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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby Eaglekeeper on Wed Nov 16, 2016 3:08 pm

As long as they insist on 100% of funding coming from donations they will continue to fall further and further behind in athletic facilities, especially given that construction costs are at least double that of our ACC competition. They should be borrowing money at that these historically low interest rates and hanging onto the cash donations to build an endowment for athletics. If they want to cut the annual operating losses, sell some fucking tickets and stop sitting on overpriced garage parking spaces! WTF is a history professor doing getting involved with running essentially a sports franchise???
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby Bumpers on Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:12 pm

Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}: WTF is a history professor doing getting involved with running essentially a sports franchise???




Well, obviously, because those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, of course.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby twballgame9 on Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:13 pm

What happened to bumpers not caring? I miss that.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby TobaccoRoadEagle on Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:27 pm

twballgame9 {l Wrote}:What happened to bumpers not caring? I miss that.

that was the original bumpers. this poster is a different guy that knew bumpers at bc and is using his login credentials
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby Bumpers on Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:48 pm

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:
twballgame9 {l Wrote}:What happened to bumpers not caring? I miss that.

that was the original bumpers. this poster is a different guy that knew bumpers at bc and is using his login credentials


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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby gallopingghost on Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:40 pm

Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:As long as they insist on 100% of funding coming from donations they will continue to fall further and further behind in athletic facilities, especially given that construction costs are at least double that of our ACC competition. They should be borrowing money at that these historically low interest rates and hanging onto the cash donations to build an endowment for athletics. If they want to cut the annual operating losses, sell some fucking tickets and stop sitting on overpriced garage parking spaces! WTF is a history professor doing getting involved with running essentially a sports franchise???


Nova is building a top notch facility 100% funded by a single donor. UNH just built a brand new stadium that was 20% funded by donations and 80% funded by borrowing.

If Leahey thinks that he can fund it by donations alone he is being ridickulous. Time to get real.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby DuchesneEast on Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:17 pm

Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:As long as they insist on 100% of funding coming from donations they will continue to fall further and further behind in athletic facilities, especially given that construction costs are at least double that of our ACC competition. They should be borrowing money at that these historically low interest rates and hanging onto the cash donations to build an endowment for athletics. If they want to cut the annual operating losses, sell some fucking tickets and stop sitting on overpriced garage parking spaces! WTF is a history professor doing getting involved with running essentially a sports franchise???


Do they understand that those unsold tickets/spots are not inventory that can be sold at a later date and they expire after kickoff.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby TobaccoRoadEagle on Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:20 pm

last time villanova built a facility from one donor, Channing Tatum ended up dead. Won't someone think of the children?
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby twballgame9 on Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:28 pm

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:Won't someone think of the children?


Those people are focused on the election.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby ILikeBC on Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:32 am

Weight room up to 11,625 sq. ft. from the previously proposed 9,000
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby hansen on Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:47 am

It amazes me the number of permits needed for this project.
One of them is apparently required for the EPA according to page 35.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby ILikeBC on Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:50 am

hansen {l Wrote}:It amazes me the number of permits needed for this project.
One of them is apparently required for the EPA according to page 35.


I'm least surprised about the need for a federal environmental permit.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby BCSUPERFAN22 on Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:21 am

hansen {l Wrote}:It amazes me the number of permits needed for this project.
One of them is apparently required for the EPA according to page 35.


Did the Bruins/Celtics have to go through all this BS when they built their facilities in Boston ? Its amazing the process they have to go thru to build a roofed field on their own private land
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby twballgame9 on Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:28 am

The recent Bruins project appears to have had similar permitting that went smoothly. Much different neighborhood and connected with development run by a large local employer, rather than a fat cat institution of higher learning connected to the Catholic Church that pays no taxes and counts its gold coins.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby TobaccoRoadEagle on Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:30 am

twballgame9 {l Wrote}:The recent Bruins project appears to have had similar permitting that went smoothly. Much different neighborhood and connected with development run by a large local employer, rather than a fat cat institution of higher learning connected to the Catholic Church that pays no taxes and counts its gold coins.

except for the gold coins it spends on athlete's scholarships, of course
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby Eaglekeeper on Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:37 am

It's the same permit process depending on what you are building. There are many needless regulatory approvals that all developers have to go through. What concerns me is that BC is in violation of an existing agreement required to renovate and expand Alumni Stadium in 1993. Shea Field was designated as parking and BC will have to make up that parking elsewhere. The loss of the only open space on the campus is a real negative to this project. No reason the IPF cannot be built on the site of the Flynn Complex.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby twballgame9 on Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:40 am

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:
twballgame9 {l Wrote}:The recent Bruins project appears to have had similar permitting that went smoothly. Much different neighborhood and connected with development run by a large local employer, rather than a fat cat institution of higher learning connected to the Catholic Church that pays no taxes and counts its gold coins.

except for the gold coins it spends on athlete's scholarships, of course


Oh no, they count those too, that's why they are losing so many.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby DavidGordonsFoot on Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:41 am

hansen {l Wrote}:It amazes me the number of permits needed for this project.

I was going to say something about the local politicians needing to wet their beaks, but TRE would have turned it into a tranny joke.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby HJS on Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:46 am

ILikeBC {l Wrote}:Weight room up to 11,625 sq. ft. from the previously proposed 9,000

That means they got some backers to donate. In the begining of the Fall they were short by a few million. They had enough to build a IPF, however, the additional fund raising was to build the weightroom (which is essentially an add-on to the IPF. The amounts raised in the Fall was determine whether (a) there would be a weightroom and (b) if so, how large.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby BCSUPERFAN22 on Tue Nov 22, 2016 12:06 pm

Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:It's the same permit process depending on what you are building. There are many needless regulatory approvals that all developers have to go through. What concerns me is that BC is in violation of an existing agreement required to renovate and expand Alumni Stadium in 1993. Shea Field was designated as parking and BC will have to make up that parking elsewhere. The loss of the only open space on the campus is a real negative to this project. No reason the IPF cannot be built on the site of the Flynn Complex.


You can park cars on the site of the Flynn Complex. Considering the number of open spots in Robsham and up the side of the plex, combined with the death of Shea field, there will be more than enough spots (additionally, until dorms are apparently built, there will still be space on Shea in the back.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby Eaglekeeper on Tue Nov 22, 2016 1:48 pm

They also have other buildings planned for the Robsham lot and part of the Flynn Rec Plex. The rest of the area is really not for parking, but sidewalks and grass areas. In a few years it will cost $5,000 just to get a garage pass. They are definitely phasing out tailgating to a great extent. Hence why I keep stating the need to renovate Alumni Stadium and add club seats, etc. or move the big games to Gillette. There is zero consideration for tailgating and nominal consideration being given to football parking. It's not really a blame issue, but a space issue. BC's just has limited space options on campus to worry about tailgating for 7 days a year.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby TobaccoRoadEagle on Tue Nov 22, 2016 1:55 pm

Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:They also have other buildings planned for the Robsham lot and part of the Flynn Rec Plex. The rest of the area is really not for parking, but sidewalks and grass areas. In a few years it will cost $5,000 just to get a garage pass. They are definitely phasing out tailgating to a great extent. Hence why I keep stating the need to renovate Alumni Stadium and add club seats, etc. or move the big games to Gillette. There is zero consideration for tailgating and nominal consideration being given to football parking. It's not really a blame issue, but a space issue. BC's just has limited space options on campus to worry about tailgating for 7 days a year.

i think it's about time for you to suggest don brown as our new head football coach
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby twballgame9 on Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:15 pm

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:
Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:They also have other buildings planned for the Robsham lot and part of the Flynn Rec Plex. The rest of the area is really not for parking, but sidewalks and grass areas. In a few years it will cost $5,000 just to get a garage pass. They are definitely phasing out tailgating to a great extent. Hence why I keep stating the need to renovate Alumni Stadium and add club seats, etc. or move the big games to Gillette. There is zero consideration for tailgating and nominal consideration being given to football parking. It's not really a blame issue, but a space issue. BC's just has limited space options on campus to worry about tailgating for 7 days a year.

i think it's about time for you to suggest don brown as our new head football coach


if they fill in the corners they could extend the garage.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby BCSUPERFAN22 on Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:15 pm

Worry about tailgating spots when these apparent additions finally happen, until then it is what it is. If they are simply going to add green space/sidewalks, who's to say they wont just park people right on that 7x per year. If the demand is still there, they will find a way to accommodate people, its much more plausible than moving to Gillette when BCs demographic cant even fill Alumni.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby DuchesneEast on Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:22 pm

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:Worry about tailgating spots when these apparent additions finally happen, until then it is what it is. If they are simply going to add green space/sidewalks, who's to say they wont just park people right on that 7x per year. If the demand is still there, they will find a way to accommodate people, its much more plausible than moving to Gillette when BCs demographic cant even fill Alumni.


We should build a bullet train to Gillette with the money for the new stadium.
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby flyingelvii on Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:28 pm

DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:
BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:Worry about tailgating spots when these apparent additions finally happen, until then it is what it is. If they are simply going to add green space/sidewalks, who's to say they wont just park people right on that 7x per year. If the demand is still there, they will find a way to accommodate people, its much more plausible than moving to Gillette when BCs demographic cant even fill Alumni.


We should build a bullet train to Gillette with the money for the new stadium.

Well it would finally put BC on the map!
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby eepstein0 on Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:21 pm

If we eliminate tailgating does it mean you morons will actually get into the game on-time?
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby TobaccoRoadEagle on Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:51 pm

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:If we eliminate tailgating does it mean you morons will actually get into the game on-time?

just the opposite - it will be a long walk from applebees, roggies, etc
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Re: Facilities Announcement -- Press Conference Today

Postby ILikeBC on Tue Nov 22, 2016 7:02 pm

TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:
eepstein0 {l Wrote}:If we eliminate tailgating does it mean you morons will actually get into the game on-time?

just the opposite - it will be a long walk from applebees, roggies, etc


Ha, you think Applebees and Roggies still exist.
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