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Post by purplehaze on Mar 15, 2021 9:43:28 GMT -5
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Post by newfieguy74 on Mar 15, 2021 11:28:36 GMT -5
I wonder how they're paying for it.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 15, 2021 12:00:20 GMT -5
The cost is projected to be 70 million dollars. I’ll have to research’s the source of the funding. Lots of money for an on campus hockey arena. Sacred Heart has been expanding with a enrollment of over 9,000. The site of the arena, is their new “West” campus, which previously was the headquarters campus of GE, before they moved to Boston. Wonder how that move has worked out for GE? I think I already know.🤔😂
Interesting to note, the new Sacred Heart arena, will open on January 14, 2023 with the men’s game against BC. The following day, on January 15, 2023, the women’s team opens against Harvard.
Down the street and around the corner, Fairfield University, will begin construction this month on their new convocation center to replace Alumni Hall.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 15, 2021 12:41:15 GMT -5
I wonder how they're paying for it. They read your posts and bought bitcoin before the latest surge in price.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 15, 2021 12:49:48 GMT -5
The cost is projected to be 70 million dollars. I’ll have to research’s the source of the funding. Lots of money for an on campus hockey arena. Sacred Heart has been expanding with a enrollment of over 9,000. The site of the arena, is their new “West” campus, which previously was the headquarters campus of GE, before they moved to Boston. Wonder how that move has worked out for GE? I think I already know.🤔😂 Interesting to note, the new Sacred Heart arena, will open on January 14, 2023 with the men’s game against BC. The following day, on January 15, 2023, the women’s team opens against Harvard. Down the street and around the corner, Fairfield University, will begin construction this month on their new convocation center to replace Alumni Hall. Everybody is keeping up with the Joneses in this arms race. Hopefully people will want to cleave together in these indoor spaces after a year of social distancing, but the Jury is out on that. College attendance is currently down. Interesting to see how it rebounds.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 15, 2021 15:48:26 GMT -5
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 15, 2021 17:09:10 GMT -5
I agree. The new arena for Sacred Heart should be dual purpose, especially since they are spending 70 million.
I was talking to Coach Anthony Latina in 2019, after the HC game at the Hart. He liked the changes that HC made to the Luth complex. The Pitt Center needs an upgrade with new seats that are closer to the court. Coach Latina is a really nice person. I hope he has tremendous success, except on one game that may be on his schedule. Unfortunately Sacred Heart has lost players looking for a greener pasture in a bigger pond over the last several years.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 15, 2021 18:25:20 GMT -5
This arena will put Atlantic Hockey on the map.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 15, 2021 18:41:17 GMT -5
It takes the TD Garden two hours to put the parquet basketball floor down over the ice sheet. Adapting the arena for BB is still possible.
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Post by HC92 on Mar 15, 2021 19:29:30 GMT -5
SHU got a C+ for a financial grade in that Forbes report posted elsewhere. Roughly halfway between the best and the worst colleges. Can’t imagine spending $70M on an arena to play in Atlantic Hockey is going to help.
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Post by purplehaze on Sept 9, 2021 11:22:01 GMT -5
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Post by crusader12 on Sept 9, 2021 12:44:52 GMT -5
And short lived in Atlantic Hockey once they are invited to Hockey East.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 9, 2021 13:31:42 GMT -5
And short lived in Atlantic Hockey once they are invited to Hockey East. Still a much longer bus ride for many HE teams than Worcester. Let's see what Coach Riga can do with wins and losses to make HC a more attractive team to HE. We still have the DCU to use without the $7O million expense. Polar Park and the DCU represent HC's non tax dollars at work for the college.🙂
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Post by bfoley82 on Sept 9, 2021 14:19:03 GMT -5
And short lived in Atlantic Hockey once they are invited to Hockey East. Still a much longer bus ride for many HE teams than Worcester. Let's see what Coach Riga can do with wins and losses to make HC a more attractive team to HE. We still have the DCU to use without the $7O million expense. Polar Park and the DCU represent HC's non tax dollars at work for the college.🙂 But you can have road trips with UConn and Sacred Heart as opponents for the schools that don't want to do day trips like UNH, Maine, and Vermont.
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Post by trimster on Sept 9, 2021 18:06:03 GMT -5
And short lived in Atlantic Hockey once they are invited to Hockey East. Still a much longer bus ride for many HE teams than Worcester. Let's see what Coach Riga can do with wins and losses to make HC a more attractive team to HE. We still have the DCU to use without the $7O million expense. Polar Park and the DCU represent HC's non tax dollars at work for the college.🙂 What given HC's athletic history over the last 40 plus years, makes you think Holy Cross Men's Hockey, will become a member of Hockey East. As far as using the DCU Center, the place might as well have been on the moon for the last 39 years as ten minutes from HC.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 9, 2021 18:37:25 GMT -5
Still a much longer bus ride for many HE teams than Worcester. Let's see what Coach Riga can do with wins and losses to make HC a more attractive team to HE. We still have the DCU to use without the $7O million expense. Polar Park and the DCU represent HC's non tax dollars at work for the college.🙂 What given HC's athletic history over the last 40 plus years, makes you think Holy Cross Men's Hockey, will become a member of Hockey East. As far as using the DCU Center, the place might as well have been on the moon for the last 39 years as ten minutes from HC. In reality, nothing but the chatter on this board. I do like the $70 million savings over the Sacred Heart approach and the $100+million not spent on Polar Park to gain access to a nearby stadium with lights for night football games when needed. Playing when needed or desired at both of these venues also opens up HC to local sports fans who have formed patterns of paying money to attend sporting events at both places. HC is giving them two attractive offerings in October, the Ice Breaker and the first college football game at Polar.
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Post by timholycross on Sept 13, 2021 8:02:04 GMT -5
It takes the TD Garden two hours to put the parquet basketball floor down over the ice sheet. Adapting the arena for BB is still possible. It's got to have some incorporation in the design of the place before they make the investment. BU had a basketball floor at a similar sized Walter Brown Arena. It was a terrible basketball venue. There were less good seat than The Roof offered. Probably why after Agganis opened they didn't make it all basketball.
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Post by bfoley82 on Sept 13, 2021 17:40:49 GMT -5
It takes the TD Garden two hours to put the parquet basketball floor down over the ice sheet. Adapting the arena for BB is still possible. It's got to have some incorporation in the design of the place before they make the investment. BU had a basketball floor at a similar sized Walter Brown Arena. It was a terrible basketball venue. There were less good seat than The Roof offered. Probably why after Agganis opened they didn't make it all basketball. WBA is the women's hockey home for BU. One of the few schools in the country that has a women's only rink. HAA on the other hand can host basketball and usually hosts the conference championship when the Terriers are the host.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 13, 2021 18:17:46 GMT -5
THE BU fan loves it when he gets to go into the big arena. Before BU joined the PL, HC played them regularly during the Willard era including one great double (?) OT game on a weeknight. I was thinking of going in and went online to check out tickets, parking, directions. That night they had several promotions for students and staff including free refreshments and other attractions. I didn't end up going because it was mixed precipitation hovering around 32 degrees in the early evening, a recipe for disaster. The next day I looked at the box score and was shocked at the small turnout with all the promotions. Just not a BB tradition at BU I guess.
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Post by bfoley82 on Sept 13, 2021 19:06:27 GMT -5
THE BU fan loves it when he gets to go into the big arena. Before BU joined the PL, HC played them regularly during the Willard era including one great double (?) OT game on a weeknight. I was thinking of going in and went online to check out tickets, parking, directions. That night they had several promotions for students and staff including free refreshments and other attractions. I didn't end up going because it was mixed precipitation hovering around 32 degrees in the early evening, a recipe for disaster. The next day I looked at the box score and was shocked at the small turnout with all the promotions. Just not a BB tradition at BU I guess. They had 3845 for the America East final in 2011 and 2014 Patriot League final against American got 2633. (One of the worst basketball games in history). Seems like the move to the Patriot League saw attendance drop off.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 13, 2021 21:08:12 GMT -5
Whoever the AE opponent was, they were probably closer to Boston than American U. I doubt there were many AU students on a nine hour bus ride singing "I'm shipping up to Boston" like they were Jonathan Papelbon entering a game in the ninth inning.
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Post by bfoley82 on Sept 13, 2021 21:10:33 GMT -5
Whoever the AE opponent was, they were probably closer to Boston than American U. I doubt there were many AU students on a nine hour bus ride singing "I'm shipping up to Boston" like they were Jonathan Papelbon entering a game in the ninth inning. The America East school was Stony Brook which is 7 hours and 27 minutes without taking the ferry.
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Post by longsuffering on Sept 13, 2021 21:19:02 GMT -5
It's the last two hours of the trip that suck the life out of you. Plus unfortunately, as fine an institution as AU surely is, (Bob Fouracre always said it was) I don't think of it as a jock school that travels. How long of a trip on the ferry? U of Bridgeport will be a short trip for SBU when they go D-1.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Sept 14, 2021 2:42:06 GMT -5
THE BU fan loves it when he gets to go into the big arena. Before BU joined the PL, HC played them regularly during the Willard era including one great double (?) OT game on a weeknight. I was thinking of going in and went online to check out tickets, parking, directions. That night they had several promotions for students and staff including free refreshments and other attractions. I didn't end up going because it was mixed precipitation hovering around 32 degrees in the early evening, a recipe for disaster. The next day I looked at the box score and was shocked at the small turnout with all the promotions. Just not a BB tradition at BU I guess. They had 3845 for the America East final in 2011 and 2014 Patriot League final against American got 2633. (One of the worst basketball games in history). Seems like the move to the Patriot League saw attendance drop off. If HC had been able to counter a switch to a simple zone vs. AU, there would have been at least 3846 at that PL title game.
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Post by timholycross on Sept 14, 2021 7:37:11 GMT -5
SBU is basically a ride from Bridgeport plus the ferry ride (1:15). 4 very nearby possible non-league opponents (w/UNHaven a possible fifth).
I'd think with that proximity to Fairfield, Q and NYC (Manh, St P); they'd look to ditch AE at some point and go in the MAAC; unless they see the longer rides to CAA schools for all sports a viable option.
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