Although it hopefully won't be necessary, and early signs are good, Turpin Stadium is the backup site for Saturday's football contest between Delta State and McNeese State.
McNeese played a home game here after Hurricane Rita in 2005, hosting Texas Southern in a game that NSU officials helped broker. Rita cost the Demons a shot at the Tigers, which ultimately almost certainly cost NSU a winning record (finishing 5-5 without playing a team they had easily handled a year ago). But TSU and McNeese both had openings when the Demons were headed to resume their schedule at Sam Houston State (a gritty win for NSU in a defensive slugfest), so they tussled in Turpin, complete with an NSU pep band playing Jolie Blanc, the McNeese fight song.
Meanwhile, back at the NSU fieldhouse, the video maestros of David Rosen, Mike Huesmann and John Schaekel were being hampered Monday afternoon by flickering lights which resulted from the havoc due to Hurricane Gustov's outer bands arriving. There were several game tape edits that didn't get saved once put together on computers because of the power pulses. Fortunately, as of 6:45 Monday evening, there haven't been any outages.
But from now forward for 24 hours, we should see the peak of the winds if the forecasters are correct.
Coach Stoker told the team in a brief 5 o'clock huddle that anybody who didn't feel comfortable at their apartments tonight was welcome to come hunker down in the fieldhouse. The luxurious sofas and lounge chairs in the locker room and upstairs in the football lobby, donated by the Truax family in memory of young Christopher Truax, will have never been put to better use.
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