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Jens1893 said:
Northwestern has the serious intention to play the majority of its games in 2024 (all but Ohio State and Illinois, which will be at Wrigley) and 2025 in this "stadium"?
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Only private schools without a big following like NW, Vandy, Wake or Stanford could pull this off

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Inside Northwestern's plan for a 15,000-seat home stadium in the heart of the Big Ten

Still scrambling for a field this spring, the school came up with a unique solution perhaps only it could pull off.
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CarolinaBuff said:
Only private schools without a big following like NW, Vandy, Wake or Stanford could pull this off

www.espn.com

Inside Northwestern's plan for a 15,000-seat home stadium in the heart of the Big Ten

Still scrambling for a field this spring, the school came up with a unique solution perhaps only it could pull off.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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Spending 800m USD on a 35k stadium also seems somewhat ... excessive?

Now, there's nothing wrong with doing things right when you do them and inflation is a thing but when I look at what other stadium got built for in recent years that does seem very over the top and suggests they're getting all the bells and whistles in the book.
 
Buffnik said:
All those rivalry games with in-state SEC programs + Notre Dame games on top of a 9-game conference schedule does equal ACC teams playing very strong non-conference slates. Yay?
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A couple of those in-state games are against lower-tier SEC competition, South Carolina and 2 games against Florida. But yea, 5 games against ND plus a number of others against top SEC top teams - Tennessee, Ole Miss, 2 games against Georgia, Missouri and Kentucky.

Still an odd thing to have a banner for
 
Does that banner imply that they play harder teams out of conference than in conference.

Might be the worst self own in organized conference sports history
 
Going to be curious about the FCS and D2 scholarship allocations for football.
 
This might hurt the service academies the most since they didn't have athletic scholarships but had pretty much unlimited rosters.
 
Buffnik said:
This might hurt the service academies the most since they didn't have athletic scholarships but had pretty much unlimited rosters.
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The G5 can isolate itself and set its own salary caps and its own championships. I think the split between the levels will need to be more uneven and severe.

The CFP really does not ultimately want a lower level team in it long term, and to get better ratings and TV deals, there will be only P3 games from now on.

The train is rolling
 
married2abuff said:
Roster sizes of 105 is going to increase the gap between the haves and the have nots. Terrible idea.
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In nil world, not so much.

Basically, right now you can have 85 players that the school covers tuition, room, and board, plus an *unlimited* number of players that your nil collective covers tuition, room, and board.

This proposal caps that. You can have 105 players, full stop. The school can cover tuition, room, and board for those 105. And the nil collective can pay those 105 too, but they can't pay another 30 players on top of that 105 like they can (and do) now.


Yes, it will hurt some schools' budgets, but they will at least have a shot at some players that would have otherwise gone to the big programs with a "walk on" nil scholarship.
 
CarolinaBuff said:
TIL that UCLA is in LA
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CUAviator said:
The **** was that?
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He either didn't know he was going up there or he wasn't prepared at all and has zero improv ability.

Regardless, all he had to do was say, "DeShaun Foster, HC at UCLA. We're excited to be joining the best conference in the country and look forward to meeting all these great programs on the field. Questions?"
 
Buffnik said:
This might hurt the service academies the most since they didn't have athletic scholarships but had pretty much unlimited rosters.
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They are pulling form a very different/limited bucket of players/athletes. They dont offer athletic scholarships because everyone at the academies are there without education expenses. If they are capping rosters at 105 and allowing them all to be on scholarship this could actually help the academies as most of their players likely would be in one of those 105-120 roster spots at bigger schools.
 
josef said:
They are pulling form a very different/limited bucket of players/athletes. They dont offer athletic scholarships because everyone at the academies are there without education expenses. If they are capping rosters at 105 and allowing them all to be on scholarship this could actually help the academies as most of their players likely would be in one of those 105-120 roster spots at bigger schools.
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Yes. But their own rosters for practices will be limited to 105. Not sure if this impacts the service academy feeder setup where they stash a bunch of guys in a prep/jv situation and build their academy rosters out of those guys. If that gets compromised while being unable to offer NIL, they're screwed and will maybe have to drop to FCS like the Ivy League did years ago.
 
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