Meeting is @ 1730 - 17 December 2012 in the Griffis Board Room at the Palmeiro center. Moving the fences in was done largely to increase emergency vehicle access to the LFL, probably as a move toward complying with PEER study recommendations several years ago. Unofficial word has it that they trailers to the west of the bathrooms in left field area have to be repositioned somewhere. Also, in-and-out passes are supposedly being eliminated, much in response to the access problems that occur because too many additional passes have been sold over time, and the area for parking has been reduced due to the construction activities, mainly the football office and practice support complex.
From what I saw this fall, moving the fences in from the left field foul pole to center field did not significantly impact home run production. Goes back to the old argument - home runs are a function of hitting a mistakenly thrown or located pitch, not the distance (within reason) to the fence. The shorter porch in left field will help us somewhat defensively, however, although right now we may not need that much help because we have pitchers that can locate down in the zone and move their pitches around to keep hitters off balance. That may change if we lose Coach Thompson to a head-coaching postion in the next year or two.
