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Northwestern Wildcats (Official Thread)

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ScriptOhio said:
Proposed design highlights include:
  • A more intimate setting: Significantly smaller crowds — designed for a maximum capacity of 35,000, more than 12,000 fewer than the current Ryan Field, with a state-of-the-art canopy designed to focus noise and light on the field;
Entire article: https://news.northwestern.edu/stori...y-design-concepts-for-dynamic-new-ryan-field/
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
No way they fill it, but at least they're trying.
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I think they'll fill it pretty easily, most games. According to the internet (http://hailtopurple.com/cde/attendance_annual.html), they've averaged 33,000+ a game every year since 2010, with the exceptions of 2020 (COVID) and 2021, which it thinks is lingering effects of COVID. And that's with most of the fans in bleachers. The difference in the stadiums looks like it will be similar to the difference between going to a Buckeye football game and going to a Buckeye basketball game at the Schottenstein Center. I enjoy football way more than I do basketball, but the seats at the Schottenstein Center are way more comfortable than the bleachers in Ohio Stadium. And I think that will be what they're trying to do at Northwestern.

That said, only 35,000 to a Big Ten home game? And you can never let more in? Seems pretty lame for a Big Ten team.
 
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Gotta wonder if Fitz is running out of juice. They're 1-4 now and look pretty damn bad, so I'm guessing 3-9 is their ceiling. If that's how it goes, that'll be three 3-9 seasons in 4 years with the one outlier being the wonky 2020 COVID year. He's now 14-24 since 2018.
 
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pnuts34 said:
I think Northwestern knows that they got a HC who wants to be there, and they can’t do better. Fitz is probably good for a long while, especially since he was just in the B1G title game a few years ago.
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You're right, they probably can't do any better than Fitzgerald; however, no coach at Northwestern is going to be able to compete "with the big boys" without a viable NIL collective/program. The gap between the "haves" (lots of NIL money) and the "have nots" (no formal NIL program) will only get wider.

Northwestern's reaction as only Big Ten school without NIL collective

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Before the latest installment of Big Ten Media Days, and with the second college football season of the NCAA’s NIL era approaching, if you searched “Northwestern collective” on Twitter, results for an IPA (Kings County Brewers Collective’s Spaghetti Northwestern) and student groups at the university, such as a labor union for graduate workers and a multicultural theater board. However, you would’ve found little discussion regarding the prospect of an NIL collective at the school.

Of the Big Ten’s 14 current member institutions, Northwestern is the only one whose fan base hasn’t publicly announced the creation of a collective. NIL collectives are an umbrella term for third-party organizations or marketing agencies that help pool funds from fans and/or businesses to create NIL opportunities for athletes at a specific university.

The other 13 Big Ten schools combine for at least 23 collectives, school-specific marketing agencies or player-driven membership-based communities. Soon-to-be Big Ten members USC and UCLA are each supported by at least one of those entities, too.

Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald immediately turned to humor when On3 asked if he’s aware of any plans for a collective to support the Wildcats, and if not, whether the lack of one concerns him.

“Yeah, Andy, private school. We don’t have to tell you,” Fitzgerald said in a tongue-in-cheek comment that drew laughter last week at Big Ten Football Media Days. “No, I’m just joking.”

Entire article: https://www.on3.com/nil/news/northw...otball-nil-collective-pat-fitzgerald-chicago/

If Northwestern does get a player that develops into an All American and I'll speculate that if some other school offers big NIL money he won't likely stay there. There is undoubtedly a relationship between these two events ↓:

Notre Dame football gets its own NIL Collective, the FUND Foundation

Notre Dame adds Northwestern transfer, All-American safety Brandon Joseph to suddenly deep secondary
 
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