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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2254241, member: 1526"] 10 million $$$. That's sad. The Patriots built 60,000-seat Schaefer Stadium for 7 mil in 1971. We could have built a larger arena than Gampel in the 1970's for what it's now costing just to replace the roof on this one. UConn has always been 20+ years behind the times. A friend of mine who attended UConn before the Field House was constructed spent four years on campus and never could get in to see a game in the old Hawley Armory...every game was SRO. His friends finally decided he was going to get to see at least one game while he was still a student. They went to the entrance, lifted him up over their heads mosh pit style, and sort of catapulted him over a mob of people waiting to get in. That was the one and only UConn game he ever got to see as a student. That place was obsolete the day it opened, and so were the Field House (1954) and Gampel (1990). [/QUOTE]