McGuirk Upgrade

[UMass'96]

How about Smith and Wesson? They are headquartered in Springfield. A large, local company with significant brand recognition. I believe that they quite profitable at the moment.... It's also consistent with being a Minuteman.

[MJatUM]

^ OH MY GOD I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN.

The Globe would burn to the ground from all the hot takes that would come out of there.

[McKinney]

In September 2003, MCCA entered into an agreement with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for naming rights of the new Springfield Civic Center. In consideration for a payment of $5 million, the Springfield Civic Center was designated as the MassMutual Center.

https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/20 ... 12723a.pdf

Okay, best case scenario MassMutual scales proportionally with inflation and stadium capacity (let's say it's 30k vs 8k). That's like $25M over 15 years.

Then again, UConn's Stadium was named for P&W founder Frederick Rentschler for 75 acres and a $2M donation, for a total estimate of probably less than $5M over 15 years?

Houston's stadium's naming rights were $22.5M over 15 years.

UCF was $15M over 15 years in 2006, so $18.5M today?

[TruBluMaroon]

I personally would have no issues seeing a game at Big Y field at Yankee Candle Stadium overlooking the Price Chopper Football Performance Center.

FYI, the Football Performance Center has a name. But I wouldn’t mind seeing Sam Adams Stadium.....can join Miller and Coors.

[Floyd]

Yankee Candle Stadium. Probably have LED candle bulbs in the light towers. Not a great look

[InnervisionsUMASS]

hmm, guess you'd hyphenate it unless the figure was obscene, as the T-Mobile - McGuirk Stadium. For an obscene amount T-Modile Stadium and move Warren McGuirk on to the field as Jack Leaman Court. No one is ever suggesting removing William Mullins from the building and of course is not the focus here as this is Football Forum.

If it's a new stadium from scratch, there's no need for hyphenation. Name the field itself after Warren McGuirk if you'd like, but it's a new building from scratch (or essentially from scratch), it can have a new name.

[sloves90_611]

Beer & Wine going to be available @McG & The Bill this year.

[McKinney]

Not really sure if this belongs here, but oh well.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-fo ... 1535634001

For those who don't get the Journal here's the "Attendance Gap Leaders":

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TOP 10 WORST ATTENDANCE GAPS
SCHOOL			ANNOUNCED ATTENDANCE	SCANNED TICKETS
Coastal Carolina*	89,754			15,248
Louisiana Monroe	49,640			13,302
Buffalo			80,102			22,233
Eastern Michigan	73,649			23,282
Miami (Ohio)		98,666			35,582
Akron			117,416			43,675
Arkansas State		119,538			45,631
San Jose State		85,235			33,892
Ohio U			116,325			47,579
UTEP			97,740			45,444

UMass came in near the 40th percentile with scanned attendance ~8 percentage points below the average of 71%. So I suppose at least Bamford and Co. are running a relatively "ethical" ship. We did however come in as the 6th worst in FBS scanned attendance and 2nd worst announced attendance.

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TOP 10 WORST SCANNED ATTENDANCE
SCHOOL			ANNOUNCED ATTENDANCE	SCANNED TICKETS
Louisiana Monroe	49,640			13,302
Coastal Carolina*	89,754			15,248
Buffalo			80,102			22,233
Eastern Michigan	73,649			23,282
Ball State		59,395			28,180
Massachusetts		51,448			32,606
Kent State		65,924			33,316
San Jose State		85,235			33,892
Miami (Ohio)		98,666			35,582
Central Michigan	67,520			37,686

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TOP 10 WORST ANNOUNCED ATTENDANCE
SCHOOL			ANNOUNCED ATTENDANCE	SCANNED TICKETS
Louisiana Monroe	49,640			13,302
Massachusetts		51,448			32,606
Ball State		59,395			28,180
Georgia Southern*	61,031			55,399
Kent State		65,924			33,316
Central Michigan	67,520			37,686
Northern Illinois	67,748			44,529
Charlotte		71,420			41,853
Eastern Michigan	73,649			23,282
Louisiana Lafeyette	78,754			43,621

[harbo]

^ The "worst announced attendance" chart gives a good indication of the correctness of the move away from the MAC. It is a good competitive league for those wanting to stay mid-major in football, but not where most wanted UMass football (and other sports) to be. I am surprised to see Georgia Southern in with that group. I thought there would be more interest in the program than the attendance is indicating.

[minutefanjsf]

^ The "worst announced attendance" chart gives a good indication of the correctness of the move away from the MAC. It is a good competitive league for those wanting to stay mid-major in football, but not where most wanted UMass football (and other sports) to be. I am surprised to see Georgia Southern in with that group. I thought there would be more interest in the program than the attendance is indicating.

Last year's home slate was not going to attract huge crowds. Add in the 0-6 start and you get what we got. I think BYU will be near 20k. I'd love it to be more, but I think Umass will bring about 14k as the only Gillettte game and BYU around 6k. Band day could get us to 25k. One win of the next three brings us back home at .500. My hope is we win two, pipe dream to win all three. With a .500 or better record hopefully we sell out or come close for Charlotte. I hope scanned attendance is above 15k per game. I know announced will be. USF should sell out.

[nighttrain777]

Another new stadium in Texas.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/mckinne ... y-football

[McKinney]

^ I've been to that town.


Wow did I have some baaaaaad hair Freshman year or what? Also beer + UMass Dining = Freshman 15

[dennisdent]

Which one is you?

[InnervisionsUMASS]

Which one is you?

[Berkman]

Campus construction projects from the FB blog including the bubble and scoreboard toward the end of the article.

https://dailycollegian.com/2018/09/umas ... -semester/