How is this brutal?
That would be asking STHs to "wait and hope". That seems unrealistic and unreasonable. Also Wrigley sucks
Dr. Gragg is telling our upset season ticket to RELAX!
My hypothesis.
With people wondering what possible venues are, it’s easy to be a gumshoe.
Because 5 of the 7 home games are not settled and one of the two settled (Wrigley) is 💩
Sounds like a great opportunity to inflate the price of your tickets in the secondary market to the OSU fans.
At this point, it would not surprise me if...
Do you think they will blindfold us when we get on the buses?
Coincidentally, this is exactly the solution suggested by our son earlier this week. (He's a USC grad and I was welcoming him to the BIG.)
It's becoming laughable, but pathetic at the same time. I feel bad for the team and coaches.
Delay is expensive and has its own associated risks. Can’t assume that is a viable plan.
Again, somehow Kansas knows the exact dates that the Chiefs stadium will be available, and has announced these things (and the Chiefs play on natural grass, like the Bears).
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Sorry, but there is no reasonable excuse for the complete lack of planning. If there was planning and Gragg came across extreme obstacles then the Administration should know enough to be transparent with the process and avoid the appearance of utter incompetence.
And how can he know Lambeau is available but not SoldierAgain, somehow Kansas knows the exact dates that the Chiefs stadium will be available, and has announced these things (and the Chiefs play on natural grass, like the Bears).
But Soldier Field’s availability is a total mystery to NU. Kevin Warren has no idea and no willingness to share? Just crazy.
Kansas Football Unveils Complete 2024 Schedule - University of Kansas
The Jayhawks enter the 2024 season following the program’s first bowl win since 2008, defeating UNLV in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl on Dec. 26, 2023. The bowl victory
It is absurd that the NU athletic department pretends that there’s simply no way to have knowledge of the Bears schedule.
The above was posted in January, weeks before Gragg went with his “derrrr, we don’t know where we’ll play” email, and three weeks before Lambeau was floated.
Just no foresight.
I don't know, but my guess is that Lambeau (and perhaps Arrowhead) don't have the same restrictions that Soldier Field has in terms of playing games on back-to-back days.
The Chiefs don’t share their stadium with other teams, and don’t have the park district imposing stupid rules on how long the turf has to recover before another game is played there. The bears should know which games are at home and which aren’t. But even if they do, the one week rule could easily screw things up massively. The bears have to be on the road presumably for two straight weeks AND the Fire have to not have a Saturday game. They have multiple Saturday games in Sept and Oct, which are the months NU needs (Wrigley in Nov).
They know the dates. Other stadiums don’t share their stadiums with other teams and don’t have park districts with stupid rules about the turf. The bears don’t control these rules and don’t own their own stadium.
Somehow when Illinois went through the phase of playing their NU @IL games at Soldier Field they managed to secure Soldier Field dates ahead of time...
Don’t worry. NU has a staffer on hold with the Bears ticket office right now trying to get those home dates. Maybe today is the day!
Sure there are differences. But what we can be sure of is that nobody at NU even considered this before bulldozers were on the ground.
