I talked to three-star DE Yvan Kemajou about his official visit to Northwestern last weekend.

With all the excitement around football games on campus -- on the lakefill, no less -- it would be great for Northwestern to adjust its rebuilding plans for the new stadium. The campus and downtown Evanston have plenty of parking on weekends and during the summer for games and concerts, as opposed to the current Ryan Field location. Plus, it would put an end to the ongoing conflict with neighborhoods surrounding Ryan Field. Imagine how downtown Evanston restaurants and bars would benefit from all the pre- and post-game visitors. Plus, the current Ryan Field location could be repurposed into practice and competition fields for other non-revenue sports.

Contribution required for most seats. Lots of seating and tailgating options.

Thoughts?

Just saw this statement in today's article about the Temporary Stadium:

"There will be beer gardens and television screens, so that fans and students who don’t have tickets will still want to come and watch the game just to be part of the event."

Maybe they haven't gone all the way yet with my suggestion to set up a huge tailgate with in game screened games on Deering Meadow, but doing so on the Lakefront is a good start.

Another recruit headed our way?

(He walked away pouting when I wouldn't come out and play basketball with him.)

Starts at ~23:00. We got us a good one, fellas.

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I haven’t seen anyone post so I thought I’d share.

First I will share that my new tix rep did not seem excited on the call this week. I was shocked. He said he came to the job last year because he was told the stadium was supposed to start last year and be complete for fall 2025 now it’s 2026. He had experience in LA with the Chargers and new stadium with “contributions.”

2. Tix at Wrigley will be sold by the cubs directly. Season tix holders will have first access but you will be able to buy actual seats not just request a section. This is a change from previous years.

3. The Ryans are driving the bus for how tix will be priced in the new stadium. I asked my rep to repeat himself twice.

The Ryan’s donated 700m to the new stadium and the athletic department will work with them to decide on tix price. Contribution costs etc.

I was shocked but maybe we shouldn’t be. The Ryan’s run Northwestern.

I talked to Jesse Marks of the NU Athletic Department to get an in-depth look at NU's new temporary lakefront stadium.

I know Lou V's last post about this suggested that we may done with the transfer portal, but it feels like we need another contributor (particularly a guard or wing) to round out the roster and solidify our depth. It'd be surprising and disappointing if we're really not pursuing another transfer, but I haven't seen us connected to anybody recently. Any chatter out there about a final transfer candidate?

Good news: we’ve got a solid group of veterans returning in 2024.

Bad news: 2025 is gonna be rough

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I know it is questionable if it means much but what is the process

Dube Enongene plans to announce his commitment to Northwestern on Saturday night.

Nothing new, but I suppose this is “official word” that Ohio State and Illinois are at Wrigley.

I haven’t followed this lawsuit closely, but it sure looks like it’s about to be another very large and fundamental tap change to the current order of affairs in college football

@lou v has the story on Cooper Lovelace, the enthusiastic transfer from USC with a long career in college football and close family ties to Northwestern.

…not THREE, but I’m hearing Northwestern got FOUR commits today!

I PREDICT that Dube Enongene is one of them.

That’s all I got so far. Stay tuned. What a weekend!

Starts at ~23:00. We got us a really good one, fellas.

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It’s official…

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G5 move to spring football

An interesting proposal. G5 considering moving to play spring football instead of competing with P4 for television audience. Actually not a bad idea but would it create a situation where their best players would then try to switch to P4 schools in the fall?

Cats at 5.5

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The transfer portal has closed and UNL has 98 scholarship players. They will pay the tuition for 13 players through NIL so they technically count as walk-ons. Seems like huge advantage.

Here is the WildcatReport official tracker for Northwestern's transfers in and out in the 2023-24 transfer portal windows.

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Some terrific information here. Interesting to see how we compete with our peers.

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Our recruits are 128 and 143