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Post by purplehaze on Apr 28, 2020 14:58:41 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 28, 2020 16:16:56 GMT -5
What the heck does this mean for our only championship team, football?
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Post by timholycross on Apr 28, 2020 16:42:39 GMT -5
AH doesn't perhaps have that many options to compress the schedule, only shorten it. The schools are too spread out to do too many during-the-week trips.
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 28, 2020 16:53:38 GMT -5
I continued reading on the site after the press release. Both HC M&W teams finished next to last, but the Women's Hockey East geographic footprint is very efficient. HC is within an hour of BC, BU, Northeastern, Merrimack, UConn and Providence and within two hours of UNH. UVM and Maine are five or six hours but it is all highway driving with less traffic than going five or six hours through the NY metro area and lodging and restaurants are less expensive. Plus all teams are in the New England media market and share outlets like NESN (New England Sports Network), NBC Sports Boston, NECN (New England Cable News) etc.
With the upcoming recession and trend towards distance learning that will probably disadvantage member schools, it would be nice if Hockey East re-thinks their requirements for new Men's hockey members to place greater emphasis on geographic proximity to current members as opposed to large arenas, which would help HC's chances.
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Post by bfoley82 on Apr 28, 2020 22:52:24 GMT -5
I continued reading on the site after the press release. Both HC M&W teams finished next to last, but the Women's Hockey East geographic footprint is very efficient. HC is within an hour of BC, BU, Northeastern, Merrimack, UConn and Providence and within two hours of UNH. UVM and Maine are five or six hours but it is all highway driving with less traffic than going five or six hours through the NY metro area and lodging and restaurants are less expensive. Plus all teams are in the New England media market and share outlets like NESN (New England Sports Network), NBC Sports Boston, NECN (New England Cable News) etc. With the upcoming recession and trend towards distance learning that will probably disadvantage member schools, it would be nice if Hockey East re-thinks their requirements for new Men's hockey members to place greater emphasis on geographic proximity to current members as opposed to large arenas, which would help HC's chances. Lowell and Amherst both have men's teams so that would also add to the count on the men's side. |
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 28, 2020 23:00:07 GMT -5
I continued reading on the site after the press release. Both HC M&W teams finished next to last, but the Women's Hockey East geographic footprint is very efficient. HC is within an hour of BC, BU, Northeastern, Merrimack, UConn and Providence and within two hours of UNH. UVM and Maine are five or six hours but it is all highway driving with less traffic than going five or six hours through the NY metro area and lodging and restaurants are less expensive. Plus all teams are in the New England media market and share outlets like NESN (New England Sports Network), NBC Sports Boston, NECN (New England Cable News) etc. With the upcoming recession and trend towards distance learning that will probably disadvantage member schools, it would be nice if Hockey East re-thinks their requirements for new Men's hockey members to place greater emphasis on geographic proximity to current members as opposed to large arenas, which would help HC's chances. Lowell and Amherst both have men's teams so that would also add to the count on the men's side. That's two more hour or so drives from HC. You couldn't pick a more Central location than Worcester for Hockey East. |
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 29, 2020 1:08:47 GMT -5
Until a vaccine is developed and available to the entire population, large arenas will not be needed. Hockey East will need to review the arena requirements for the immediate future. A majority of Americans will be avoiding large crowds due to a concern for their health.
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Post by alum on Apr 29, 2020 8:35:22 GMT -5
Until a vaccine is developed and available to the entire population, large arenas will not be needed. Hockey East will need to review the arena requirements for the immediate future. A majority of Americans will be avoiding large crowds due to a concern for their health. Agreed. Most people will be weary enough of this lockdown by the middle to the end of June to be willing to undertake some risk going forward. I see them being amenable to: 1. their kids going to school and getting back involved with their activities--sports, etc. 2. retail shopping for things other than food 3. eating in restaurants 4. going to their workplaces and seeing their colleagues 5. going to religious services and seeing their friends 6. visiting friends and relatives at their homes as risks they will be willing to undertake. I see a large number of people (but not all) being quite hesitant to go to arenas, and even movie theatres, until this thing is knocked down for six months or more. Maybe the number of people who want to go to games, concerts, and movies will hit a sweet spot where it can be done with light social distancing yet be enough to represent a profit for the exhibitor. |
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 29, 2020 8:41:30 GMT -5
Sounds like a "reasonable" expectation, alum. I hope we will all soon be discussing the most recent football results and the coming basketball and hockey seasons.
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Post by hchoops on Apr 29, 2020 8:42:34 GMT -5
There will probably be different behaviors for different ages
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 29, 2020 10:15:21 GMT -5
HC and the PL could recoup some of their losses from small or no crowds by (ugh) charging to watch games on the net.
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 29, 2020 10:20:03 GMT -5
I had a similar thought about charging for video broadcasts of hoop games.
Don't we already pay to watch HC hockey?
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 29, 2020 10:32:04 GMT -5
It's the PL vs PL games that are always Free now. I had ESPN plus for $4.99/mo for the whole year and finally stopped it when there were no more live games in anything. In the OOC season you see how some conferences charge a good deal more.
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Post by HC92 on Apr 29, 2020 12:13:09 GMT -5
HC and the PL could recoup some of their losses from small or no crowds by (ugh) charging to watch games on the net. Can’t see too many people who aren’t family members of players or regular posters here paying to watch HC basketball on the computer at this point. Maybe 100 people per game? If that. |
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 29, 2020 14:03:58 GMT -5
HC and the PL could recoup some of their losses from small or no crowds by (ugh) charging to watch games on the net. Can’t see too many people who aren’t family members of players or regular posters here paying to watch HC basketball on the computer at this point. Maybe 100 people per game? If that. When the games first went up on the net they used to have a counter in a corner of the screen stating how many people were viewing the game. Sometimes it would be 48 or 52. That's basically the families of the players on both teams. It must be up now that people are familiar but it is still a specialty market. |
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