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RPI 2025 Off-Season: Help Is On the Way

Wicked Slappaahs said:
Certainly bears watching. Call me crazy, but if there was even mild interest from Ivy "leadership" to not allow unfettered mask-wearing on-campus "death to Israel" protests on a weekly basis, I'd be willing to bet their foreign student troubles would diminish, but I digress.

In any event, Donuts has historically recruited heavily in the U.S.A - USNDTP and USHL. I think he had only a half dozen or so non-USA kids on last year's squad.
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I regret raising this issue on this forum. And I regret even more asking the question about the legality. It was misplaced sarcasm since there clearly is no legal basis for actions meant to intimidate Harvard, and others including non-Ivies, due to ideologic differences.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
Very true RB. D

Do folks have any thoughts on if our new great coach will bring in more kids for Fall, perhaps to hedge against a few Smith recruits decommitting ?
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I think he’s done for the fall. Maybe another forward. I will say it’s pretty impressive what lang was able to do in a short window. Obviously losing Caron and hotson sting although both were penalty machines but I really like the guys he’s bringing in. Some talented European players mixed with guys like Wallace and lindberg. Sobieski is a stud and van damme mixed with lemieux and klassek is a good D core. The addition of Schneider to the coaching staff is a game changer. The top recruiter for clarkson being flipped our way is crazy. Now if we can get some better looking sweaters for the fall I would say things are really looking good lol
 
Stonehill gets a major $15mil pledge from successful alum family to build new arena. The building appears to be a Q'pac-esque jointly lobbied facility with basketball and ice hockey surfaces. $65 million price tag. For those wondering what it would take in today's dollars, there's your info. If little old Stonehill can make it happen, there is NO reason RPI couldn't or shouldn't do a similarly sized project, be it a major reno or a new build. Period.

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Stonehill announces record $15 million gift for athletics to support construction of Tom & Kathleen Bogan Arena - College Hockey | USCHO.com

Stonehill has announced a landmark $15 million gift from Tom and Kathleen Bogan, kickstarting a fundraising campaign to support the construction of a new
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Engineers said:
I think he’s done for the fall. Maybe another forward. I will say it’s pretty impressive what lang was able to do in a short window. Obviously losing Caron and hotson sting although both were penalty machines but I really like the guys he’s bringing in. Some talented European players mixed with guys like Wallace and lindberg. Sobieski is a stud and van damme mixed with lemieux and klassek is a good D core. The addition of Schneider to the coaching staff is a game changer. The top recruiter for clarkson being flipped our way is crazy. Now if we can get some better looking sweaters for the fall I would say things are really looking good lol
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I agree and would add in credit to Karlis and Lange for their continued efforts in landing these kids...as well as working to keep the recruits Lang inherited.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
Stonehill gets a major $15mil pledge from successful alum family to build new arena. The building appears to be a Q'pac-esque jointly lobbied facility with basketball and ice hockey surfaces. $65 million price tag. For those wondering what it would take in today's dollars, there's your info. If little old Stonehill can make it happen, there is NO reason RPI couldn't or shouldn't do a similarly sized project, be it a major reno or a new build. Period.

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Stonehill announces record $15 million gift for athletics to support construction of Tom & Kathleen Bogan Arena - College Hockey | USCHO.com

Stonehill has announced a landmark $15 million gift from Tom and Kathleen Bogan, kickstarting a fundraising campaign to support the construction of a new
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That budget seems awfully low, particularly in greater Boston. Q's building, which is clean and modern but pretty basic, is a bit larger (3K in each arena) and cost $52M 20 years ago. It would probably be closer to $100M today. The three newest buildings I know, all just hockey arenas, are Union at $50M for a basic modern rink with just over 2K seats, UConn at about $70M for 2.6K seats and Sacred Heart at $80M for 3K seats. The last drawings I saw for Mohawk Harbor had eliminated the second level and placed some simple "boxes" at the top of the seating bowl on what is usually the standing room concourse - thereby further limiting SRO capacity. The two Connecticut rinks are much fancier than what Stonehill will apparently build (upstairs club levels, staff suites overlooking the ice at SHU, etc.), but they also don't include a separate basketball arena and construction costs have continued to increase over the nearly 5 years since they broke ground. Stonehill is going to have to do some serious value engineering to build twin 2.5K arenas and stay within a $65M budget.

The takeaway for RPI is that pretty much anything they do is going to be in the $65M-$100M range for what I anticipate to be a new 3K hockey arena or 4K renovated Field House - and the lower end of that spectrum will be hard to reach for all but the most basic of buildings. Then again, we could go Northeastern's route. They are planning to spend well over $300M for a 4K-5K hockey/basketball arena with student rec and athletic training facilities (including BB practice gym) above. They'd better be really good at putting the floor down and rapidly taking it out, however, because they still won't have a separate hockey practice rink.
 
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