It’s Nov. 1, 2017 and the Louisiana-Lafayette softball team has arrived at Lamson Park on a rainy Wednesday night feeling like anything but the home team.
The black, iron-clad gates bordering the Ragin’ Cajuns’ stadium had been wrapped with chains and adorned with signs that read: “Closed Facility.”
Good luck getting in.
“We were just trying to get our personal belongings,” pitcher Alyssa Denham said at the time. “Keys, backpacks. We have class tomorrow.”
A team that had just won the Sun Belt Conference a few months earlier was in complete disarray.
Long-time ULL coach Michael Lotief had been fired that day amid allegations of verbal and physical assault.