setback in its athletic history.

Just 16 days after the Cardinals staged an 80-yard touchdown drive in the final two minutes to notch a 22-17 come-from-behind victory over McNeese State, Lamar's regents - by a 5-4 margin - voted to discontinue the football program...

from our friends at Katfans.com:

http://lamar.edu/newsevents/news/207_5895.htm

Football fee plan adjusted to benefit students
12/4/2007 If Lamar University students approve a referendum in January to start a football program at Lamar University, and the Texas State University System Board of Regents approves the measure in February, it will start the clock running toward the first conference games in Fall 2010.

These actions would immediately create the need for money to hire a coach, to begin renovations and construction on a football complex and to support other activities related to bringing the sport to Lamar. To secure the funds, the university would issue revenue bonds against the anticipated revenue generated by the student fee.

Originally, the university administration had planned to begin charging the student fee in Fall 2008, collecting the fees during the two years before the beginning of conference play in order to have funds available for construction. The revised plan is to defer the student fee until Fall 2009. The university will meet the needs during the first year from other revenue sources...






http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19084754&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6

Lamar University lays out football game plan
By: PERRYN KEYS, The Enterprise
12/05/2007
Updated 12/04/2007 11:45:47 PM CST

BEAUMONT - Although students at Lamar University still are likely to vote in January whether to approve a fee that could help reinstate football, the fee probably would not kick in until 2009, school officials said Tuesday.

But make no mistake, President Jimmy Simmons said: The university still plans to bring back football - and it still needs help from the student body and from donors to do so.

Simmons said Lamar hopes to keep its proposed timeline, which includes massive renovations to facilities and putting a team on the field for 2010.

For that to happen, the school needs a simple-majority vote from students in the January referendum. In addition, Lamar needs private donations - probably in the millions - and permission from its governing system, the Texas State University Board of Regents...

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19119330&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=583964&rfi=6

Lamar wants to bring back football, but it takes more than want-to; it takes money - a lot of it
By PERRYN KEYS, The Enterprise

BEAUMONT - A football program has not yet returned to Lamar University, but construction work to Cardinal Stadium has already begun.

Actually, it's deconstruction work.

Last week, crews started to disassemble the press box atop Lamar's football facility, taking down wooden boards and window panes that have stood, lifelessly, for more than two years since Hurricane Rita blew through town...

http://beaumontenterprise.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19120944&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=583964&rfi=6

Southland Conference could accept new Lamar team
By PERRYN KEYS, The Enterprise
12/17/2007
Updated 12/17/2007 12:10:49 AM CST

If Lamar University re-instates football, the Southland Conference will probably give it a home.

SLC commissioner Tom Burnett said last week he's had preliminary discussions with Lamar officials about joining the Southland Conference as a football member.

"We haven't tackled everything from A to Z, obviously," Burnett said. "But yes, we have talked to them a little bit about possibilities."...

thanks to TT and our friends at katfans.com....looks like Lamar and its students passed a student fee increase to help pave the way for the return of football...links and artciles included in the below thread


http://www.katfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7418

That is awesome! That would be one less OOC game we would have to try and schedule.

I remember when Ken Stephens and a bunch of Wampus Cats went there.

I agree with Monkey. There are only 8 schools in the SLC that have football teams. Adding the teams in the SLC who don't have football at the present time means a future competitive conference year in and year out.

I do too.

Unless they updated it significantly the stadium has a long way to go. I was on an ABC TV regional crew that did a game out of there back in the early 80s and it couldn't even supply enough electricity to power the production truck and uplink truck. A generator truck had to be brought in that was so noisy people inside the stadium were complaining about it.

they are already renovating their press box. The old one was off a few weeks back when we were there, and they've already begun the new one...

Am I understanding it right? Is their SGA financing it like ours did the men's soccer?