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<blockquote data-quote="Fighter of the Nightman" data-source="post: 2064801" data-attributes="member: 590800"><p>I wonder if Northwestern doesn't really want to play Illinois at Wrigley. If they are playing de-facto road games in their "home" stadiums vs. Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio State, etc., they can rationalize it as crazy-passionate fan bases traveling well and dwarfing their small, elite club of alumni in pure size. If they play us at Wrigley in front of a partisan orange crowd, it probably stings more and does more damage to their marketing efforts in Chicagoland.</p><p></p><p>And it would indeed be quite orange. I went last time in 2010, and NU restricted tickets to only be available to Northwestern students and season ticket holders. Illinois was allotted its standard 3,000, so we theoretically should have had 7.5% of the crowd. Instead, it was closer to 50/50 or even 55/45 Illini fans. If Illinois fans were willing to literally buy NU season tickets for this one game or pay exuberant prices on StubHub, they'll definitely show up for a more standard ticket sale setup (which I imagine it would be this time).</p><p></p><p>P.S. One of the funniest visuals from the 2010 game is that all of the rooftop seats (which were not restricted in the same way) were completely full of Illini fans. It makes for a funny visual behind the Northwestern student section in the right field bleachers. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite18" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL :ROFLMAO:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /> </p><p></p><p><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/11/21/sports/wrigley1/wrigley1-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 767px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fighter of the Nightman, post: 2064801, member: 590800"] I wonder if Northwestern doesn't really want to play Illinois at Wrigley. If they are playing de-facto road games in their "home" stadiums vs. Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio State, etc., they can rationalize it as crazy-passionate fan bases traveling well and dwarfing their small, elite club of alumni in pure size. If they play us at Wrigley in front of a partisan orange crowd, it probably stings more and does more damage to their marketing efforts in Chicagoland. And it would indeed be quite orange. I went last time in 2010, and NU restricted tickets to only be available to Northwestern students and season ticket holders. Illinois was allotted its standard 3,000, so we theoretically should have had 7.5% of the crowd. Instead, it was closer to 50/50 or even 55/45 Illini fans. If Illinois fans were willing to literally buy NU season tickets for this one game or pay exuberant prices on StubHub, they'll definitely show up for a more standard ticket sale setup (which I imagine it would be this time). P.S. One of the funniest visuals from the 2010 game is that all of the rooftop seats (which were not restricted in the same way) were completely full of Illini fans. It makes for a funny visual behind the Northwestern student section in the right field bleachers. :ROFLMAO: [IMG width="767px"]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/11/21/sports/wrigley1/wrigley1-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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