[NU Sports] 4th Quarter

[Roy Lamberton]

I doubt that NU would be able to expand the campus into the lake again - under
today's "green" rules, I'm surprised there isn't a movement to dig the lakefront
out and return it to its original shore.....

Anyway, there's probably still land out there where a new 50k stadium could be
built - parking would be a big issue since there's no train or el service there
but the land Ryan occupies is probably worth many millions.

I'd hate to see NU's other facilities go, and I'd really hate to contemplate the
top deck seats in a new place that overlooked the lake, talk about swirling
winds.

There's nothing wrong with Ryan-Dyche that 40,000 fans every week wouldn't cure.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Dennis W. Brandt
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:29 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] 4th Quarter
> 
> <Neither does it help that the eletists at and from NU who live in the
> Chicago area don't care enough  to attend <football and/or basketball
> games.
> How else can the low attendance e explained?
> 
> Attendance will rise when winning becomes routine, not just an occasional
> bright spot in the darkness of defeat.  To do that, you need talent.
> 
> There are also issues with facilities, including parking.  Someone asked
> where we could build a new stadium.  My freshman year McCullough Hall was
> on
> the shore of Lake Michigan.  By the end of that year, it wasn't on the
> shore
> anymore.  Not long after I graduated, a substantial piece of the campus
> grew
> where once there was only water.  There is no problem in this area that
> mere
> money can't correct.  As we saw with the recent fund-raising campaign, NU
> alums fork over.  As they say in the business department, you can't make
> money if you don't spend money.  Barnett upgraded facilities.  Now it's
> time
> to take the next step up.
> 
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