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Interesting NY Times article on Fordham's historic 89-year-old Rose Hill Gym:
Among a growing crop of slick new basketball arenas, Fordham’s 89-year-old Rose Hill Gym is a venerable throwback, one of the few still in use that were built during the lifetime of basketball’s inventor, James Naismith. Its walls, made of sturdy bricks of Manhattan schist, seem destined to withstand all challengers.
All challengers except, perhaps, Fordham fans, some of whom grumble that Rose Hill, for all its charms, is one reason the men’s basketball team has had trouble attracting talent lately.
“I love it, but I think most people would say, ‘Come on, you can’t have a major Division I program playing in a place like that,’ ” said the former N.B.A. coach P. J. Carlesimo, who played and coached for the Rams. “I do think it’s a real problem.”
He continued, “I love it, but I’m probably one of the few people who love it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/s...tball-gym-has-history-if-not-allure.html?_r=0
Go Gophers!!
Among a growing crop of slick new basketball arenas, Fordham’s 89-year-old Rose Hill Gym is a venerable throwback, one of the few still in use that were built during the lifetime of basketball’s inventor, James Naismith. Its walls, made of sturdy bricks of Manhattan schist, seem destined to withstand all challengers.
All challengers except, perhaps, Fordham fans, some of whom grumble that Rose Hill, for all its charms, is one reason the men’s basketball team has had trouble attracting talent lately.
“I love it, but I think most people would say, ‘Come on, you can’t have a major Division I program playing in a place like that,’ ” said the former N.B.A. coach P. J. Carlesimo, who played and coached for the Rams. “I do think it’s a real problem.”
He continued, “I love it, but I’m probably one of the few people who love it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/s...tball-gym-has-history-if-not-allure.html?_r=0
Go Gophers!!