(04-03-2013 01:07 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  Oh, I'm not trying to dampen your celebration....

Clearly...

(04-03-2013 04:03 PM)DrBox Wrote:  Congratulations. ECU has some really good players and the team pulled together and had a super end of the season.

Thanks for the kind words.......next year Cusa will be of two leagues:
One: ECU, Tulane, Tulsa...............Two: All others new and old

Us three will have to support and pull for each other.....starting now with +2 .......anything from Cusa others will most likely be negative reputation points.......sad but true:(

(04-03-2013 09:43 AM)apex_pirate Wrote:  

(04-03-2013 09:37 AM)ManiacMark Wrote:  

(04-03-2013 09:34 AM)apex_pirate Wrote:  

(04-03-2013 09:32 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  People have been waiting many years for ECU basketball to take a priority. Theres no doubt in my mind that if we were ever to become a consistent tourney team we could fill a 15k seat arena pretty easily.

Problem is, there isn't one in Greenville.

Keep winning and there will be...building facilities has never been our problem

This I would like to see. I'm a football fan through and through but at this point I'd rather see the $60M go towards a new arena than a football expansion. Somebody ask TH to change the state approval for those funds and redirect it to a new arena....and figure out how to come up with another ~$140M to pay for the rest.

The new Minges was opened my senior year at ECU and it seemed like the roof was designed in order to cost effectively be removed and a few more thousand seats added at a later point in time. It seemed like that was the reason the roof is so low now because of this design. Maybe, I had miss information at the time but I have always thought it was expandable not that I have had any reason to give it much thought in the last 20 some years. I really can't see us investing in a totally new arena

(04-03-2013 06:04 PM)PirateJeff Wrote:  

(04-03-2013 09:43 AM)apex_pirate Wrote:  

(04-03-2013 09:37 AM)ManiacMark Wrote:  

(04-03-2013 09:34 AM)apex_pirate Wrote:  

(04-03-2013 09:32 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  People have been waiting many years for ECU basketball to take a priority. Theres no doubt in my mind that if we were ever to become a consistent tourney team we could fill a 15k seat arena pretty easily.

Problem is, there isn't one in Greenville.

Keep winning and there will be...building facilities has never been our problem

This I would like to see. I'm a football fan through and through but at this point I'd rather see the $60M go towards a new arena than a football expansion. Somebody ask TH to change the state approval for those funds and redirect it to a new arena....and figure out how to come up with another ~$140M to pay for the rest.

The new Minges was opened my senior year at ECU and it seemed like the roof was designed in order to cost effectively be removed and a few more thousand seats added at a later point in time. It seemed like that was the reason the roof is so low now because of this design. Maybe, I had miss information at the time but I have always thought it was expandable not that I have had any reason to give it much thought in the last 20 some years. I really can't see us investing in a totally new arena

Well when it was built that was the word on the roof....Not sure how the addition of the practice facility would interact with that plan. I honestly do not think there is a real need to expand Minges....7500 in that place makes it a very tough place to play. I think we are getting ahead of ourselves here. Lets see how this thing go over the next several years before we decide we need more seats. The fans can make it happen by filling up Minges game in and game out....When that happens I promise they will do what it takes to expand.

I personally don't think they need to ever add a single seat to Minges. All they need to do is just renovate the interior, fix the scoreboard, audio, and streaming capabilities, and the place would be perfectly fine. You could probably do everything necessary to make Minges plenty nice enough for no more than 10 million.

(04-03-2013 06:43 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  I personally don't think they need to ever add a single seat to Minges. All they need to do is just renovate the interior, fix the scoreboard, audio, and streaming capabilities, and the place would be perfectly fine. You could probably do everything necessary to make Minges plenty nice enough for no more than 10 million.

Agreed...