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claver2010 {l Wrote}:@PeteThamel
SOURCES: Boston College has received a $15 million lead gift to build a new men’s and women’s basketball practice facility connected to Conte Forum. The total facility is estimated to cost around $37 million. More than $20 million has already been raised for the project. 1/2

The gift is from Mikey and Jay Hoag, and the facility will be named Hoag Basketball Pavilion. It will include 40,000 square feet of basketball specific space. The upgrade will be a drastic improvement for basketball facilities long regarded as the worst in the ACC. 2/2

claver2010 {l Wrote}:@PeteThamel
SOURCES: Boston College has received a $15 million lead gift to build a new men’s and women’s basketball practice facility connected to Conte Forum. The total facility is estimated to cost around $37 million. More than $20 million has already been raised for the project. 1/2

The gift is from Mikey and Jay Hoag, and the facility will be named Hoag Basketball Pavilion. It will include 40,000 square feet of basketball specific space. The upgrade will be a drastic improvement for basketball facilities long regarded as the worst in the ACC. 2/2

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

claver2010 {l Wrote}:@PeteThamel
SOURCES: Boston College has received a $15 million lead gift to build a new men’s and women’s basketball practice facility connected to Conte Forum. The total facility is estimated to cost around $37 million. More than $20 million has already been raised for the project. 1/2

The gift is from Mikey and Jay Hoag, and the facility will be named Hoag Basketball Pavilion. It will include 40,000 square feet of basketball specific space. The upgrade will be a drastic improvement for basketball facilities long regarded as the worst in the ACC. 2/2

Spending $37M on a basketball facility and hiring Earl Grant just doesn’t compute to me.

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

claver2010 {l Wrote}:@PeteThamel
SOURCES: Boston College has received a $15 million lead gift to build a new men’s and women’s basketball practice facility connected to Conte Forum. The total facility is estimated to cost around $37 million. More than $20 million has already been raised for the project. 1/2

The gift is from Mikey and Jay Hoag, and the facility will be named Hoag Basketball Pavilion. It will include 40,000 square feet of basketball specific space. The upgrade will be a drastic improvement for basketball facilities long regarded as the worst in the ACC. 2/2

Spending $37M on a basketball facility and hiring Earl Grant just doesn’t compute to me.

This is step 1 towards becoming better at basketball

durkcal {l Wrote}:

eepstein0 {l Wrote}:

claver2010 {l Wrote}:@PeteThamel
SOURCES: Boston College has received a $15 million lead gift to build a new men’s and women’s basketball practice facility connected to Conte Forum. The total facility is estimated to cost around $37 million. More than $20 million has already been raised for the project. 1/2

The gift is from Mikey and Jay Hoag, and the facility will be named Hoag Basketball Pavilion. It will include 40,000 square feet of basketball specific space. The upgrade will be a drastic improvement for basketball facilities long regarded as the worst in the ACC. 2/2

Spending $37M on a basketball facility and hiring Earl Grant just doesn’t compute to me.

This is step 1 towards becoming better at basketball

Agreed. But maybe the money only came through on the condition of who they hired? Regardless, I think Grant doesn't have seven to eight years of paychecks with mediocre basketball now. Timeline just got shortened. I'm personally unconvinced that this changes the attraction of the program for kids all that much.

Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:They already have enough money to build the facility and furnish it. It does not cost 37 million to build a 40,000 square foot building. At most this is a $400 per square foot building. A skyscraper cost $600 per square foot and that includes a lot of interior walls. This facility is mostly wide open space. It’s easy to build and maintain.

The additional money is too fund the maintenance and personnel cost of the building. BC will borrow all of the money to build this facility. All of the cash contributions will be kept in the endowment.

Go Eagles!

claver2010 {l Wrote}:http://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/calendar/2021/08/17/boston-college-task-force-meeting

too bad no one zoom bombed it

BostonCollege1 {l Wrote}:

MF73-Eleazar {l Wrote}:Nice. Where would they put it? Where Edmonds used to be (rip).

They just put the new Plex where Edmonds used to be.