[NU Sports] Big Ten Bowl Game at YANKEE STADIUM? 'CATS at YANKEE

[johnadeg at comcast.net]

I don't know either why anyone would be down on Phillips he has been pretty innovative so far,i.e. giving free tickets to eighth graders with A-B averages and I found the new football media guide to be terrific, lot of good stuff in it. The guy knows how to market.

John DeGroat
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From: NEONRye at aol.com
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Sent: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 18:54:24 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Big Ten Bowl Game at YANKEE STADIUM? 'CATS at YANKEE

May all plans to play an NU home game in Yankee Stadium go up in  flames.  
A) 
I have no admiration for Yankee Stadium, old or new; B)  Don't tear up 
baseball fields playing football on them; C) We're  NorthWESTern, not 
NorthEASTern.  Let them play there or maybe  Rutgers-Connecticut. 
 
 
Considering that our retiring President, Mr. Bienen, is originally from  
this area, and that our incoming President, Mr. Shapiro, is currently from up  
the road a bit (Massachusetts), they might well disagree with your  
statement.
 
I don't know why people on this list are so negative about Jim Phillips  
trying to boost the program's visibility by playing in famous baseball 
stadiums  (stadia?), unless we lose true "home" games (at Ryan) as a consequence.  
If  we can make NU football a recognized "brand" by doing this, and provided 
that  the Administration and the Athletic Dept. continue to adhere to the 
principles  that have made our program a standard-bearer for doing things the 
right way, how  can that be a 'bad" thing?  
 
Paul Levinson
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