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<blockquote data-quote="WINTer" data-source="post: 1581746" data-attributes="member: 747671"><p>You may be right about Wrigley. I know they moved more seats closer, but I thought they may have made some section reconfigurable to fit football games, concerts, etc better. I think there's some neutral site games that can work, maybe more so occasionally than regularly. Maybe it was just being so close to the Wrigley game, but that atmosphere topped anything I've seen Thanksgiving weekend in Champaign or Evanston. I think the Illinois/Chicago/Northwestern dynamic is just so different than pretty much anything out there. Normally a school as close to Chicago as Northwestern would have a huge advantage, but it's a small private school with a smaller following and Chicago is a giant pro city with good splits pretty much among all the large midwest school fanbases. So many students are going to be much closer to Chicago that weekend than to Champaign. I don't know. I just think it would really work. But you did hit on a big part. I think it only really makes sense if Northwestern is on board as well. It makes no sense to alternate Chicago/Evanston. Go all in on Chicago and alternate Wrigley/Soldier.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="WINTer, post: 1581746, member: 747671"] You may be right about Wrigley. I know they moved more seats closer, but I thought they may have made some section reconfigurable to fit football games, concerts, etc better. I think there's some neutral site games that can work, maybe more so occasionally than regularly. Maybe it was just being so close to the Wrigley game, but that atmosphere topped anything I've seen Thanksgiving weekend in Champaign or Evanston. I think the Illinois/Chicago/Northwestern dynamic is just so different than pretty much anything out there. Normally a school as close to Chicago as Northwestern would have a huge advantage, but it's a small private school with a smaller following and Chicago is a giant pro city with good splits pretty much among all the large midwest school fanbases. So many students are going to be much closer to Chicago that weekend than to Champaign. I don't know. I just think it would really work. But you did hit on a big part. I think it only really makes sense if Northwestern is on board as well. It makes no sense to alternate Chicago/Evanston. Go all in on Chicago and alternate Wrigley/Soldier. [/QUOTE]

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