Inside The $22 Million Dollar Upgrade: Exploring Louisiana Tech's JOE AILLET Stadium

[@kylee8672]

This was a cool video! Thanks for showing some love to our little school. You definitely need to come back and check out our new score board. The only one bigger in the state is at LSU. Coincidentally enough, I watched this the night before our 2024 New Mexico State football match-up.

[@michaelradin]

@@kylee8672 love it! Glad you liked the video! Check out the other videos I have please!

[@kylee8672]

@@michaelradin will do! Also, a professor of mine made a cameo so that's pretty cool.

[@dsmith9626]

Y'all might not know this but Pittsburgh Steeler Hall of Fame and 4-time Super Bowl champion(barf...I'm a COWBOYS FAN so this is painful sorta) Terry Bradshaw was quarterback at LA Tech back in the day. He's also from my adopted "hometown" since 1991 of Shreveport. I attended NLU(Northeast Louisiana University) now Louisiana Monroe and a bitter rival to Tech. Back in the day BOTH NLU and LA Tech had two of the premiere women's basketball teams. Ruston is a nice town. I drive through it on my trips from Shreveport to Monroe several times a month. It's cool to see my "neck o the woods" on YT. But honestly my allegiance as a native Arkansan runs deep Razorback Red since the 70s. But it was fun following NLU when they won the National Championship in Division II football. Stan Humphries(also from Shreveport) was the quarterback. Fun times indeed.

[@Bdawg-2010]

Karl Malone played basketball there as well. I live gere

[@michelecojulun4232]

Amazing... definitely a program worth looking at... thank you for this amazing tour..very informative !

[@michaelradin]

Glad you liked it! 🥺

[@Vandakai]

This was awesome and as a LATech Bulldog fan I enjoyed this :D

[@michaelradin]

@@Vandakai aww thank you so much! Have more CFB coming out!

[@RedFlames-ty5lu]

Should come back sometime. See the upgrades Tech is doing to the stadium. Also i was at that game it was heart breaking for me as a Tech fan.

[@michaelradin]

They are upgrading it again! I was just there! What’s the new upgrades!?

[@RedFlames-ty5lu]

@@michaelradin yep they torn down the old score board to build a new one that's bigger.(3128 ft. Biggest score board in Louisiana)It's a two phase project building. First they will put the score board up and then build a whole building over there. It will take two years to complete the whole thing.

[@michaelradin]

@@RedFlames-ty5lu your kidding! Well atleast I got footage of phase 1! Won’t be my last! Any good restaurants around, next time I visit I want to do a video on a top unique restaurant

[@RedFlames-ty5lu]

@@michaelradin that wasn't phase one you got a video of. The first phase will be done next football season. As far as restaurants go I haven't personally ate at many but there's a place called the dawg house down town I heard was good. But I don't know I don't live in Ruston but I do go to Tech. Ruston in my opinion is a great college town with great people and restaurants but I haven't been to many. The school is such a great place. I personally think Tech is such an underrated school.

[@michaelradin]

@@RedFlames-ty5lu I actually went to the dog house the night before! Had the fried green tomatoes for the first time. Was pretty good!

[@ThatWellthyGirl]

Great content as always. So underrated 🎉

[@michaelradin]

😊 thank you!

[@judehanchey]

Let’s go you got RHS in it 💪 GO BEARCATS

[@landon13198]

Fun fact! Tech actually just updated their jumbotron! The one in the video is the old one!

[@michaelradin]

@@landon13198 again they updated it! That was fast! What does it look like now?

[@michaelradin]

Is it updated in the ncaa football game?

[@porterfurniss4469]

It’s huge now. It’s about as tall as the field house

[@michaelradin]

@@porterfurniss4469 I need to go back!

[@rktay52]

Really quality content. I enjoyed this and the New Mexico State video. I’d like to see more college facilities!

[@michaelradin]

Thank you so much! I have a Nevada football facility video coming next, then savannah bananas cruise video and then we hit basketball TV all season! Very behind with real day time. But I have a tone more for you getting better every video! Glad you enjoyed. Let me know what you want me to focus on for your liking!

[@dkgaming1842]

I play as LATech in dynasty mode on collage football 25 figured I’d learn more stuff about them 😊

[@michaelradin]

@@dkgaming1842 I love the colors! I just won the championship with USC! I love the 12 team playoffs

[@phantomplayz7952]

Took a tour of LA Tech, and I love it. I live in way down south louisiana but I think i’d rather it over UL

[@michaelradin]

@@phantomplayz7952 loved visiting and the complex updated is really really nice!

[@mixa7039]

Man I reallyy wish I was in Ruston Louisiana seems like a nice place

[@michaelradin]

@@mixa7039 the place was amazing! Really loved it !

[@kaitlyncoskun6069]

This is a stunning campus

[@michaelradin]

Yes it is!

[@jaycie3558]

Born and raised in Montgomery Alabama always was a fan. I went to a couple games for it being my first time going there and Absolutley loved it. Just went to the spring game this past year #HBTD

[@michaelradin]

Love that! How was your experience!

[@jaycie3558]

@@michaelradin it was great! Ruston isn’t all that much and what I mean by that is that it’s not like a New York or a LA It’s pretty much a hole in the wall but it’s a nice hole in the wall. The whole town was great the food there is excellent. The people were nice Everything about it was amazing. Definetly going back again👍🏻 love the video man!

[@willcrawford7896]

FYI it's pronounced Joe "Aye-YAY" stadium.

[@zbolt_]

Im a freshman at Tech right now. I'm in the band so i get to spend a lot of time here lol

[@michaelradin]

@@zbolt_ how do you like it!?

[@zbolt_]

@michaelradin love it. Everyone is so friendly and they did so much with the renovations

[@michaelradin]

ALRIGHT WHO IS A FAN OF WAFFLE HOUSE?? Not sure why it gets so much hate because the waffle house in RUSTON was A+! Thoughts?

[@michelecojulun4232]

The Waffle House is a Unique Breakfast Experience... ENJOY

[@ThatWellthyGirl]

so many better places 😂😂

[@michaelradin]

@@ThatWellthyGirl name me better options in Ruston

[@PrideT2D]

I live in SC, but Waffle House is amazing it’s not for the boujee I prefer my cooks to do being doing things they shouldn’t when I pull up 😂 just stopping by on my CFB 25 team recruiting trail

[@michaelradin]

@@PrideT2D I love that! I can’t wait until ncaa 25 comes out!

[@halomastersT10]

As a Louisianian, from south Louisiana near baton rouge, go tigers lol. But I have had a soft spot for the bulldogs, something about the colors as a kid, nice to see someone visiting our swamp

[@cane870]

Ruston is no where near the swamp

[@halomastersT10]

@@cane870 our state is a swamp brother, as a southern Louisianian its just a saying for me and others

[@michaelradin]

This was a school I always played with in NCAA football 🏈 back in the day. Was really cool seeing the school and town for the first time. Amazing people and a great college town. Plus zero traffic!

[@almostkinda]

​@@cane870Large swamps in north Louisiana too. Black bayou in Monroe is 20 mins away..

[@cashmoney994]

@@cane870the longest bayou in the world is in Arkansas

[@justinlachney2743]

I almost quit watching when you pronounced Joe Aillet as "A-lit" ... It is pronounced "I-yay."

[@michaelradin]

Watch the short! I think I said it right after hearing someone say his name doing research. When I made the video, I was 50/50 on what way to say it and I picked wrong 😑

[@Skcoop03]

"Aillet" is pronounced "eye-yay"

[@michaelradin]

@@Skcoop03 why don’t they spell it that way then haha!

[@Skcoop03]

@@michaelradin Louisiana has a heavy french influence in many things.

[@michaelradin]

@@Skcoop03 I love that!

[@Bri-j8u]

🐶⚾️🥩🎥

[@michaelradin]

❤

[@jimmyneutron6682]

Rusvegas! HBTD

[@michaelradin]

@@jimmyneutron6682 heck ya!

[@jimmyneutron6682]

If you’re ever back in Ruston on a gameday check out Dawg House and tailgating in hideaway park!

[@mr.abt2842]

Hey I go here

[@michaelradin]

@@mr.abt2842 how do you like it!?

[@RobertOlson-bm4of]

Let's Go Britney Spears.

[@michaelradin]

@@RobertOlson-bm4of 🎉

[@ajblell]

Way to make us look like hicks. Ruston is a beautiful town. And it Aillet is pronounced Eye yay

[@michaelradin]

@@ajblell I loved it! One of my favorite locations I had a game at. Ya I looked it up on the internet before and the two people I heard said it the way I said it. Couple people told me there is two ways to say it! Oh well, next time I will say it right

[@RobertOlson-bm4of]

How of Britney.

[@michaelradin]

@@RobertOlson-bm4of 🫒

[@cmikesmith664]

Goofy looking stadium. One of the worst 1A in my opinion. Plus, you completely butchered the pronunciation. 😂

[@michaelradin]

@@cmikesmith664 ya west coast kid not knowing how to talk like a southern boy. Blame the random KZbin guy that snuck into the field and kept saying the name wrong 😑 that was my source for saying it right lol

[@cmikesmith664]

@@michaelradin, You made a really good video. LA Tech is a great school with great students. In my opinion, it’s an underrated school. I’ve watched many football games here, and was embarrassed that this was our stadium. There were a lot of afterthoughts that made it just goofy looking.

[@RobertOlson-bm4of]

Never Have I ever been to A Waffle House.

[@michaelradin]

@@RobertOlson-bm4of Waffle House > IHOP

[@AsapNews17]

On my rebuild with them on cfb 25 beat 15 NC state , now ranked 25 🔥

[@michaelradin]

@@AsapNews17 ohhh I’m using my usc Trojans rebuild! How’s the game? You like it? Also is the stadium updated for LATECH?

[@AsapNews17]

@@michaelradin I mean it looks like how it does in real life , islets as I’m from 2014???? If I don’t have the game GET IT

[@michaelradin]

@@AsapNews17 I’m m coming back from a DC trip with 2 baseball videos today. Downloading it when I get home