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Post by purplehaze on Jul 15, 2019 11:15:11 GMT -5
Fairfield is in the final fundraising stage for this new basketball facility on campus. It will be on the same general footprint of Alumni Hall (used now for about half of their home games, along with the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport). Playing in the WBA has been a disaster for their program in the last decade and that will soon come to an end. Too bad the new arena will not be ready to our return game next season at Fairfield www.centerbrook.com/project/convocation_center
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 15, 2019 12:08:09 GMT -5
Fairfield is in the final fundraising stage for this new basketball facility on campus. It will be on the same general footprint of Alumni Hall (used now for about half of their home games, along with the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport). Playing in the WBA has been a disaster for their program in the last decade and that will soon come to an end. Too bad the new arena will not be ready to our return game next season at Fairfield www.centerbrook.com/project/convocation_centerFrank Lloyd WOW! Stunning.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 15, 2019 12:33:04 GMT -5
Hart Center capacity, for the most part; with what looks like perhaps all chairs, much nicer design with the higher roof (which is the one thing about the Hart Center that I think has made any significant changes to the place impossible).
Not well publicized on their athletic web pages...you'd think they'd hype the place up as much as they could to get the dollars rolling in.
If we lose Caleb Green to them, doubt it was much of a factor. Polar Park's not ready for two years almost and they've broken ground now.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 15, 2019 12:57:59 GMT -5
I think they have been walking a fine line. Didn't want to hype it when there was a real chance it might never get done. As I understand it, the quiet phase of fundraising was somewhat disappointing. They are not going to start demolition/construction until most of the money is committed. Supposedly they are talking to a potential lead donor but nothing definite. Given that it usually takes about two years to build this sort of arena, at best they are now looking at the 2022-23 season as their first in the new building. And that might be optimistic. The bad news is that they will be stuck playing two years only at Webster Bank Arena during construction.
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Post by hchoops on Jul 16, 2019 14:30:16 GMT -5
So Green is transferring to play 1 or 2 years at Webster Bank Arena in downtown Bridgeport in front of 1000s— of roaches. And what will be their practice court while this new place is possibly being built ?
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jul 16, 2019 15:02:26 GMT -5
And what will be their practice court while this new place is possibly being built ? Fairfield Ludlowe.
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Post by hchoops on Jul 16, 2019 15:05:29 GMT -5
And what will be their practice court while this new place is possibly being built ? Fairfield Ludlowe. Please explain what that is.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jul 16, 2019 15:06:48 GMT -5
Please explain what that is. A public high school in Fairfield.
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Post by hchoops on Jul 16, 2019 15:09:53 GMT -5
Sounds sad
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 16, 2019 15:10:02 GMT -5
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Post by unhfan on Jul 18, 2019 20:46:30 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 18, 2019 21:02:47 GMT -5
“The House That Caleb Built”
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Post by hchoops on Jul 18, 2019 21:05:13 GMT -5
From what Bison 137 wrote above, no ground has bee broken yet.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jul 18, 2019 21:33:51 GMT -5
From what Bison 137 wrote above, no ground has bee broken yet. Wake me up when trucks are rolling up the Post Road.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 18, 2019 21:51:30 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 19, 2019 0:46:52 GMT -5
Interesting that UVM is spending $95 million and choosing a 3200 seat arena and HC spent around the same and did not enlarge the seating at the Hart but actually removed a few seats to make it more handicap accessible. Both schools must have studied attendance trends, confirmed that online streaming of games is here to stay and went ahead with arenas seating in the 3000s. HC has the DCU available if higher capacity is needed, but I don't think Burlington has a similar facility I can think of.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 19, 2019 5:41:45 GMT -5
Harvard decided not to build a new hoops arena that, IIRC, would have seated around 3,000. Instead. they renovated Lavietes, with a seating capacity less than many high schools. The new arena would have been near Barry's Corner in Allston, about a mile from Harvard Square. Students at HC can't be bothered to walk 500 feet up to the Hart; walk a mile to a basketball game? Forget it!
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Post by hchoops on Jul 19, 2019 7:32:40 GMT -5
How far do the many Harvard students avoid walking to Lavietes ?
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Post by trimster on Jul 19, 2019 8:08:57 GMT -5
Interesting that UVM is spending $95 million and choosing a 3200 seat arena and HC spent around the same and did not enlarge the seating at the Hart but actually removed a few seats to make it more handicap accessible. Both schools must have studied attendance trends, confirmed that online streaming of games is here to stay and went ahead with arenas seating in the 3000s. HC has the DCU available if higher capacity is needed, but I don't think Burlington has a similar facility I can think of. The DCU Center might as well be in Topeka for the number of times HC uses it.
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Post by Tom on Jul 19, 2019 12:05:07 GMT -5
How far do the many Harvard students avoid walking to Lavietes ? Lavietes is across the river from Harvard Yard. Probably about a 1/2 mile
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 19, 2019 12:33:49 GMT -5
Lavietes is next to Harvard Stadium, for those that have been to a Holy Cross / Harvard football game.
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 19, 2019 17:10:03 GMT -5
Lavietes is next to Harvard Stadium, for those that have been to a Holy Cross / Harvard football game. The students probably all pile into an Uber like Big Jake tried to.
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 19, 2019 17:18:48 GMT -5
Interesting that UVM is spending $95 million and choosing a 3200 seat arena and HC spent around the same and did not enlarge the seating at the Hart but actually removed a few seats to make it more handicap accessible. Both schools must have studied attendance trends, confirmed that online streaming of games is here to stay and went ahead with arenas seating in the 3000s. HC has the DCU available if higher capacity is needed, but I don't think Burlington has a similar facility I can think of. The DCU Center might as well be in Topeka for the number of times HC uses it. The fact that HC never "needs" to use the DCU because of under capacity at the Hart was probably part of the research FU and UVM did in determining the seating capacity of their new arenas. We are a New England mid-major peer to both schools in many respects. I think we may have exceeded the Hart's capacity for one of the BC games at the DCU but not by much if we did and the added costs would not have made that a financial winner. Even the game against the UConn Women did not draw a large crowd at the DCU. I do remember the UConn faithful remained standing until the first UConn basket. As luck would have it we played them tight at the beginning of the game and I think a few older backs may have become tired before they could sit down.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 19, 2019 20:17:04 GMT -5
Highly doubt schools as far away from HC as UVM and Fairfield researched HC attendance trends when planning new arenas. And while Fairfield can be considered a "peer", HC hoops is looking up, way up, to UVM hoops, and has for a long time.
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Post by purplehaze on Feb 3, 2020 11:21:33 GMT -5
the school released this video of how the new arena will look - there's no audio for those of us in the Fairfield county area, this will be a nice place to catch a game - I hope our series with them continues for a few years.
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