While we're talking about McGaw Hall, does anyone know if there was any serious consideration for switching Welsh II back to a north-south configuration, rather than the east-west direction of the floor? Just curious.
The new W-R facility is beautiful, amazing!
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We used to draw enormous crowds for football too in that era and not stands filled with opponent fans either.
But that was an era when not every game was on TV and when we were more regional as a university, both in student body and alumni. Now our alumni are spread everywhere.
Only private school with a following of non alum fans is ND and they built that fan base in the 1910s and 1920s. We effectively killed our nonalum fan base when we refused to renew Ara’s Contract.
Does anyone know when the last remnants of the dirt floor were covered over? I seem to remember a graduation there in 1988 and the place was dark and dingy. Maybe still with dirt floors around the outside?
I don't remember any dirt portions remaining after the 1982-83 transformation from McGaw Hall into W-R 1.0. But I could be wrong...
Hey, T_Levine, ParisCat sent me a picture of you and several other class of '88 Willard-ites from last week's game. Sorry I missed you.
I like the library, though I know I'm in the minority. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome from four years of work study there. But it's a weird, distinctive design that you'll (hopefully) never see replicated anywhere else.
But they should have detonated Norris yesterday.
McGaw always has had the east-west configuration. If it were moved to north-south, we would have fewer seats on the sides between the end lines and more seats in the “end zones”.
The dirt floors were gone after the 1982-83 renovation (my senior year!). Prior to that, McGaw was the only college basketball fieldhouse where the fans had to shower after the game just like the players did.
The lowest sections of seats are folded in. They will fold back out and completely encircle the court and it will look even more awesome.
I think for the pre-game introductions, we should turn off the lights and play the Bulls intro music. Feed some crowd noise through the loudspeakers to just get the energy going. The reference to the Bulls will underscore that we are truly Chicago's B1G Team.
Really well done. All of a sudden our facilities are becoming world class...
Ryan Field next!
only part time. the women's program is also in there and volleyball as well. its more like 5-6 days for the men's team.
Anyone have anything more on the facility? Pictures? How did the players react? Comments from those who have seen it?
How about practice? Who is looking like they are going to bust out this season? Are we going to the NCAA's?
Thanks
