[NU Sports] Attendance

[CHerron604 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/19/2007 3:31:51 PM Central Standard Time,  
rstetson at capps-assoc.com writes:

Philly  and New York don't have Div I teams


What about Temple ?  Oops, maybe Roy is right...
 
Everyone in northern Illinois receives their Bear fandom (as well as their  
toddler-sized Urlacher jerseys) at birth, we can never hope to match that level 
 of passion.
 
I will echo some earlier comments about horrible concessions, easily the  
11th best in the league.
 
Traffic is an endless nightmare - McCormick Blvd has been torn up for a  long 
time, the Edens Expressway is (and will be) torn up for a long time, the  
Tri-State Tollway has been torn up for a long time (ironically, to put in  
high-speed oper road toll stations).  
 
As someone who has been to a lot of our games at Michigan, I marvel at how  
easily they can park and seat 106,000 people, and how hard it is for us to park 
 and seat 42,000.  And leaving the Michigan parking lots is almost always a  
good experience (including the many streets converted to one-way traffic  
only).
 
Another factor might be our visibility - I like hearing what PF has to say,  
but I generally only hear him for a few minutes before the game with Dave 
Eanet,  and a few minutes after the game with Ted Albrecht.  Ron Zook, on the 
other  hand, seems to be everywhere on Chicago sports talk radio, once or twice a  
week.  And he was talking to those stations during the lean years, as well  
as now.  He is definitely (as his recruiting would indicate) a great  salesman 
for Illinois.
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85 



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