Currently in a packed Rizzo's, I'm the only purple lol.
Bernie's looked same.
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Bernie's looked same.
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Oh yeah. It’s gonna probably be 90/10 red/purple. That’s why ticket prices were so high.
What an inspired choice for homecoming by our brilliant administration
It's literally the most lopsided showing I've ever seen at any game. I was counting over 100 OSU fans for every one of us. It's miserable in here.
Bang up job by our alumni relations and admin.
I’m not even mad at the fans this time. This was never not going to be pretty bad. What a stupid decision.
Wasn’t much choice at the time given uncertainty of earlier-season games… though that was obviously also self-inflicted.
They could have held this game at Soldier Field. That was the only reasonable alternative to Wrigley.
OSU would have made more money for the B1G that way. 🤷♂️
Just like the 1989 game in Cleveland: NU could have gotten more cash for hosting a Buckeye homecoming in Chicago. 😂
The alternative was to do this at lakeside, except we hadn’t planned for that when this was scheduled. I’m also not sure if the economics would have worked to do this lakeside if Wrigley was available. But I thought when we were trying to figure out what to do for this season we basically couldn’t make Soldier Field work because of requirements for the Bears.
I know the team is bad and they were not going to compete with the Buckeyes, but an 80/20 “home” game is embarrassing. And yes, our fans deserve some of the blame. Bad look for the many recruits we had there. “Welcome! We have no support!”
My class had an event in Evanston that began at the same time as tipoff. My wife had to ask the bartender to change the TV to the NU hoops game. There were no more than 10 people out of 500 watching the game as it went into OT. Totally on brand.
Those ba$ards come at you in waves. Like locust, they're all over the place. But in fairness, the do have the largest fan base - by far. See attachment
New study reveals biggest fan bases in college football
Your look at which college football teams have the biggest fan bases.
Horrible stadium for football. Dumb from the start to play games there. Not worth it no matter how good or bad the NU team might be.
Wrigley looked pretty good on TV. Not ideal, obviously, but it has been improved each year.
I saw the final. Looked at the box score. Didn’t watch the game. Knew Leach scored a bunch and made a bunch of free throws. Perhaps took a brief glance at the basketball board last night.
And only now do I notice it went into OT. Wowzers. Go cats Go! Thanks for sharing.
Why wouldn't they? A weekend in a universally beloved city for football at a universally beloved baseball stadium, and in any given season a solid chance at a win. And then deep dish pizza afterwards! OBVIOUS appeal to VISITORS.
I totally get why we play games here. It would be nice if a slightly higher ratio of our fans felt more ownership and responsibility to the team.
Our fans are just as fickle as they come. I’ve accepted it as who we are. We will likely not get many casual fans unless we have a 1995/1996 style season. We got some in 2018 and probably would have in 2020 sans COVID but it is what it is. We are a small but mighty fan base. Look at what that’s done in hoops. Harder to carryover in football.
Never understood this point. USF and the Bucs both play at Raymond James with home games the same weekend. Why can’t the Bears / Soldier Field?
Because Soldier Field is technically owned by the Chicago Park District and they have very strict rules around field use.
NU busy counting their money today. Who needs true nu when you have 40,000 buck nut fans at wrigley.
