ripdumaine
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imagine the meltdown on here if we lost to Columbia by 18. Worse than Fordham!!
UNC Getting Crushed
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indyredmen97
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Going to Hinkle Fieldhouse is like going to Wrigley or Fenway for the 1st time, here you are literally entering a time machine into college basketball. I live less than a block away (my wife had little trouble selling me on the house) and about the only thing better than the current experience would be to see my alma mater play here. Of course, everyone from Redmen.com would be invited over to party...I can always beg my wife forgiveness after the fact
indyredmen97
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Hinkle's exterior received a face lift this summer, fortunately they'll never change much to its appearance as the entire STATE would lose their mind if Butler tried. I agree that Butler is an ideal basketball only conference match (their football program is tiny and plays mostly local schools) should we end up having to go that route. The basketball program has so much support now with its elevated profile that I think it will shed any "mid major" label still lingering. They're around for the long haul. I would love it if we would schedule the bulldogs for a home and home, and if called upon, I will stand outside Hinkle playing "in your eyes" on a boombox over my head.
Moose
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Here is what I was reading-
Butler Univ. on Friday announced the “launch of a public fund-raising campaign to repair and modernize" the 84-year-old Hinkle Fieldhouse, according to David Woods of the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. Butler President James Danko said that the school has “already raised nearly $12 million in gifts and pledges.” Woods noted the campaign “ends Dec. 31, 2013, and there is no timetable for completion of a project that could exceed $30 million.” The first phase “began over the summer with tuck-pointing of 820,000 bricks and replacement of 9,700 window panes with energy-efficient glass.” Plans also include “more chairback seats in the arena, restrooms, scoreboard with video replay, coaches’ offices, academic center, remodeled locker rooms, and training and weightlifting rooms.” Danko said, “A place like this, you could spend $100 million. We’re trying to keep it in the $25-33 million range.” Woods noted Hinkle Fieldhouse is a National Historic Landmark, so “there are restrictions on what revisions may be made.” University leaders have “maintained they don’t want to change the appearance of the fieldhouse anyway.” The arena's “distinguishing features -- bricks, windows, ramps, raised floor, architecture -- will be unaffected in the building’s appearance” (INDYSTAR.com, 11/9). In Indianapolis, Scott Olson noted the announcement “comes about 2-½ years after the university began targeting its traditionally larger donors during the campaign’s ‘silent phase.’” The original renovation plan “called for $25 million in improvements but has been scaled back.” The university said that to complete the campaign, it will “offer several sponsorship options.” Donors can “put their names on brick pavers for $500, on chair-back seats for $1,000 and on lockers for $5,000” (IBJ.com, 11/9).
