What are posters best memories from those fifteen years?
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Definitely not 10,000 people there. It sounded like it though. Only the very first season of the Ryan Center had any games where SRO tickets were sold. In that first season, the Pitt game had 8121 and the Senior Night game vs UMass had a bit over 7700 technically exceeding the seating in the Ryan Center.Rhodysk wrote:1st one is the very first PeeCee game at the RC!
Game was played in a state shut down blizzard but somehow over 10,000 people showed up.
( before the fire laws)
2nd is seeing the faces of people like Tom Penders, Al Skinner, Tommy Garrick, Carlton Owens, Cuttino Mobley when they see the RC the first time and couldn't believe this was actually at URI.
Of all the crap that URI athletic dept gets ( sometimes well deserved) safe to say they hit it out of the park with the RC!
The Ryan Center opened in June 2002 with less restrictive fire codes which allowed for an additional 500 SRO. The Station nightclub fire occurred Thursday, February 20, 2003, in West Warwick claiming 100 fatalities. RI fire codes were then subsequently strengthened and SRO at the RC was eliminated. I understood it at the time given the limited exits. I however have always wondered if the ban on SRO tickets needed to remain AFTER the Meade west stands were constructed as they added many more exit routes.ATPTourFan wrote: Definitely not 10,000 people there. It sounded like it though. Only the very first season of the Ryan Center had any games where SRO tickets were sold. In that first season, the Pitt game had 8121 and the Senior Night game vs UMass had a bit over 7700 technically exceeding the seating in the Ryan Center.
Rhodysk wrote:1st one is the very first PeeCee game at the RC!
Game was played in a state shut down blizzard but somehow over 10,000 people showed up.
( before the fire laws)
2nd is seeing the faces of people like Tom Penders, Al Skinner, Tommy Garrick, Carlton Owens, Cuttino Mobley when they see the RC the first time and couldn't believe this was actually at URI.
Of all the crap that URI athletic dept gets ( sometimes well deserved) safe to say they hit it out of the park with the RC!
Great game. Great memories. I remember walking down from my dorm for that one!Rhodysk wrote:1st one is the very first PeeCee game at the RC!
Game was played in a state shut down blizzard but somehow over 10,000 people showed up.
( before the fire laws)
2nd is seeing the faces of people like Tom Penders, Al Skinner, Tommy Garrick, Carlton Owens, Cuttino Mobley when they see the RC the first time and couldn't believe this was actually at URI.
Of all the crap that URI athletic dept gets ( sometimes well deserved) safe to say they hit it out of the park with the RC!
You probably won't even recognize the campus. Leaps and bounds.DanInAZ wrote:I need to make it back sooner rather than later and check out the building and hopefully catch a game. Last time I was on campus was 1995.
A new football stadium next to the ryan and we have the nicest major sports felicities in New England outside of BC.OBRAM wrote:I would say the Ryan Center has been a huge success.
I would think a 12,000 seat new football stadium would also be a huge success, and I am not talking about a revamped Meade.
Ryan Center at 15, but is has been almost 20 years since the Ryan Center plan came into being, and no such plans for URI football, after all this time.
I'm going to Rentschler Field tomorrow for US vs. Ghana. I guess I'll be able to compare it to BC's stadium. The Ryan Center blows away Conte Forum, that's for sure.Rhodymob05 wrote:A new football stadium next to the ryan and we have the nicest major sports felicities in New England outside of BC.OBRAM wrote:I would say the Ryan Center has been a huge success.
I would think a 12,000 seat new football stadium would also be a huge success, and I am not talking about a revamped Meade.
Ryan Center at 15, but is has been almost 20 years since the Ryan Center plan came into being, and no such plans for URI football, after all this time.