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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on May 6, 2023 5:17:26 GMT -5
They can use the $ they saved by not renovating McCoy.
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Post by timholycross on May 6, 2023 8:12:56 GMT -5
Those having to use the press box at Fitton would kill to have the present URI one!.
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Post by Bob Saccamano on May 6, 2023 8:51:35 GMT -5
University of Rhode Island - Meade Stadium - Opening Game August 31, 2024. According to AGS, there has been a presentation to the Rhode Island Trustees and to the Rhode Island Legislature to fund a renovation of Meade Stadium with work possibly beginning this year. The optimistic timeline for changes to be completed is 2025 season. If one thought that Fitton is long due for a major renovation and face lift,…..here is Meade Stadium. Press Box is still nicer than Fitton as it is now...Shane being in the video is one example of a reason Fitton needs to be renovated to as he is the head SID at URI and has a physical handicap. |
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Post by rf1 on May 6, 2023 10:01:48 GMT -5
University of Rhode Island - Meade Stadium - Opening Game August 31, 2024. According to AGS, there has been a presentation to the Rhode Island Trustees and to the Rhode Island Legislature to fund a renovation of Meade Stadium with work possibly beginning this year. The optimistic timeline for changes to be completed is 2025 season. If one thought that Fitton is long due for a major renovation and face lift,…..here is Meade Stadium.
At least half of Meade is nice. The much smaller west stands were built just 15 years ago and open at the top onto the concourse level of the adjacent Ryan center Arena. This provides the fans on that side much better concessions and bathrooms. The top box suite level of the Ryan Center looks down onto the field. The majority of the seating on this side are chairbacks. The east side which is highlighted in the video is bad. This stand is somewhat similar to parts of Fitton. Some improvements such as artificial turf and night lights were added in recent years.
Meade West Stands
Meade East Stands
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Post by rf1 on May 6, 2023 10:05:20 GMT -5
This was one of the recent Meade west stands proposal plans at URI:
Nothing on Meade is yet a given as the governor has just made a budget proposal for capital expenditures which the legislature must also approve. The video above on the poor conditions of some athletic facilities at URI is part of a PR campaign to get support.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on May 6, 2023 10:38:17 GMT -5
I havent been to Meade since about 2000 or 2001. Visiting side was basically decaying wood bleachers.
Plenty of space in parking lot for a good tailgate though, IIRC.
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Post by longsuffering on May 6, 2023 14:29:02 GMT -5
Begin construction in summer 2024 and move the August 31 URI/HC game to Fitton.
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Post by rf1 on Jun 19, 2023 14:01:03 GMT -5
URI Update It would appear that a major upgrade of Meade Stadium will in fact finally happen. The new RI state budget that was just approved and signed by the governor commits significant funds to athletic infrastructure improvements at URI. The school will be getting $65.8 million to renovate the stands at Meade Stadium, which hosts the university’s football and lacrosse programs on campus, the Slade track and field that is more than 30 years old and unusable for competition and other sports complexes on campus needing repairs. URI’s sports fields getting financial boost, but more work needs to be doneBy James Bessette -06/19/2023 pbn.com/uris-sports-fields-getting-financial-boost-but-more-work-needs-to-be-done/A entirely new east grandstand will probably not be ready for the Crusaders 2024 visit but some small improvements should be in place by then. Additional stairwells are however presently being added to the east grandstands, which with current stricter fire codes, will allow these stands to return to the former seating capacity before they are later entirely replaced. A new scoreboard is rumored for this upcoming season as well. |
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 19, 2023 14:14:26 GMT -5
Can't the Crusaders just play URI at McCoy Stadium? Or will it be torn down by then? Asking for a friend.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 19, 2023 16:28:04 GMT -5
Don't fool around with a stadium under construction. Play the game at Fitton.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 19, 2023 16:38:01 GMT -5
Meade has cozy confines like Fitton, no track, no additional lines indicating multipurpose use. A dilemma for both fine institutions is the field is only used five times a year or so. This could have been a factor in BU, Northeastern, UVM, Fairfield and others dropping football.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 20, 2023 8:23:38 GMT -5
Meade has cozy confines like Fitton, no track, no additional lines indicating multipurpose use. A dilemma for both fine institutions is the field is only used five times a year or so. This could have been a factor in BU, Northeastern, UVM, Fairfield and others dropping football. BU and NU used, and still use, their fields to death. Both replaced their phony turf fields right after football got dropped. NU's was small to begin with, several high schools in Mass., have larger venues. A lot easier to maintain when you don't have much to fix. |
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 20, 2023 9:04:58 GMT -5
University of Rhode Island - Meade Stadium - Opening Game August 31, 2024. According to AGS, there has been a presentation to the Rhode Island Trustees and to the Rhode Island Legislature to fund a renovation of Meade Stadium with work possibly beginning this year. The optimistic timeline for changes to be completed is 2025 season. If one thought that Fitton is long due for a major renovation and face lift,…..here is Meade Stadium.
At least half of Meade is nice. The much smaller west stands were built just 15 years ago and open at the top onto the concourse level of the adjacent Ryan center Arena. This provides the fans on that side much better concessions and bathrooms. The top box suite level of the Ryan Center looks down onto the field. The majority of the seating on this side are chairbacks. The east side which is highlighted in the video is bad. This stand is somewhat similar to parts of Fitton. Some improvements such as artificial turf and night lights were added in recent years.
Meade West Stands
Meade East Stands
It looks like there is room for an accessible (there must be an elevator in the Ryan Center, or are the buildings not directly connected?) modern press box and coach's booths above the stands on the west side. Perhaps URI has reserved that area for higher revenue luxury boxes? The shaded glass in the photo makes it hard to tell what is behind there. |
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 20, 2023 9:11:02 GMT -5
Here's an unsettling thought: URI gets funding to tear down the east stands and build modern accessible stands like the west side except larger. URI insists on playing it's 2024 home slate with only the west stands available. Crusader nation either gets shut out or crammed in cheek to jowl with all the "Ramaniacs"🙂
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Post by Bob Saccamano on Jun 20, 2023 9:44:51 GMT -5
Meade has cozy confines like Fitton, no track, no additional lines indicating multipurpose use. A dilemma for both fine institutions is the field is only used five times a year or so. This could have been a factor in BU, Northeastern, UVM, Fairfield and others dropping football. BU and NU used, and still use, their fields to death. Both replaced their phony turf fields right after football got dropped. NU's was small to begin with, several high schools in Mass., have larger venues. A lot easier to maintain when you don't have much to fix. What you mean phony turf field? They have always been turf at Nickerson and Parsons in the last 40 years or so |
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Post by rf1 on Jun 20, 2023 12:26:13 GMT -5
Meade West Stands Stands - Ryan Center Ground Floor Top of stands between brick columns - Concourse level of the Ryan Center Indoor Viewing for Football games - Luxury Box level of the Ryan Center (green metal cladding with windows at top)
It looks like there is room for an accessible (there must be an elevator in the Ryan Center, or are the buildings not directly connected?) modern press box and coach's booths above the stands on the west side. Perhaps URI has reserved that area for higher revenue luxury boxes? The shaded glass in the photo makes it hard to tell what is behind there.
The top of the Meade west stands is directly connected to the concourse level (above ground floor entrance level) of the Ryan Center with doors for access. This level has restrooms and concessions that are open during football games. The concourse level is accessible by two elevators on this side of the arena. Furthermore, there are open areas at the top of these stands outside the concourse level for persons with mobility issues. As an FYI, the Ryan Center ground floor also has the dedicated football (accessed from field by center tunnel in stands) home and opponent locker rooms (apart from men's and women's basketball home and opponent). The top level of the Ryan Center has luxury boxes that face inward toward the arena seating bowl. These boxes are however also used for football games as the wide corridor to them has a wall of full length windows on its east side that looks down onto the field.
Renovations to Meade would probably not involve much associated with the west stands as that side is fine. It is the east stands where the money would be spent. The present east stands would likely be torn down and a new structure built in its place.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 20, 2023 16:08:40 GMT -5
It looks like there is room for an accessible (there must be an elevator in the Ryan Center, or are the buildings not directly connected?) modern press box and coach's booths above the stands on the west side. Perhaps URI has reserved that area for higher revenue luxury boxes? The shaded glass in the photo makes it hard to tell what is behind there.
The top of the Meade west stands is directly connected to the concourse level (above ground floor entrance level) of the Ryan Center with doors for access. This level has restrooms and concessions that are open during football games. The concourse level is accessible by two elevators on this side of the arena. Furthermore, there are open areas at the top of these stands outside the concourse level for persons with mobility issues. As an FYI, the Ryan Center ground floor also has the dedicated football (accessed from field by center tunnel in stands) home and opponent locker rooms (apart from men's and women's basketball home and opponent). The top level of the Ryan Center has luxury boxes that face inward toward the arena seating bowl. These boxes are however also used for football games as the wide corridor to them has a wall of full length windows on its east side that looks down onto the field.
Renovations to Meade would probably not involve much associated with the west stands as that side is fine. It is the east stands where the money would be spent. The present east stands would likely be torn down and a new structure built in its place.
Why do they make the coaches and media cram into the old non-accessible press box above the East Stands? I'd guess this factor was emphasized in the video to increase chances of funding, but I'm not that cynical. There must be a good reason they torture that SID with the physical disability by making him climb the stadium steps instead of being able to use the elevator on the other side. |
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Post by timholycross on Jun 21, 2023 7:50:01 GMT -5
BU and NU used, and still use, their fields to death. Both replaced their phony turf fields right after football got dropped. NU's was small to begin with, several high schools in Mass., have larger venues. A lot easier to maintain when you don't have much to fix. What you mean phony turf field? They have always been turf at Nickerson and Parsons in the last 40 years or so Substitute "artificial" for "phony"? Geez, get a life. |
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Post by timholycross on Jun 21, 2023 7:54:17 GMT -5
Meade West/Ryan is similar to Alumni Home Side/Conte. Good design, imho.
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 21, 2023 8:01:17 GMT -5
Just to get this thread back to the more generic HC football schedule and away from my home state university building projects, I've made my BC and Army game purchases directly from those institutions after patiently (well, maybe not too patiently) for HC to sell those game tickets.
Told last week from HC that they still did not have access to those game tickets and, most importantly, they do not re-sell those game tickets at a discount and from a dollars and sense point of view, I might as well order from BC and Army.
While it might have already been posted previously, I noticed at Michie Stadium that half the stadium is unavailable due to construction on the visitor side. From memory in past games, the cadet corps sat perhaps on the 40 yard line but due to construction, they have them located at one end zone. There are tickets available on the opposite end zone and sideline sections running from the goal lines to about the 35-40 yard line. None at midfield. I chose to pay $10 more per ticket to get in the section that runs from about the 20-40 yard line and expect I'll be at about the 20. Also, interesting, to me at least, Army charges different prices for different games, presumably based on what they expect the demand to be. Their tickets for the BC game are the most but we are like second tier but considerably more than their game against Coastal Carolina and Delaware State and the same as their UMass game and Troy. Of course, we are playing them on a date that might entice more people to the game than just because it's Holy Cross.
My seats for the BC game are on the 40ish yard line and decided to pay for parking on the Newton off-campus site with promises of a free shuttle to/from the stadium about every 15 minutes.
I'll get my Yale game tickets the day of the game because somehow I don't think the game will be a sellout. Pretty sure they can't even sell out "The Game" vs Harvard anymore.
Have to give some thought to when/how to get Fordham tickets.
No, I don't do PA away games unless the championship is on the line. Those will be ESPN+ games for me probably.
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Post by lou on Jun 21, 2023 8:24:20 GMT -5
Went to the Colgate @ Army game last year. Cadets were in the East stands, the side that now is being worked on. Colgate fans were in the south end zone, not the best seats. I purchased tickets to the game a week before, and there was plenty of space to choose from in the West stands, which are probably the best seats. Very organized with school busses moving people from parking lots, up and down the hills to/from the game. Attendance was listed at 29000 that day.
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 21, 2023 8:28:58 GMT -5
Yes about parking. Having been to almost every HC-Army game except on my wedding day, unlike for the BC game, when I called for my Army tickets, the lady asked if I wanted to get reserved parking and stopped herself and said, "oh you won't want that because you'd have to make a donation to the cadet corps and you'll just want to pay to park when you get here" (which is what I've always done the previous 4-5 times).
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Post by princetoncrusader on Jun 21, 2023 8:52:00 GMT -5
Isn't there a benefit to buying through the HC ticket office in that it might improve the bargaining position for future games against Army or any FBS opponent? In other words, Kit or whoever is in that chair can point to how many tickets were sold through HC's ticket office and hence haggle for a better guarantee.
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 21, 2023 9:14:47 GMT -5
IMHO, probably not. One of my esteemed Classmates apparently bought 50 end zone seats and got a discount, not because of Holy Cross but because he bought so many tickets and got a group rate.
You're point is probably supply & demand. Whether you get them through HC or Army, the total fannies in the seats is likely what Army uses for its pricing, not where the seats are sold from. They know darn well that a 4-time playoff team, in the Patriot League like Army (but not football) and past experience that HC alums "travel well" means they'll get more attendees than Coastal Carolina or Delaware State. JMO.
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Post by Bob Saccamano on Jun 21, 2023 22:34:02 GMT -5
What you mean phony turf field? They have always been turf at Nickerson and Parsons in the last 40 years or so Substitute "artificial" for "phony"? Geez, get a life. You are the one that called it phony. Holy Cross is the massive outlier as I have documented multiple times in having a grass football field in New England. |
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