St. John's Big 12 rumor/Pitino & Prime

Since subject included Big 12, thought I'd mention that Baylor has a new 7,500 seat campus arena, cost $212 million. Looks to have amenities, that go well beyond full, comfortable seats and air conditioning.
 
Marillac2 said:
Gonzaga didn’t make its first NCAA tournament until 1995. They made their second tournament (and the Elite 8 in 1999). Few Took over in the 1999-2000 season after 10 years as an assistant there.

Monson was only there for two seasons and has a losing record as a coach in his career. It looks like he was just in the right place at the right time for those two years as he inherited a very talented and experienced roster with no freshmen of his own.

Few deserves the lion’s share of the credit there. Without him they could have easily just been a St. Peter’s or Loyola Chicago.

Gonzaga losing Few down the line is a fear I’d have if they joined the conference…which is why I’d like to see it happen sooner than later.
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Was going to post similar. It was actually Dan Fitzgerald (a man I readily admit I've never heard of) who turned the program around before Monson. Apparently he was coach and AD. When he retired the new AD hired Monson. Fitzgerald took a moribund program and won 19 or more from 92-96 including their first dance that you mention.

Monson did have a winning record when you combine Gonzaga, Minn and LB State, he was 1 game under .500 at Long Beach and and 12 over at Minn. But his B1G record was awful. He only danced once at each of his schools.
 
Las Vegan said:
Since subject included Big 12, thought I'd mention that Baylor has a new 7,500 seat campus arena, cost $212 million. Looks to have amenities, that go well beyond full, comfortable seats and air conditioning.
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If they blow out both ends of Carnesecca Arena they can get the attendance to 7500.
 
If SJU only plans to play three games at CA it doesn’t make sense to expand CA but if Pitino plans to abandon Brooklyn and UBS and play seven or eight games at CA it might make sense to expand and modernize CA.
I say it might because construction costs are so high, especially in the NYC area that expansion could be out of the question.
 
I agree it would be great to expand if economically possible.
if you expand behind each basket, blow out east & west walls,
which will also allow corners too, you could prob add 2-3K seats
without using much outside real estate.

i Have no knowledge AT ALL about construction costs ? 5-10 mil ??
what do they pay MSG per game ? Plus lost concession sales ?
 
Redenbacher said:
I've always felt that was all they had to do to get rid of the high school gym feel to CA. Not sure how feasible it is engineering wise.
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They did an engineering study many years ago. It is not feasible to blow out the end zones and build out. They determined the only viable option was to build a new arena in the main parking lot. The later study which they did in 2018-20 determined pretty much the same, but they were able to propose to gut out Carnesecca arena and start new (coaches offices for Olympic sports, all new locker rooms for 17 teams, new sports med area as well as new weight rooms and equipment room. Too many other upgrades to mention here.
 
Stevep502 said:
I agree it would be great to expand if economically possible.
if you expand behind each basket, blow out east & west walls,
which will also allow corners too, you could prob add 2-3K seats
without using much outside real estate.

i Have no knowledge AT ALL about construction costs ? 5-10 mil ??
what do they pay MSG per game ? Plus lost concession sales ?
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I don’t think you could renovate the bathrooms for 5-10 mill in NYC😂
 
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