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Post by purplehaze on Jun 6, 2016 12:07:45 GMT -5
kickoff times will be appearing soon for this season. i see that the opener at morgan state is at 7pm (per their site). would not be surprised if the games at unh and albany in the following
weekends are also in the evening as those stadia have lights.
i agree with others here that our start times in sep and oct (with daylight savings time) should be in the 2-3 pm slot
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Post by sarasota on Jun 6, 2016 14:22:19 GMT -5
So UHN, Albany and Morgan St have lights, but HC can't have them. Oh Nooooo
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Post by hc70 on Jun 6, 2016 15:51:16 GMT -5
Two state schools 'toga.
fwiw first football mag out. HC #3 behind Fordham and Colgate
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 6, 2016 17:36:44 GMT -5
Considering HC is now making a significant upgrade to the athletics facilities including an indoor practice facility, that most, if not all of our competitors do not have. I prefer the decision that was made to forgo lights at Fitton in exchange to having an outstanding indoor facility that can be used by all field sports during bad weather. Lights can easily be rented, a full time indoor 100 yard facility dedicated solely to HC Athletics, is rightly a higher priority.
HC is fortunate to have the land to have multiple venues, most dedicated to either a single or two sports. The majority of schools at the FCS level, who have lights, in their football stadiums, is because they lack the additional venues to host events. Villanova is a prime example.
Lights will come after the major overhaul of Fitton occurs.
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Post by hc87 on Jun 6, 2016 22:00:26 GMT -5
If TPTB truly care about football attendance, they'll install lights (or rent them more often)....as I've said in other posts, the days of the well attended early kick-off games at Fitton (ouside of HC and FW) ended in the Reagan era....
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Post by sarasota on Jun 6, 2016 23:28:16 GMT -5
There are some videos that are so magnetic that you can watch them over and over:
"live in a trailer down by the river!"
"We're talkin' practice. Not a game. Practice."
"I'll kill you." [target Calipari]
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Post by purplehaze on Jul 19, 2016 15:56:33 GMT -5
albany just announced a 7pm start for the HC game on sep 17th, so that's 3 road night games to start the season.
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Post by purplehaze on Jul 28, 2016 10:03:38 GMT -5
morgan state start time now changed to 2 pm per their site. would imagine because of our travel schedule.
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Post by HC92 on Jul 28, 2016 10:58:07 GMT -5
morgan state start time now changed to 2 pm per their site. would imagine because of our travel schedule. Saves us a night in a hotel or a very unpleasant middle of the night bus ride. Anyone know if football would bus or fly for that game? |
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Post by timholycross on Jul 28, 2016 13:22:08 GMT -5
...but the game is in Baltimore in early September and it could be hotternhell there. Especially on Field Turf.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 28, 2016 13:55:37 GMT -5
I doubt the change in time was to accommodate HC travel plans. HC is not going to travel the morning of a game in Baltimore. In the past, HC has flown to Georgetown, --and there are more flight options to DCA/IAD then there are to BWI.
As to why the time was moved, perhaps to increase attendance. After Friday night partying at the start of a semester, not too many would be racing to a stadium for an early game.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Jul 28, 2016 18:24:14 GMT -5
I seem to recall Baltimore type weather at the Morgan State game here. I remember walking by the visitors locker room and feeling bad for those guys, with all the doors open to let in the precious little bits of air.
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Post by CHC8485 on Jul 28, 2016 19:39:52 GMT -5
In the past, HC has flown to Georgetown, --and there are more flight options to DCA/IAD then there are to BWI. There may be more per day to DCA/IAD but Southwest has 9 flights a day from Providence to BWI plus another 9 per day from Boston. If you throw in Hartford and Manchester, you get another 12 -15 flights a day. So 30ish flights a day within 75 minutes or so of campus seems like a pretty good set of options to me. |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Jul 28, 2016 19:52:38 GMT -5
When I was in school, PVD - BWI was pretty much the standard means of transportation for the basketball teams to travel to either American or Navy (now Loyola too I guess). The team has both flown and bussed to Georgetown but I believe they've flown out every trip since at least '06 -- in '08 it was Southwest out of Providence. Haven't kept tabs on team travel itinerary since I left so I'm sure others are more in the know. IIRC, HC athletics didn't have the budget to fly the football team down to Georgetown but usually ended up doing so through Gridiron Club donations.
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