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Post by Happy Fortune on Jan 30, 2022 23:10:02 GMT -5
The basketball season is pretty much over for the men’s side of things so can we pivot to pressuring the AD for some sort of arena update?
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Post by stlexplorer on Jan 31, 2022 10:55:16 GMT -5
How we've heard absolutely nothing is crazy to me
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Post by explorer88 on Jan 31, 2022 12:43:16 GMT -5
How we've heard absolutely nothing is crazy to me Probably because it is never going to happen. Until I see it, I will never believe. This is like the 23rd time I have heard we are renovating the facility and it never happens. |
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Post by diehardexplorer on Jan 31, 2022 14:25:34 GMT -5
my guess is if there is anything to the arena renovation talk, no announcement will be made until the new president is either announced or already on board.
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Post by explorer88 on Jan 31, 2022 16:42:06 GMT -5
my guess is if there is anything to the arena renovation talk, no announcement will be made until the new president is either announced or already on board. Interesting take. Save the big news and have a new President announce it. Very plausible. I like it. |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jan 31, 2022 16:55:07 GMT -5
my guess is if there is anything to the arena renovation talk, no announcement will be made until the new president is either announced or already on board. New President gets announced tomorrow. HE has a lot of fundraising experience. I did hear today that we do NOT get the appreciated value of the Glaser donation. In other words...any amount it grew over the past 8 to 9 years doesn't matter. It is not in our assets yet and we don't get the investment income, just the original amount. This is probably part of the delay, along with heavy hitter donors waiting until the new President is named before writing their checks. A certain amount has to be raised before they "announce" the plans. |
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Post by SICguy84 on Jan 31, 2022 18:13:53 GMT -5
my guess is if there is anything to the arena renovation talk, no announcement will be made until the new president is either announced or already on board. New President gets announced tomorrow. HE has a lot of fundraising experience. I did hear today that we do NOT get the appreciated value of the Glaser donation. In other words...any amount it grew over the past 8 to 9 years doesn't matter. It is not in our assets yet and we don't get the investment income, just the original amount. This is probably part of the delay, along with heavy hitter donors waiting until the new President is named before writing their checks. A certain amount has to be raised before they "announce" the plans. Now I play the guessing game . . . Does HE have connections to old standbys CBU and Le Meyone?!? |
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Jan 31, 2022 18:52:18 GMT -5
my guess is if there is anything to the arena renovation talk, no announcement will be made until the new president is either announced or already on board. New President gets announced tomorrow. HE has a lot of fundraising experience. Where is this coming from? Typical La Salle, nothing on social media and not even a release on the school's website. That would have gotten me in trouble 20+ years ago when I worked there - the press release part, not the social media part |
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Post by diehardexplorer on Jan 31, 2022 20:51:45 GMT -5
New President gets announced tomorrow. HE has a lot of fundraising experience. Where is this coming from? Typical La Salle, nothing on social media and not even a release on the school's website. That would have gotten me in trouble 20+ years ago when I worked there - the press release part, not the social media part what about "tomorrow" don't you understand??? it's not being announced until "tomorrow". |
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Jan 31, 2022 20:53:38 GMT -5
Where is this coming from? Typical La Salle, nothing on social media and not even a release on the school's website. That would have gotten me in trouble 20+ years ago when I worked there - the press release part, not the social media part what about "tomorrow" don't you understand??? it's not being announced until "tomorrow". Thanks for the sarcasm, Diehard |
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Post by diehardexplorer on Feb 13, 2022 12:47:50 GMT -5
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Post by a10champion15 on Mar 21, 2022 16:09:56 GMT -5
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Post by explorer88 on Mar 21, 2022 16:11:28 GMT -5
Who Hoo!!!!’
Let’s get it!!!!
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Mar 21, 2022 16:11:52 GMT -5
Not too excited. Didn't we know this?
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Post by a10champion15 on Mar 21, 2022 16:20:37 GMT -5
Not too excited. Didn't we know this? Some knew this, I wasn't aware that they've gone forward with the design process and nobody mentioned that on here as well, just that they were definitely going to spend the money in some renovation fashion. I think a lot of people that aren't connected which is most on this board are happy to see some transparency. |
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Post by charmcityexplorer on Mar 21, 2022 16:27:22 GMT -5
Cut and paste from my posting in March 2019:
The February 28 [2019] Collegian has an article about the Campus Master Plan, which will be presented to the BOT this month. Per the article: “The TruMark project will be broken into different parts. The court reconfiguration and renovation will come first, followed by the fieldhouse and ‘pub,’ instead of attacking the elements together.”
I assume this is “the next phase of the design process” alluded to in today’s email, but who knows what has happened in the past three years? Where’s Jellybean when we need him? I really miss that guy….
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Mar 21, 2022 16:29:44 GMT -5
More details in the release would have been nice. I saw more in November that included everything from the track to the swimming pool. Maybe they make a category for this tomorrow in the DoG site.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Mar 21, 2022 16:30:09 GMT -5
More details in the release would have been nice. I saw more in November that included everything from the track to the swimming pool. Maybe they make a category for this tomorrow in the DoG site. wait there's a track. torpey rolling over in his grave. |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Mar 21, 2022 16:32:44 GMT -5
More details in the release would have been nice. I saw more in November that included everything from the track to the swimming pool. Maybe they make a category for this tomorrow in the DoG site. wait there's a track. torpey rolling over in his grave. You've heard those plans as a track alum, right? Make it actually able to be used as a home track |
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Mar 21, 2022 16:40:01 GMT -5
wait there's a track. torpey rolling over in his grave. You've heard those plans as a track alum, right? Make it actually able to be used as a home track Oh an outdoor track. I thought you were telling me that they were going to add something indoors. Torp tried that too. They wouldn't blow out the East side brick stands. |
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Post by 1863 on Mar 21, 2022 16:57:00 GMT -5
Personally, I'm MOST excited about the new furniture.  The rest of that is like a non-announcement, announcement. As "Glitterbro #2" said, "More details in the release would have been nice." |
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Post by diehardexplorer on Mar 21, 2022 22:04:20 GMT -5
Not too excited. Didn't we know this? i believe this is the first time i've seen in writing that the next phase of the arena project has finally been approved by the board. |
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Post by 23won on Mar 22, 2022 7:54:04 GMT -5
It’s the next phase of arena design, not the next phase of arena change implementation
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Post by stlexplorer on Mar 22, 2022 8:12:29 GMT -5
Can anyone confirm if the plan is still those renderings we saw what feels like a couple years ago?
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Post by explorer88 on Mar 22, 2022 8:19:14 GMT -5
It’s the next phase of arena design, not the next phase of arena change implementation It must begin in 2023 which was suspected and confirmed on the release yesterday so regardless we are close to having this happen. |
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Post by 23won on Mar 22, 2022 9:34:49 GMT -5
It’s the next phase of arena design, not the next phase of arena change implementation It must begin in 2023 which was suspected and confirmed on the release yesterday so regardless we are close to having this happen. I'll believe it when I see construction half-way complete |
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Post by nvrlst on Mar 22, 2022 13:43:28 GMT -5
I hear a lot of “the new president has fundraising experience” - ALL college/university and even private high school presidents have fund raising experience - it’s part of their job.
The problem is, La Salle has a lot of high net worth alum (say in their 50s and 60s) - who have been ignored by the university for the last 30 or 40 years. They don’t have the connection to the place anymore - they may have been on campus 5 times since 1982. They’re not going to write a 7 figure check all of a sudden, they have their donation causes lined up.
There are exceptions, but you need A LOT of exceptions to raise that kind of money.
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Post by nyalum on Mar 23, 2022 10:04:52 GMT -5
With the Glaser gift-was it a requirement that the physical reconfiguration of TGA and Trumark starts in 2023 in order to activate it? Or did La Salle have 10 years to get it started while coming up with the additional financing and it took us 9 to do so?
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Post by talkinbball on Mar 24, 2022 6:06:30 GMT -5
It’s the next phase of arena design, not the next phase of arena change implementation This. From what we have seen thus far, how do we know this doesn't mean they just bought new lead for the pencil? |
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Post by 23won on Mar 24, 2022 7:30:19 GMT -5
With the Glaser gift-was it a requirement that the physical reconfiguration of TGA and Trumark starts in 2023 in order to activate it? Or did La Salle have 10 years to get it started while coming up with the additional financing and it took us 9 to do so? He knew La Salle would kick the can even coming off a Sweet 16 success. This is La Salle U not the HS (where he also was vey generous). So he put a time limit on the match and three ADs and two presidents have yet to ring the bell. So La Salle U |
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