Jackson Jambalaya

Don't worry any other needed funds to complete this project. Kenny Stokes has a way of making things happen without paying the bills.

Everyone is complaining about the size. Big freaking deal! Let 'em building a 100,000 seat domed stadium and make a Super Bowl bid...as long as they pay for the whole thing with private money.

Awesome! This sounds like a great idea. I see no flaws at all in this plan for a new 50,000-seat domed stadium in Jackson. I challenge anyone reading this article to come up with any better way to spend tax dollars in Jackson than this. I challenge you -- come on, do it...do it...do it...

Checking facts?

Current location seats 60,000 but is less than half full on gameday?

Current location not sooo bad on crime?

Crime in and around new location?????

Big time concerts are coming to that location and bring with it locals from the metro area?

Just asking?

If it gets them out of Veterans, have at it....

I think they should put John Burwell in charge as project manager. We need someone with a proven record of accomplishment in the driver's seat.

Surprised Kingfish is a week or more behind the curve on this one. Won't get through the legislature. Clarion is all over this one.

Have the MBA students @ Millsaps collected all the evidence on this yet? Can't move forward without their blessing.

I'm still waiting for the TREMENDOUS techy-techy outcome from their aquistion from the old Allstate buiding! That was gonna be a Rib-Eye Steak on the JSU Grill ya'll! Since then, I've not heard a peep about anything relating to JSU and that juicy Allstate facility. I know that Allstate made out like a fat-rat out of that whole deal, and very little has been said in the afterwake, but still...please connect the dots.

2012 Attendance Numbers for JSU Home Games:

Southern U. 20,713
Prairie View 6,566
MVSU 10,000
Alabama A&M 8,445
Alcorn 30,000

Avg. 15,145

Yeah, I guess they really need a 50,000 seat dome arena. I'll miss seeing the vultures eat tailgating scraps on Mondays after home games.

Where's the Power Point?!

Won't this be a huge plus for attracting convention type business?

No need to be rude and crude 6:22. But, the only way you'd know that is if you were down there fighting with the vultures for a chicken bone. Fess up!.

And UMC will foot the bulk of the bill by buying Memorial from JSU.

Save room for Amway! This could change everything.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/sports/2013/02/7987921/madoff-ravaged-mets-enter-stadium-deal-amway

I've never been to a JSU tailgating but would love to. All tailgating is fun. All tailgating is valuable. As long as folks are reasonably-well behaved, enjoy themselves and others and get to share recipes and see folks not seen for awhile, the day has been well spent. Unless you stay in a bad mood, there's no such thing as a 'bad day tailgating'.

NCAA basketball is a better sport, but the area of college sports is a mire. Higher education will be under pressure in the future as the college degree loses clout, learning goes online, high school quality sours, and traditional college enrollments drop. Sports is seen as the marketing tool or an avenue for disadvantaged students. Sports is a profit center in only a few cases.

At least they will keep all the bullets contained inside the dome.

4:38 the Alcorn game was in Lorman. Therefore avg is lower.

10:30 said, ". Sports is a profit center in only a few cases." Tell that to Florida, Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, UCLA, Michigan, Oregon and about 20 other schools.

Sports is not intended as a 'profit center', but college football floats the boat of many a school.

The sad fact is, this is typical of "leadership" in African-American institutions. Specifically, I mean buying in to ideas long after the winners have won and just before the bubble bursts. Higher Ed is about to collapse under the weight of its own inefficiency. More specifically, the winners of the college sports arms race were long ago decided and none are in the FCS. So of course now is the time JSU wants to double down on taxpayer funded luxury goods.

Maybe they should put it in Madison? It would be entertaining to see Queen Mary have an absolute COW over that.

It's only by the Grace of God and a measure of pure luck that Ayers did not require it.

is this the expansion into Madison that has been in the news---now that is funny--Queen Mary was bust a gut!!! too damn funny.

All I have to say is if the alumni and supporters can pay for it--go for it! No red cent from taxpayers!

I think it's a great idea. The dome will be the centerpiece of a west Jackson renaissance. Next door will be a 50,000 square foot mall with space for 100 merchants. A four star hotel will adjoin, as will space for residential units.

BB King's will open a restaurant in the arcade area, next to the monorail station which will connect JSU with Metrocenter, Westland Plaza and Hawkins Field.

Moving sidewalks will carry students from the new, state-of-the-art dormitory to various areas of the campus, and environmentally friendly hoverbuses will shuttle tailgaters to Farish Street after the game for a night of dancing in one of the district's seventeen blues clubs.

In the final phase, Universal Studios will open a satellite of their Orlando theme park on Gallatin Street, next to the new basketball arena, built to house Jackson's new NBA franchise.

How can you not want to see such wonderful things? Do you hate Jackson that much? Are you so blinded by racism that you refuse to support Jackson's future?

50,000 seats? That's enough for err'body left in Jackson!

Maybe all the haters are headed to church and come home with a renewed spirit of brotherhood and common purpose. And Ben will stop posting vile comebacks.

The article says that JSU says the Legislature has approved $75 million in bonds for this. Surely not?

Inane and indicative are two words that come to mind.

Killed in committee 10:25.

50,000 seats. 15,000 average attendance. Am I missing something???

If the UMMC pays for it, that will be make my point. College alumni run things in this state. They find a way to perpetuate their sports teams, institutions, and self-image. The state as a whole is the loser to that low level of political organization. College teams play way too many games to really have a positive academic purpose. Thirty basketball and over a dozen football games is overkill.

3:00 PM; I can't decide if you're an idiot or just tootin' a doobie. Who are you to decide what's 'too many games' or what level of games have 'a positive academic purpose'.

Have you ever thought about making sense or do you just ramble on? "College alumni run things in this state"? Really! Come in from pooper-scooper duty in the back yard and have some warmed-over pizza. Lay out a matching tie and try to get two socks that are close to resembling each other for the morrow.

3:59, its apparent that NCAA is a racket and will gladly take over university life if you will let them. Google 'NCAA scandal', sir.

Aristotle said scholars should not work, they should be devoted to learning. Playing basketball or football for half the year is working. Sports is not a proper academic subject though it has been given that status.

When the university was created in Europe in the Middle Ages it was attached to a cathedral and hence the name, college, as the faculty were also religious officers and the only learned men around.

Colleges are private clubs heavily subsidized by public monies. The public is being cheated by higher ed the same way high schools do...unless you are on the gravy train. In our state one could call our universities 'tribes' which is a lowly form of organization and does not benefit the state as a whole. A university is a ideal academy that benefits a very broad territory perhaps larger than a state. We have no university in Mississippi worthy of the name.

The University of Miss has a fine teaching hospital that is a regional and state institution so credit them. They have only an few basketball and softball clubs.

Hehe he hahahahahaha, Jackson State Dome - hahahahahaha!

I keep thinking.....JSU Doomed Dome.

@5:32; yep, doobie it is.

Does anyone remember if the current stadium was gifted to JSU or did they purchase it?

Reason I ask--if it was gifted to the college and the college doesn't want it anymore and wants a new one, are they going to gift it to UMMC so they can have parking?

and I agree--assenine to build a new one--not needed, and taxpayers shuold not be on the hook for it either.

@12:38, so it died in committee? According to JSU's spokesman, it passed the House. That's kind of an important thing to get wrong.

JSU has conveniently forgotten that in the contract with the state of Mississippi, the title to the stadium and land reverts back to UMMC in the event that JSU gets its own stadium. All this noise about selling the property or developing it by JSU is just that. Noise.

Something this absurd and only 40, um 41 comments???

Hot off the press from the Jackson Free Pravda:

"The most glaring number in the study is the reported contributions from private donors to the JSU athletic program from 2006 to 2011: $0. By comparison, conference rival Alcorn State University reported $150,448 in contributions over that time period. The University of Mississippi reported about $37.2 million and Mississippi State reported about $29.7 million."

Yes ZERO. NADA. ZIP. NOT A GD PENNY. JSU had NO private contributions. Asking for faith in a bodacious, silly, ridiculous project with NO "at home" faith makes you shake your head in amazement.

@March 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM: ROTFLMAO! That was comedy gold there!

But 5:50 PM those are exactly the type of taxpayer funded boondoggles they do in Jackson.