Best/Worst Facilities in the LSA

by **CP18** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:10 am

...off of a topic in the General Forum....Best and Not the Best Facilities in the LSA?

Best: I hear Baylor has a new setup, and Texas State's is pretty nice when they are on their women's soccer field.

Not the Best: Baylor's old field, SMU, LSU

Thoughts, comments. Please do not attack anyone's facilities either, keep it civil. We all wish we played in glorious venues.

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by **tlaing1** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:05 pm

Chris, brother, why you always baggin on LSU? First the colors...now our fields? Haha, anyway, FYI LSU is currently having a new set of Rec Sports fields built across the street from the Golf Course and should be ready for next season. (Even though they've told us that since I was a Junior and now I'm an Alum) Hopefully we can get off this list ASAP.

by **the lax** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:13 pm

From the pictures on SMU websites, their field looks pretty good. Nice brown grass with iron gate around the field and houses overlooking the field.
Whats wrong with that?

by **Campbell** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:41 pm

Baylor does have some nice fields, although they stuck them down by the river on the soggy end for the UT game because of a women's tourney. We are very fortunate at TSU with the soccer stadium, nice seating and a very nice field. Its hard to criticize any team's field though, since we are all pretty much at the mercy of our schools.

by **tamu33** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:17 pm

Houston's Carl Lewis Stadium has a very nice surface and has plenty of seating. Only problem, I saw, was that the track is between the playing field and the bleachers.

by **cowboy** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:37 pm

sorry, but i believe us here at osu have all of ya'll beat on the worst field
baylor never got to see it cause of the snow but it's a sad excuse for s field.

by **cgibber13** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:25 pm

I got a chance to see Baylor's new fields and they are nice and can now play under lights! My tops are BU and TSU I also like Trinity, but I am not sure if they still play there.

Least fav. I will take your word on OSU then LSU.

by **OldBalls** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:53 pm

Trinity is aight...if you are as slow (errrr, drunk as some like to say. "If you're drunk, get your a** off the field..." "Coach, I'm not drunk, I'm just slow!") as I am and you don't like to run all over a normal size field like me.

Fellas from Boston know what I am talking about...The size of that field still gives me nightmares!

TSU has the nicest fields, that I have seen, by far in the LSA.

by **yoink** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:10 pm

TSU...they got some hot chicks that come out also

by **natgoal25** on Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:04 pm

tsu field is pretty nice....

i think the best is the UH carl lewis stadium.. the surface is really nice...but yea the bleachers are on the other side of the track

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by **OldBalls** on Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:11 am

If we are talking about chicks, then I guess you should put TSU and Tech in the same category at the top of the list...Dumb as a box of rocks but other than that, they are great.

by **bobcatlacrosse13** on Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:32 am

I may have a biased opinion, but I would agree that our field is the best and our girls are the hottest.

by **doctorsauce75** on Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:07 am

TSU has the best fields I've seen in the LSA....even when I was a rookie and we played at the old West Campus field (now long-since bulldozed and turned into a women's soccer field) I thought it was a solid facility.

My favorite place in terms of atmosphere though was at Sam Houston...stone walls surrounding a sunken field...had a sorta Gladiator feel about it.

I played in some sloppy contests at SFA...I think every time we visited it had just rained and at least one goal was submerged in soup...and I stunk it up at trying to play defense in the slop.

Of course, no matter where I played, I was happy to be playing...even when A&M and UT took us to the woodshed.

by **CP18** on Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:31 am

My favorite place in terms of atmosphere though was at Sam Houston...stone walls surrounding a sunken field...had a sorta Gladiator feel about it.

Doc Sauce, the old SHSU field you describe is Historic Pritchett Field, home of SHSU Football until 1984! The field was built as part of Roosevelt's WPA.

The following shots are from a book written about the 125 year history of Sam Houston State. Lacrosse got some pub, here are some pics with the captions.

"Sam Houston Lacrosse went 6-3 in conference play for the season. They had a great year marked by the recruitment of an All-American goalie from Colorado State University."

"Pat Atwood, the leader in assists, takes a crank shot at the Tulane goal."

"Students having a good time at a mixer."

by **JRich27** on Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:35 am

dont know how many have seen carl lewis stadium at UH but its a great field to play on, and our practice field is the alumni center that is the indoor football facilities on turf.