For those that were in Dublin as well, it looks an awful lot like Aviva from the inside
35,000. Lots of options for them to play elsewhere during the tear down and rebuild. Nice to have an alumnus contribute $800M to achieve it.
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Where will the Northwestern fans sit when they play Nebraska?
No probably not, they will still have empty seats.They’ll regret this when the networks go back to only showing one or two games a weekend like the 70’s and 80’s.
Off topic here, but I wish we would go to grass. If Iowa State, Northwestern, Michigan State and other such programs can maintain a grass field in midwestern weather, there is no reason we couldn't do so also.Make the stadium intimate and really nice. Make it a capacity that is realistic to fill up. No doubt this will be a major upgrade to their current stadium, and probably a better viewing experience for the fans. It being enclosed is also very beneficial. With their proximity to Lake Michigan the wind can get pretty strong there. Hopefully the way it is laid out will block some of that.
I wonder if it will be turf, or if they'll stick with the long grass.
Going to have to wait a decade or so for that to potentially happen. I know there was quite a bit of discussion (at least here on the board) about it this past offseason when the old turf needed to come up. You see a lot of places (high schools now included) going to turf, just because it is so easy to manage. You don't have to worry about it getting torn up after a rain storm or anything like that. Grass is generally safer, but turf is slowly making improvements in that area.Off topic here, but I wish we would go to grass. If Iowa State, Northwestern, Michigan State and other such programs can maintain a grass field in midwestern weather, there is no reason we couldn't do so also.
We would need to bring in a top notch turf coordinator.Off topic here, but I wish we would go to grass. If Iowa State, Northwestern, Michigan State and other such programs can maintain a grass field in midwestern weather, there is no reason we couldn't do so also.
We'd have that going for us, which is nice.
never gonna happen, never gonna happenThey’ll regret this when the networks go back to only showing one or two games a weekend like the 70’s and 80’s.
My first time in this stadium was in 1985 while at grad school and they were playing a very good OSU team and the crowd was modestLooks really nice. Perfect for a small, private school. Kinda like Baylor. Small stadium for a small school. Looks like it could also get really noisy in there. Looks like a good environment. They don’t need a big stadium. That’s stupid. This is smart on their part. They have tons of money. They can’t fill a 50,000 seat stadium, so why build it?
We'd have that going for us, which is nice.