What’s your point? That we would like NU around be a “big boy” program, but not on a “big boy” operating budget?
Northwestern football will return to Wrigley Field in 2020 to face Wisconsin
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What’s your point? That we would like NU around be a “big boy” program, but not on a “big boy” operating budget?
1. It's a bad location if you want to draw fans to watch a this current team during the work or school week. Logistically it's fine, sure, but it's a bad location otherwise. They will look to build their next park in the South Loop when their current stadium lease is up.
2. It's a terrible team by design. The Cubs don't have Kris Bryant if they don't lose 100 games in 2013. Cubs fans who make fun of the Sox for being bad right now are pretty much idiotic and I'm not saying you're making fun of them.
3. Cubs fans have gone from "the lovable losers" to "the most insufferable winners possible" in a few short years.
The real reason I was hoping they would not win. THey were bad enough as losers but...
You mean with Trump winning his second term and the general media crapping all over themselves again? You are right that is a significant event. Fun times....
When you have great seats on the 50 and replace them for a game with those sight lines....
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The point is the $600 donation had to be by today to count towards getting access to parking
But generally we do well with WIS in attendance averaging about 42k or more out of 47K Don't need Wrigley to boost the attendance for that game and it really can't
I would think logistics are the more important for people wanting to go during the work or school week. Wouldn't the concept be they want easy ingress and egress? The frills around the stadium would be more for the weekend crowd.
Not sure what the current status is, but in the past I've seen plenty of people tailgate a bit in the Sox lots.
Not for the millennial crowd it's not. Why go ~8 miles south to Bridgeport/Armour Square and spend +$100 to drink for 2-3 hours when you can pregame at bars, go to the game, and go out after at Wrigley? 25-35 year olds will drink any night of the week and only need a gentle nudge to do so. Where the Cell is located gives that demo zero incentive to go to an actual game, and that's the demo that fills a lot of the seats at Wrigley and has for decades now, even though a lot of the crowd isn't "diehard".
Again, I'm in that demo and as a diehard Sox fan, I usually only go to Friday/Saturday games, though I'll catch a weekday game if it's a great pitching matchup. They need an area that has tourist overfill, has a popping night life scene, and that has post grads with $$$ in their pockets for the first time ever moving into the area in droves. That's why they'll move to the South Loop in 2030 when their current lease is up.
St. Louis is a dump of a city (sorry if this offends) but the stadium is right smack dab downtown and they built and awesome bar scene legit across the street from the stadium. This is what the Sox are going to do. It may not seem like it, but the Cell (I'll always call it that) is already the 5th oldest stadium in baseball. Only Wrigley, Fenway, Dodger Stadium and the Oakland Coliseum are older.
If that's the ill, not sure that the panacea is South Loop...it has more of the above, for sure, but it's not Lakeview. Sounds to me like you're saying the issue is the stadium isn't on the north side of the city, which it will never be.
Of course it won't be. But the SL offers a much, much better alternative than Armour Square.
My hope is that by the time a new stadium is constructed, they'll have won about 7-8 World Series with Kopech, Eloy, Moncada, Cease, Hansen, Machado, etc. at that point to where they're a marquis MLB attraction for fans and free agents alike, so by that point location won't matter as much
To be precise, NU has sold out seven times hosting the Badgers:
1997: 47,129
1995: 49,256
1964: 51,028
1959: 55,282
1951: 50,000
1949: 51,000
1930: 48,000
http://hailtopurple.com/cde/attendance_records.html
You are right. White Sox Park or whatever it is called today is easier to get in and out of and offers plenty at the park itself. But less to do in the neighborhood itself and that seems to be what people are looking for. Not sure exactly why when you are pretty worn out by the time you get to the park and go through a 3 plus hour game . You are already looking at 4-5 hrs.
It is better than Wrigley with any wind. Stands at Ryan actually block it but at Wrigley not so much
As otheres have said, they can tailgate at SOx Park and save a bunch of that. Around Wrigley they cannot
My response was piggybacking off another poster who claimed NU can’t sellout vs Wisconsin.
It’s hard to beat those two games in terms of enjoyment, though. My favorite sporting events to have attended in person (both of them trump the Bears NFC Championship game in 2007).
No, I was born on the south side, raised on the south side. Not one of those suburbs that call themselves the south side. Football games at Wrigley field are a novelty and spectacle for now and Wrigley is a classic destination not like the abomination where the Sox play.
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It is the 9th oldest stadium. Fenway (1912), Wrigley (1914), Dodger Stadium (1962), Oakland Coliseum (1966), Angel Stadium (1966), Kauffman Stadium (1973), Rogers Centre (1989), and Tropicana Field (1990) are older.
You could put Sox park in the back yard of most Sox fans and they still wouldn’t pay to see a Sox team play a game. The only time they show up is if the team is winning the division and even then it’s sporadic. For whatever reasons, the average Sox fan is cheap, cynical and a negative nelllie whose favorite past time is talking trash about the Cubs and Cubs fans rather than supporting their team. I am a Cubs fan who enjoys taking my two Sox fan sons to a Sox game any day of the week. Easy access, convenient parking, good food, affordable tickets. What more can you ask for? Reinsdorf or the new Sox owner should seriously consider moving the team to a new city. Sox fans don’t deserve the team.
I absolutely remember that ... one of the lowest points of the program, effectively selling a home conference game to the opponent. As I said, a strange thing to do.
Dumbest take of all time. Move a team from a major market, that is even if split in half, still bigger than just about any market in America? Do you know their stadium lease deal they have is the best in all American sports? Or that they drew 36,000 fans/game in 2006 even with a stadium located across the street from projects? I could name 1 billion reasons why the sox will never leave Chicago
You're a dad who brings his little kids to games. You're the exception, not the rule. You do realize the Cubs didn't draw shit for attendance until Wrigleyville turned into Wrigleyville, right? They drew a few thousand people a game until the late 70s because.... location. There was nothing on the North side back then.
You reek of "I'm an ignorant Cubs fan who doesn't know wtf I'm talking about"
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I forgot about Angel stadium. I knew the Trop and Rogers Centre opened about the same time and was going off the top of my head
That honor belongs to Boston fans. I actually root for the YankMes against them
