Athletic Facilities across the Nation

[Clonefan94]

How many billions of dollars worth of real estate do we thing Northwestern is sitting on? 10? 20?

Same with Loyola in Rogers Park.

Loyola keeps buying up more too. My daughter goes there, 2 years ago they bought a high rise apartment building near campus, they are going to turn into dorms. It's not a very big school, but they are sorely hurting for dorm space. They tore down the dorm she was in Freshman year to to add more space for their nursing school. They have a satellite campus on Michigan Ave., but I'm not sure if they own that land.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Loyola keeps buying up more too. My daughter goes there, 2 years ago they bought a high rise apartment building near campus, they are going to turn into dorms. It's not a very big school, but they are sorely hurting for dorm space. They tore down the dorm she was in Freshman year to to add more space for their nursing school. They have a satellite campus on Michigan Ave., but I'm not sure if they own that land.

I've only been there once briefly for a basketball game but even in February that campus is stunning.

 

[FinalFourCy]

Loyola keeps buying up more too. My daughter goes there, 2 years ago they bought a high rise apartment building near campus, they are going to turn into dorms. It's not a very big school, but they are sorely hurting for dorm space. They tore down the dorm she was in Freshman year to to add more space for their nursing school. They have a satellite campus on Michigan Ave., but I'm not sure if they own that land.

They’ve owned the Water Tower Campus for over 100 years.

Northwestern’s downtown spot (not the med school), right on the lake, may be worth more if just talking prime real estate

 

[BigJCy]

How the Northwestern Stadium is coming along. SUPPOSE to be ready by next season.

 

[clone4sure]

LSU will fire and hire a new FB Coach. the taxpayers of Louisianna will cover the cost. I'm wondering how they can do this? the AD won't be able to hire the new coach and they will use an outside firm to do this. Geesh!!

 

[BigJCy]

 

[Cyclone06]

Reduce capacity by 36% to provide more premium opportunities? I'm guessing the players will love that. Some day, they games will be played and only attended by 100 or so mega wealthy while the poor sits at home and watches on TV. That will be a great environment for the players, who wont be able to complain because they are now also on the take.

 

[crs8975]

Reduce capacity by 36% to provide more premium opportunities? I'm guessing the players will love that. Some day, they games will be played and only attended by 100 or so mega wealthy while the poor sits at home and watches on TV. That will be a great environment for the players, who wont be able to complain because they are now also on the take.

Not sure if you've watched Rice recently but they seriously only get a few thousand a game as is.

 

[CycloneDaddy]

Please JP rip out the bleachers and put in stadium seats.

 

[Drew0311]

LSU will fire and hire a new FB Coach. the taxpayers of Louisianna will cover the cost. I'm wondering how they can do this? the AD won't be able to hire the new coach and they will use an outside firm to do this. Geesh!!

Plus a new AD who had nothing to do with it will have to figure it out. Since the old AD is the same guy that hired Jimbo Fisher. I think they said that AD is responsible for 125 million dollars in owed wages from the guys he hired and the contracts they signed. Unreal.

 

[Cyhig]

Reduce capacity by 36% to provide more premium opportunities? I'm guessing the players will love that. Some day, they games will be played and only attended by 100 or so mega wealthy while the poor sits at home and watches on TV. That will be a great environment for the players, who wont be able to complain because they are now also on the take.

The attendance for the Houston - Rice game this year was 30,116. So 30K will still be more than enough seating capacity.

Edit: Rice's other home games this year have been 20K to 22K

 

[Drew0311]

Please JP rip out the bleachers and put in stadium seats.

Isn't the only place they have bleachers in the band area and they stand the whole game. I could be wrong. You thinking just aesthetics?

 

[Derek Duke]

Rice's Stadium was always way too big. I have been there a time or two for a game years ago and it was way outdated even then. As crazy as it sounds that stadium actually hosted Super Bowl VII back in the 70's when the Dolphins beat the Vikings.

 

[DSMCy]

Isn't the only place they have bleachers in the band area and they stand the whole game. I could be wrong. You thinking just aesthetics?

Think he means the flat bleacher seats that are in the entire stadium
Would be incredible to rip those out and replace with actual seats, like in the Sukup End Zone

 

[CHim]

Reduce capacity by 36% to provide more premium opportunities? I'm guessing the players will love that. Some day, they games will be played and only attended by 100 or so mega wealthy while the poor sits at home and watches on TV. That will be a great environment for the players, who wont be able to complain because they are now also on the take.

Except now ESPN won't even let the poor watch the game without paying more.

 

[harimad]

Please JP rip out the bleachers and put in stadium seats.

By how much would that reduce capacity? My guess is A LOT.

 

[CycloneT]

By how much would that reduce capacity? My guess is A LOT.

probably 2-3 seats a row per section

 

[1UNI2ISU]

probably 2-3 seats a row per section

Way more than that because as soon as you touch anything, you have to widen aisles and get to full ADA compliance in the untouched structure (East and West Grandstands)

I'd bet you'd lose 8000-10,000 seats minimum.

 

[deadeyededric]

How the Northwestern Stadium is coming along. SUPPOSE to be ready by next season.

That football facility they built by Lake Michigan is insane. Gotta think their alumni base base deep pockets. I actually think they should have just did a massive renovation of their old stadium. Just by the way it's built they could have done some cool things with it. That stadium had to have been one of the premier stadium in the nation when it was built.

 

[BigJCy]

How the Northwestern Stadium is coming along. SUPPOSE to be ready by next season.