Northwestern game (Nov. 26th)

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Battle89

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redwingillini11 said:
That's true. But maybe if the teams agree to split ticket and concessions revenue every year maybe that's a better deal than what they will be making at their new shoebox once every other year.
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I think @IlliniInBuckeyeState may have a point. Arlington is a no-brainer for us but not so for NW. Not sure 50% of whatever they'd get at Arlington would cover 100% of what they would get at home, even a smaller home. And 50% of what - I'm sure the Bears / Arlington Heights / TIF District / whoever take some off the top.

And there would be a need to justify the investment in that new NW home also, by holding the games there.

How do the skyboxes work? If NW is the home team, do the Ryan Field skybox owners automatically get an allocation of boxes at Arlington? I wouldn't think so but admittedly don't know. Small % of fans but big $$$ impact. After all, those are the main reason for all these stadium renovations.
 
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Battle89 said:
I think @IlliniInBuckeyeState may have a point. Arlington is a no-brainer for us but not so for NW. Not sure 50% of whatever they'd get at Arlington would cover 100% of what they would get at home, even a smaller home. And 50% of what - I'm sure the Bears / Arlington Heights / TIF District / whoever take some off the top.

And there would be a need to justify the investment in that new NW home also, by holding the games there.

How do the skyboxes work? If NW is the home team, do the Ryan Field skybox owners automatically get an allocation of boxes at Arlington? I wouldn't think so but admittedly don't know. Small % of fans but big $$$ impact. After all, those are the main reason for all these stadium renovations.
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I think we could make a decent pitch to Northwestern, as they would be getting a disproportionate amount of revenue from Illinois fans that would be more likely to pack Arlington Heights than go to Evanston. NU will still have 6-7 other home games every year, and they would need to be reasonably confident that their new stadium would sell enough tickets for this Thanksgiving Weekend game (the attendance for our games in Evanston is just as bad if not worse...) that it would outweigh the benefit of getting half of the revenue from a game where the crowd might be 75% for the other team! Add on the potential national exposure and MUCH needed "juice" it would add to this relatively manufactured rivalry, and I'm optimistic they could be convinced.

IlliniInBuckeyeState said:
Arlington Heights may also make a push for the IHSA State Championships - who knows. It will obviously be way bigger than needed, but several other states with pro indoor stadiums already do this.
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You might be right, but I just find this insane. It should be in Champaign every year, IMO. High school state championships should take driving distance for the kids into consideration, not just where the main population already is. Besides, Chicagoland kids have developed a certain affection for "going Downstate" for state championships over the years, IMO.

A kid from the Metro East - an area of Illinois with about 700k in population! - would have a 5-hour, traffic-filled drive just for a state tournament?? I went less than 2 hours for mine. This doesn't even consider the poor kids from places south of Carbondale who'd have a 6+ hour drive!
 
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The big ten will still play 9 conference games and most likely get rid of divisions. If we both agreed to be the other Friday game and play at night, which would not be practical by anyone else. They could put us on alternate 4 and 5 home game years.
 
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^ Nice! NU isn't down and out just yet, and even though the weather no-doubt played a huge role ... they were hanging with an OSU team that had smoked pretty much everyone else they played. We can't (and won't!) take NU lightly, and it would be extremely helpful to have a huge group of Illini fans there to further motivate the team!
 
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IlliniInBuckeyeState said:
Arlington Heights may also make a push for the IHSA State Championships - who knows. It will obviously be way bigger than needed, but several other states with pro indoor stadiums already do this.
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Indiana and Michigan are outliers as Indy and Detroit are the only real option for a location for playing the high school state football championships in those states that time of years. Same with the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls for Iowa.

Missouri has had theirs at Faurot Field for awhile now. Kentucky has theirs at Kroger Field in Lexington. Wisconsin has theirs at Camp Randall.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

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IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:
Indiana and Michigan are outliers as Indy and Detroit are the only real option for a location for playing the high school state football championships in those states that time of years. Same with the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls for Iowa.

Missouri has had theirs at Faurot Field for awhile now. Kentucky has theirs at Kroger Field in Lexington. Wisconsin has theirs at Camp Randall.
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I said this earlier in the thread, but it just really seems like it should almost always be in a central location. The jaunt up to Arlington Heights for kids in Southern Illinois is so inconvenient and impractical that it should outweigh "where the population is located" or whatever. Besides, at least from my experience, kids think it's cool to go on a roadtrip of at least an hour to "State."

It should really be in Champaign each year for football and basketball. The last one pains me as a Peorian, but I think Peoria should definitely get baseball at the Chiefs ballpark.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman said:
I said this earlier in the thread, but it just really seems like it should almost always be in a central location. The jaunt up to Arlington Heights for kids in Southern Illinois is so inconvenient and impractical that it should outweigh "where the population is located" or whatever. Besides, at least from my experience, kids think it's cool to go on a roadtrip of at least an hour to "State."
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Even though the IHSA would never do it (mostly because of the logistical issues related to TV production), it wouldn't be the worst idea to at least do 7A and 8A for football in Arlington Heights. 4A for basketball could be done somewhere in the Chicago metro most likely too.
 
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Any parking recommendations for the NU game?
 
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MoCoMdIllini

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We took the train up there. If memory serves me right, it was called the Purple Line on game day.
 
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trtl said:
Any parking recommendations for the NU game?
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If you’re not tailgating and just looking for free parking, park in the neighborhood in the first spot north of Linden you can find (on whatever N-S streets line up with Ryan Field).

South of Linden is Evanston and you have to pay online or you get fined. North of Linden is Wilmette and is free. That’s my understanding.

(Plus, I just like seeing the nice homes in that neighborhood in general.)
 
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ChiefGritty said:
Does this happen every week to teams that don't suck? I feel like this used to be an extreme rarity, but has been virtually every game this year.
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Sure seems this has happened a bunch this year. I have a feeling that they are waiting on West clinching scenarios.

We know Iowa will play Nebraska on Friday afternoon, but I can see a lot depends on what transpires Saturday for remaining games. If Illinois were to pull off the unexpected on Saturday and Iowa and Purdue wins on Saturday. I would expect that Purdue gets 11 AM game, since they would be dependent on result of Illinois game, with assumption that Iowa would beat Nebraska.

My guess is that they would want the game that determines West to be played at 2:30, though with the Wild West, next Saturday could be utter madness.
 
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