[NU Sports] NU Attendance et al (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> And to tie it in with attendance, I'll add "indifference to sports" as 
> another pastime. For better or worse, students don't choose NU for the 
> football team. Even during the Rose/Citrus Bowl years, the success was 
> just treated as a perq, not a reason for being. Not sure how that could 
> change, barring some extra question on the undergraduate application 
> gauging interest in spectator sports, which I would be against. Oops, 
> there I go being a "snob" again.

I suspect that the percentage of the undergraduate student body in attendance at 
Northwestern games may be higher than at Nebraska.  

But part of the problem is that something like 90% of Nebraska grads are likely to 
be living within driving distance of Lincoln, but maybe 20% of Northwestern grads
are living within driving distance of Evanston.  

I think it's fantastic that we have a number of people on this list who travel great
distances to NU games each year, but driving 10 hours EACH WAY got to be too much of a 
hassle for us, especially if we can't leave until after work on Friday and there's an 
11AM kickoff on Saturday.  (Flying is not much better time-wise due to airline schedules 
and much more expensive.)  
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Mike Nolan