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Notes from my first trip to the "new" WRA

I go to about a dozen games a year. Most compliments of my buddy Uber and his ticket brokerage conglomerate for unused tickets. On Sunday, I was in Ubers own seat and after I returned home discovered I didn’t have my wallet. I cancelled my credit/debit cards and began the journey of tracing my steps.

There were about 4 potential numbers to call. As you can imagine, getting anyone to pick up the phone on a holiday week wasn’t easy. However, the old standby NU Police are 24 x 7 and they were great. Navigating me to the WR lost and found and eventually following up with them 2 days later ( after they opened) and calling me on NYE that they did in fact find the wallet.

WR opened for a Women’s game yesterday and they told me to get there before it ended. The student ticket taker knew I was going to be there and after asking me my name handed me my wallet in 30 seconds. Apparently, there was another sap who also lost his wallet. I have no idea who turned in the wallet to lost and found, fan, security, custodian, but it was returned and all $228 in it was still there. Very thankful for all the NU personnel involved. There are good people associated with this University.
A Christmas miracle!
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Maybe the bye in the playoffs isn't an advantage.

Boise and ASU getting 3 and 4 seeds in the bracket was silly. Conference champions shouldn’t have auto byes. Just play them as the committee seeded. Boise was 9. ASU, somewhere behind them. Both would have been on the road in round 1 had this happened.

While I do not think 12-16 teams have legit shots at the championship, I can see this thing being expanded to 14 or 16 very soon, just for the money it’s generating.

Notes from my first trip to the "new" WRA

It was a good crowd for a Christmas vacation out of area non conference game, Just suggesting that the lack of selections in different areas might have something to do with what they expected the crowd to be

Agree, was in town and took my sister and her kids to the game. Thought the tickets would be cheap, but the prices actually started rising post Christmas. Going to the game, my sister said she saw about 3 other families she knew from Glenview there.

Maybe we are becoming the North Shore’s Big Ten team.

All in all impressed with the new WRA, though the concession line was pretty long and had to watch us build the lead while in line.

Grimy

After that game I thought Brooks is the most likely Collins alum to replace him someday as head coach. Credit to Collins that his two most accomplished PGs, McIntosh and Buie, could vie for that honor.
True. I wonder if - at least in basketball - we could end up being a program that develops significant coaching talent. We have a few of the ingredients Brainy players, great coaches (CC coming into his own now for sure, and Lowery is a defensive savant), an identity that adjusts to the strengths of the players, and more recently gym rats who eat/breathe/sleeep basketball (something we never had in the past). Brooks will definitely be a coach someday - and I would think a very good one.

Thinking of NIL, the changing landscape of college football ... and Kain Colter

Dartmouth basketball players just gave up their effort to unionize because they think the National Labor Relations Board is about to turn hostile with the incoming president's appointees.
Given the National NLRB history and the likely nature of new appointees, they are probably making the right call.
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