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Post by fjs64 on Jul 29, 2014 12:43:48 GMT -5
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Post by Oldtimefan on Jul 29, 2014 13:25:11 GMT -5
Just ordered my three tickets this morning. Should be a fun day of hoops. Hopefully the Brown Indians will roll.
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Post by jh on Jul 29, 2014 16:54:44 GMT -5
Just ordered my three tickets this morning. Should be a fun day of hoops. Hopefully the Brown Indians will roll. Love the 2pm start to the double header !!
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Post by jh on Jul 30, 2014 5:36:27 GMT -5
12,500 is a healthy crowd - hope we top it
The first Big 4 basketball doubleheader was played in downtown Buffalo in 1996, when 12,508 fans saw Niagara play Buffalo while the Griffs took on the Bonnies in the evening.
This year Niagara will play Bonaventure at 2 p.m., followed by Canisius-UB at (roughly) 4:15. The event is the Saturday following Thanksgiving, so students should be back in town. Tickets start at $20 and are good for both games; floor seats will be $30.
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Post by Bonas08 on Jul 30, 2014 11:23:05 GMT -5
The event is the Saturday following Thanksgiving, so students should be back in town. Back in town... so does that mean SBU will bus up students?
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Post by Pinnum on Jul 30, 2014 12:16:54 GMT -5
The event is the Saturday following Thanksgiving, so students should be back in town. Back in town... so does that mean SBU will bus up students? I, also, was wondering about the comment by JH. I took it to mean the Buffalo area students will be home on account of Thanksgiving so they will be local for the game. Though I could be wrong...
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Post by schmidtface on Jul 30, 2014 18:35:44 GMT -5
Oh come on why can't they just make it a tournament!
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Post by tastylicks on Jul 31, 2014 7:11:48 GMT -5
why are we first? We will have the biggest turnout there. We should be the second game. I'm not sticking around to watch 2 teams I hate with a passion play, and I suspect most Bonnie fans would do the same. We will all head to the bar and the place will be empty. Put us second and some of us might show up early that way UB can have some people in the stands for once!
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Post by Eagle on Aug 6, 2014 18:58:45 GMT -5
I believe the order of play should be determined by the combined RPI for respective contests with the teams having the lowest combined RPI playing in the second game.
What is the urgency in assigning times at this point?
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Post by fjs64 on Aug 6, 2014 20:29:46 GMT -5
why are we first? We will have the biggest turnout there. We should be the second game. I'm not sticking around to watch 2 teams I hate with a passion play, and I suspect most Bonnie fans would do the same. We will all head to the bar and the place will be empty. Put us second and some of us might show up early that way UB can have some people in the stands for once! In the old days, when I was attending (1960-64) many weekends (6 or 7 per year) we played doubleheaders at the Aud in Buffalo. We were always the first game, with Canisius in the 2nd game. Obviously we were the better team, especially my freshman year when we were ranked 2nd in the nation. In retrospect, it didn't matter, the game started at 7pm ....it may have saved some lives, some of those trip were treacherous, and old Route 16 was not fun. I can still remember driving into snow banks, and one time I got to drive becasue the guy who owned the car was not in condition to drive, somehow I must have lost focus because I ended up driving in a field....no damage, but everyone was now awake.
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Post by sony on Aug 6, 2014 22:36:49 GMT -5
No one ever got hammered during "road trips" to the Aud when I went there!!!!!
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Post by az63 on Aug 6, 2014 23:16:54 GMT -5
fjs-remember those doubleheaders well. Unless we played Canisius, we were always 1st game and would only stay for 2nd game if Canisius was playing an interesting team. The weather could be brutal though. Remember once staying at the Hotel Woerth and it was so windy & snowy that the hotel had a heavy rope attached to the outside of the building with huge I-hooks so you could hang on. In my senior year it snowed so much starting a couple of hours before game time on Saturday that we had to stay at a classmate's girlfriend's home until Wednesday!! Route 16 was crazy and dangerous. Saw some great games.
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Post by jh on Aug 7, 2014 6:00:13 GMT -5
I'm just happy that we are back playing a game in downtown Buffalo - last time played this type doubleheader drew 12k+ lets see if we get even more this time. The early start should allow for draws from Rochester and Olean and Niagara Falls. Now - how do we get a 2nd and 3rd game in this place? - making us even more attractive to parents of Toronto players who wish to watch their sons play just 1 hr away in a major arena.
For you out of towners - the Arena will have a full Marriott Hotel connected to it, a seven story double ice rink Hockey Center of excellence connected to it, a Courtyard Marriott 1 block to the north and a Casino one block to the east. An easy fly into Buffalo and $20 cab downtown - no rental car, no snowy 90 minute drive down rt16/rt219. Anyone who has not yet seen the developments downtown next to the arena with Canalside and Harbor Center/Marriott will be impressed - a billionaire owner Terry Pegula spending his money makes such things happen at a rate not seen in Buffalo in decades. Lets be part of that -not many college teams play their games in such an impressive complex - recruits tend to like such things! A game on A10 TV might look good there as well...
Lets think big boys - we can be there !!
Keep in mind - this in no way replaces the Reilly Center - it allows us to present to recruits we have a great 1-2 punch, We play 3 games in our major complex up in a major city and then when not playing there we play games back on our campus in our legendary Reilly Center.
Coaches like that prick Martelli love to tell recruits we are competing for that they should not attend SBU its too small/rural etccc,,,, games up here throws water on such a claim - we actually have the best of both worlds
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Post by Eagle on Aug 7, 2014 9:54:55 GMT -5
Pegula is making a huge impact in Buffalo.
He just completed a major sale of assets ($1+B) meaning he has to roll the investment over (Bills) or page huge taxes...and the guy evidently loves Buffalo.
For the FNA to thrive as a college arena I believe adding seat tarps or curtains to make it smaller would be a huge assist. They do this for the Siena games at the TCU and it brings the crowd closer and provides for a much better feel. Bring in the right teams and the FNC could be filled...I recall scalping tickets at the old Aud when Murphy and Lanier were playing...great times….and Lanier’s Dad who was as entertaining as the games…a very proud man and rightfully so.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 17:48:42 GMT -5
Come on if there are 6000 people there it will be a good night. The days of sold out double headers are long gone. Buffalo does not care about college basketball. Playing there once a year is fine, but to think playing in Buffalo is going to bring in the recruits is not based in reality. I love Buffalo I have season tickets to the Bills and I follow the Sabres it is a great place, but it is not a Mecca for college basketball.
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