Wondering if this also has to do with NIL in a way and the players having more power than ever. The coaches have always had the freedom to move jobs and now the players do to and can get paid. Harder to build things for coaches, might as well leave jobs even if the seat is only lukewarm and keep...
Wasn’t the Big Ten season only 18 games during Clem’s tenure? Ben has then had 6 more chances at those 15 victories. I’d also guess the conference was deeper to to bottom with probably just Northwestern & Penn St.
Didn’t Norwood fire Tubby after winning an NCAA tourney game?
DePaul has been wandering in the desert for nearly 40 years. Their arena situation is so bad. They went from playing games at Allstate arena in the suburbs near O’Hare airport to playing in Wintrust Arena on the near south side, either place is bad for students and Wintrust is terrible to get to...
I remember Norwood saying at one his talks to donors that even if schools like Iowa & Wisconsin had the same capacity as The Bank, the U would still be $3-4 million less in revenue to the athletic department than those two schools.
I went to google earth and measured Williams, Hinkle, & Welsh-Ryan for width. Williams is the widest at 244 feet. I’m no architect but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last week, so in my expert opinion, it’s doable and would make site lines better and more space available under the stands...
As ive stated in previous posts about the barn, the court needs to be turned 90 degrees, similar to Hinkle and Welsh-Ryan at Northwestern. It would create so much more room under the grandstands and put more seats between the baselines. The suites could go between lower & upper deck instead of...