Many buildings around the University’s campus suffered some kind of damage from Hurricane Gustav’s charging rain and wind storms.The athletic facilities also fell victim to the storm’s wrath.Almost every athletic facility on campus suffered some sort of damage during Hurricane Gustav, associate athletic director Eddie Nunez said.”Some are more extensive than others,” Nunez said. “We are literally going through every facility from top to bottom.”Tiger Stadium suffered substantial damage in certain areas, including seats, windows and the scoreboard but should still host LSU’s game against North Texas on Saturday barring the possibility of Hurricane Ike coming to Louisiana, said senior associate athletic director Herb Vincent.Both the Carl Maddox Field House and LSU Natatorium withstood roof damage during the storm, and the LSU Soccer Complex press box was heavily damaged.Nunez said the Athletic Department would have a full assessment of facility damage some time this week at best.”It takes a considerable amount of time getting the manpower here to do that, just trying to get everybody in for work,” Nunez said. “We’re doing it with a limited staff.”Neither the new Alex Box Stadium nor the new Tiger Park was heavily damaged during the storm. Both stadiums are still under construction.”They lost a little work time this week, but nothing major,” Nunez said. “We’ll have to sit down with the contractor, hopefully within the next week or so, and be able to address their concerns and their situation. But right now they feel good about both of those.”Vincent said the opening dates for the new ballparks have not been changed as of Sunday.”There are some repairs that have to be done over at softball because there was some damage to the roof in the team [clubhouse] area,” Vincent said. “But that doesn’t have anything to do with the playing area, so it won’t change the opening date for the softball stadium.”Vincent said old Alex Box Stadium also suffered minimal damage.”Even though they’re not playing there now, we have to practice there this fall,” Vincent said. “There are repairs that have to be done there.”Nunez said two other new projects, the gift center and basketball practice facility, did not suffer any damage during the storm.”Gift center did well. No issues there at all with their construction,” Nunez said. “With basketball, it’s just demolition right now, so nothing was affected there.”The Athletic Department won’t have cost estimates related to damage for a long time, Nunez said.”We’ve got to have contractors come in here and assess all those [damages], but that’s a week if that,” Nunez said.Vincent said the Athletic Department has not evaluated damage costs because they are focused on preparing Tiger Stadium and the LSU Soccer Complex, two of three facilities actively used on campus.The third facility is the PMAC, which is being used as a hospital and shelter.The soccer team’s games against Kent State and Dartmouth at the LSU Soccer Complex were canceled. The next game scheduled at the Complex is Sunday against Houston.The volleyball team’s next scheduled game at the PMAC is Sept. 26 against Tennessee.Jamie Roques, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals spokeswoman and nurse practitioner, told the Daily Reveille on Wednesday patients would not be moved out of the PMAC until all roads are cleared and power is completely restored in Louisiana.Vincent was not available to comment on the PMAC’s availability to the Athletic Department.—Contact Robert Stewart at [email protected]