Life in the B1G is going to be very interesting for Cig and crew to begin his inaugural voyage on the road.
From the Rose Bowl to a dinky Soccer stadium
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Between that practice facility on the lake and new stadium, Northwestern is spending big $ on football.
I’m surprised they don’t have the 2024 home schedule laid out already. Seems like an important thing to plan. I guess they are confident they can mix and match as needed. Wild.
I’m surprised they don’t have the 2024 home schedule laid out already. Seems like an important thing to plan. I guess they are confident they can mix and match as needed. Wild.
That place will be great to see a game. And two of the best taco places in all of Chicago are ina couple of blocks.
Huge parking lot for tailgating. Could be a great time.
Huge parking lot for tailgating. Could be a great time.
Just about the wildest contrast you could have in your first two road games. The Grandaddy to a Peepsqueak.
Why in the world don't they just play it here as their Home game? It's not like we have anything close to a "home field advantage"... The bulk of our fans don't even bother to come inside from their Tailgate and many of the rest leave at halftime no matter what the circumstances...
If the NW Athletic Department had any sense they'd just negotiate the gate ($$$) and move on with their lives...
It’s the Cig Era, Memorial Stadium will become the Death Valley of the North. 😉
Evidently Stub Hub didn’t get the memo.
They are showing tickets for sale at their football stadium for the upcoming season.
They are showing tickets for sale at their football stadium for the upcoming season.
What amazes me is they are building their new stadium on the SAME SITE as the old one.
That place was a bitch to find parking. I thought they were going to move it close to their practice facility.
That stadium doesn't look like it's anywhere close to Evanston.
They won't draw crap for the IU game. It might have a neutral site feel with all the IU-Chicago alumni, combined with coach Cig entering 1st year rock-star status with the Hoosiers.
They won't draw crap for the IU game. It might have a neutral site feel with all the IU-Chicago alumni, combined with coach Cig entering 1st year rock-star status with the Hoosiers.
Maybe about 20 years ago I went to a game there with my friend and his son. We parked near Lake Michigan and walked to the stadium, which was a long distance away. We got a break because one student on a bicycle had a seating cart behind him and hauled us the final mile. We didn't get that same luck on the way back.
We didn't realize it was that kind of distance. I'm not sure how many miles. When my friend's son moved to Chicago we did all sorts of things I never imagined. One of them was riding the L-Train to Wrigley Field.
The L itself is not that fun, but game day at Wrigley is always fun.
The game was a 12-2 rout for the Marlins and Stanton hit a mammoth homer clear out of the stadium. That was only my second Wrigley game. The first was in 1975 against the Mets when Felix Millan hit a line drive foul off Paul Reuschel into the first base seats, hitting a beer vendor in the leg and the ball landing in front of me. He said something like "Good catch, you so and so."
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There is no gate to negotiate. Conference game revenues are pooled and redistributed. Indiana(and Northwestern) get a bump over what they contribute while the Big Three (UM, PSU, OSU) get less.
To another point elsewhere in this thread…. planning was hampered by two different sets of realignment. When Washington and Oregon joined, every potential schedule had to be redone, further complicated by the intricate puzzle of equitable travel needs of everyone. Conference dates for 25 and 26 are still being figured out (and may be meaningless if the ACC implosion brings in Florida State and others) and 24 dates were announced only 100 days or so ago.
That's TV revenue. I have to believe the gate receipts are the host's to keep. I will, of course, stand corrected.
You got to see Paul pitch? That’s cool. He plays golf in my winter league here in the south. He is a great guy.
Non-conference games revenues are the sole property of the home time (minus whatever guarantees/fees are contracted to the visitors).
PSL (whatever the terminology is used - a seat license requiring a one-time or annual payment in order to purchase season tickets) are also 100% the purview of the school.
Conference game ticket costs are pooled and resdistributed using a different proportion than the TV revenue, that is divided equally (including an extra share paid to the conference office).
The last report I read was 35% of net gate receipts (sales tax exempted) with a minimum of $300k and max cap of $1 million per game. That money was pooled and split equally. The big schools (OSU, Michigan, PSU, Nebraska, Wisconsin lost about $1 million in revenue per year,
He isn't remembered as much as his brother, Rick. But he was still good. I still have that foul ball from Millan as one of my souvenirs. Maybe you can mention that to him sometime.
I had that year incorrect. It had to have been 1975. I went to a couple of other trips with a friend to Milwaukee and Minnesota, and then St. Louis and Kansas City in 1972. It was good to be young and go places back then.
Yes. He told me that he and his brother hold the major league record as the only brother duo to combine for a complete game shut out.
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