SHC - SI Basketball Games Re-scheduled
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Been a minute since I last saw a game at Kezar. Are the baseline upper deck seats still closed off? Man, Kezar brings back all those great WCAL City Teams matchup memories back in the 80's.
I went to a Riordan-SI game at Kezar back in that era…. Both bands blasting away, fans going nuts…. That was a heck of an experience!
Yes the upper seats are closed off permanently and have been for at least 15 years
Never understood why the alumni from
USF never got with the city and came together to just tear down kezar and build a nice 5000
Seat arena for USF to play there and please dont tell me USF doesnt have enough
Old money alumni to make it happen.
USF never got with the city and came together to just tear down kezar and build a nice 5000
Seat arena for USF to play there and please dont tell me USF doesnt have enough
Old money alumni to make it happen.
Because the land use of the area calls gor the space to be public and why woukd USF want to build an arena when they have what the consider adequate on campus? There is bad blood between the City and USF which is why USF built their own gym on campus.
Also, part of the reason Kezar is the way it is it would cost a fortune to tear down and rebuild with all yhe lead in that building. I am surprised tge amount of use it still gets
i mean those haight neighbors are alphabet folks, gentrifiers from wisconsin and ohio, and dont want all that noise and congestion in their area. its bad enough they dont even want the people from Mission district there.
and the parking lot now wouldnt fit a 5000 seat arena.
Just was always a thought with USF being so close that something could possibly be worked
Out between them and the city. lets face it USF or not kezar is a half of earthquake from coming down on its own any way the building Has been needed to be torn down for quite some time. How many cosmectic band-aid Renovantions can USF keep doing to war memorial? They have a great young coach
In todd golden and the pac 12 AD'S will come calling at season end (arizona state,stanford washington) USF is in need of an upgrade in terms of where they are currently playing.
Out between them and the city. lets face it USF or not kezar is a half of earthquake from coming down on its own any way the building Has been needed to be torn down for quite some time. How many cosmectic band-aid Renovantions can USF keep doing to war memorial? They have a great young coach
In todd golden and the pac 12 AD'S will come calling at season end (arizona state,stanford washington) USF is in need of an upgrade in terms of where they are currently playing.
SI-SHC have used Oracle Park for the baseball portion of the B-M, why can't the Chase Center be used for basketball? I would like to see a full day or 2 dedicated to the WCAL city rivals , BCL and AAA rival games - both boys and girls.
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I've bothered USF about that years ago. The current pavilion holds 10,000. I don't see why a new arena can't hold that much and not take up more space. A new parking lot deck would help too.
There were talks to use Chase the year they played it at Haas pavilion. The reason for not goingbto Chase plain and simple $$$$$.
You may say but what about Oracle? Well both schools have connections within the Giants orhanization that helps make the ease of using the facility less costly. I would love to see a nice basketball game pkayed under the lights at the oracle. Could be an awesome site. But yes the City should put on a City Showcase at Chase with the following line up
Stuart Hall v. UNI
Urban v. Lick
SI v. SHC
Serra v. Riordan
Lincoln v. Lowell/ Washington
Balboa v.Mission
A good six game bill. The BCL schools can be interwoven and the WCAL rotates the games among the four teams each year so they can feature both the Bruce Mahoney and the Jungle/Beach game and the Holy Wars while the AAA put in whatever four teams they wish
No way Kezar pavillion holds 10,000.
USF just completed a 3 year $15 million renovation of War Memorial Gym now know as the Sobrato Center. They will be playing basketball there for the rest of our lifetimes.
Some historical trivia: Way back in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the old WCAL tournament was drawing huge crowds at USF, the league commish, Ed Fennelly, proposed at one point that the tourney could be held at the Cow Palace and draw 10,00 on both nights. He was serious. Certain realities, rent/security costs for one thing, killed that notion.
RIP Mr. Fennelly. The WCAL's first commissioner and one of Riordan's founding fathers.
...and an outstanding athlete at St. Joseph's in Alameda way back in the day...
That had to have been a misprint or something. It's nowhere near that large and never has been.
I bet it meant to say 1000 because even the original blueprints of which my uncle has from working on the building in the 1920s say seating capacity of 4000
In the mid-1950s when USF was the top team in the nation, the Dons could cram about 5,000 into old Kezar on a good night. Of course, if you were unfortunate to have seats in the upper reaches of the dank tomb, you could barely see the ballgame due to all the accumulated cigarette/cigar smoke that filled the joint.
The SH Pep Band playing the Peter Gunn theme, SI playing the Budweiser song, the Riordan bands horn section, coming down that narrow ramp to run on that springy floor in front of thousands. Ya K32, it was a heck of an eperience.
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