(1) Georgetown; (2) Villanova; (3) Marquette; (4) UCLA, USC or LMU (my chance to visit the folks back home); (5) Providence; (6) Loyola (Chi.); (7) San Francisco; (8) Gonzaga; (9) St. John's ; (10) IUPUI (just so I can figure out where they're from and what it stands for). -- Fordham Rams Basketball Message Board

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Date Posted: Wed April 27, 2005 19:43:48
Author: John
Subject: (1) Georgetown; (2) Villanova; (3) Marquette; (4) UCLA, USC or LMU (my chance to visit the folks back home); (5) Providence; (6) Loyola (Chi.); (7) San Francisco; (8) Gonzaga; (9) St. John's ; (10) IUPUI (just so I can figure out where they're from and what it stands for).
In reply to: Rambacker 's message, "If you could pick one school to start a home and home series with, who would it be? My choice: Gonzaga." on Wed April 27, 2005 14:20:22

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Good list. The problem with the Big East teams like Georgetown, Nova and Marquette is getting the return games. Most of them already play in the Garden against St. John's and the BE has that league rule that requires minimum seating capacity for away games(6500?). I like UCLA and USC a lot - we could probably do a home and home with our home game at MSG for those two teams. Loyola, Chicago makes sense for student recruiting purposes in Chicago and the Jesuit connection. (NT) -- Rambacker, Wed April 27, 2005 20:02:44
- I probably should have put Santa Clara in the list as well. I like the idea of a "Western Swing" every other year. It would help boost student and athlete recruiting from the Golden State. (NT) -- John, Thu April 28, 2005 06:07:43
- Rambacker--we ought to find out for sure the minimum seating capacity which the B.E. and other major conferences require. Some day (the sooner the better) we may actually build a new gym. The seating capacity must take into account not only realistic estimates of the crowds we can attract to the campus, BUT ALSO the capacity needed to schedule major opponents for games in that new gym. We shouldn't have to use the Garden every time we play a major opponent. If we eventually play home games against OOC teams like Kentucky, NC State, Stanford etc., we should be able to play as many of them as possible ON CAMPUS. We may not need a 14,000-seat arena, but we sure as hell shouldn't build one for 6,000 if that constrains our scheduling of home games. (NT) -- BLT, Thu April 28, 2005 09:55:37
  - Besides asking how big an arena should be to accomodate the program we envision, we also should be asking how big it realistically can be given our tight space situation and other priorities that also need to be accomodated. We're not just talking a simple doubling of the RHG footprint. If you want to see how big a modern approx. 7,000 seat arena is just venture up to URI's Ryan Center. It can be done but it really should happen as part of an integrated center and rebuilding of the entire north side of campus, and that's going to take serious lead time and dollars. (NT) -- DamnRam, Thu April 28, 2005 11:30:40
  - I was told several years ago that the Big East minimum at the time for road games was 6500. Don't know if that was accurate or not. It may be more now. (NT) -- Rambacker, Thu April 28, 2005 11:50:29