About the opposing fans thing - I love it when opposing fans come in and rock the stadium along with ours. The two most exciting games I have seen NU play (not in person) were the famous Michigan vs NU game and the win over OSU. Full House, 50k, sure a ton of OSU fans, but the place was rockin! I'm worried that a 30,000 stadium will be too filled with older fans and too polite. I prefer a sense that tear gas could need to be deployed at any minute to keep the fans separated. I am afraid we will have 10-15,000 senior citizens there (out of 30,000) and it will be known as "the smallest and most quiet and boring stadium in all of sports". If anything i would encourage opposing fans to come. And as I have said before, you can't call yourself "Chicago's Big Ten Team" and have a stadium that small for football, it's ridiculous and a decade of marketing will go down the toilet.
Finally since we see NIL money now, shouldn't we be doing everything we can to get every extra dollar from every possible fan (even opposing)? I don't mean to be in your face with anybody but I still think many folks don't realize that this is a new world. I don't run this site, I love it, I subscribe, thanks Lou and everyone who works hard to make it happen! That said, there was a post on the Rock about a new commit and I asked, quite sincerely, any info on what NIL we are looking at for him? And it was deleted, as though it were a crass question. As thought I were asking about some kind of recruiting violation.
Well, it is not considered something "taboo" on other sites and in other news outlets for other teams.
https://www.profootballnetwork.com/top-10-nil-deals-in-2022/
Quinn Ewers's latest million-dollar NIL deal has the 19-year-old nearing $4 million dollars in compensation.
news.yahoo.com
Anyone can find 100 more articles like this.
Point is, instead of "going small", if we want to keep playing in the Big Ten, now is the time to "build big". I cannot fathom how we will keep up with the NIL reality with a 30,000 stadium. Sorry, don't see it.
About seating license fees, these are normal but not for all the seats. Take LSU for example, you want. Two foundations get the money (one seems to be somewhat quasi-independent - like the NU Gridiron Network?) and again, I can post more links to more schools, but if you want to have a lakeside facility, new stadium and a five million dollar a year head coach (and especially if you cut the stadiium down by 40 percent) be prepared for huge license fees.
www.lsutaf.org
lsusports.net
