May have missed it, but since Northwestern is demolishing their stadium, where is our game against them to be played?
NU is building a temporary stadium on campus, on the lake. Don't know if it will be done in time: https://www.insidenu.com/2024/4/10/...nd-2025-home-games-at-modified-martin-stadium
Already been discussed in the Duke Football 2024 thread, starting here.
BigWayne even posted a nice image of what the field would look like.
NU is building a temporary stadium on campus, on the lake. Don't know if it will be done in time: https://www.insidenu.com/2024/4/10/...nd-2025-home-games-at-modified-martin-stadium
I actually walked by the site yesterday to take a firsthand look and 1.) it's extremely windy, 2.) there's not much space... but 3.) it'd be really cool with the lake in the background. See below for a couple shots (I took it from the lake side so you don't see the lake in my shots). You'll notice on the far righthand side of the second one there are existing bleachers that look over the other athletic field (not the football practice field). I THINK that's the intended location for the "temporary football stadium" but there's not much space on any side...I think it's more of a "temporary bleachers" situation instead of a "temporary stadium". It's already a fenced off/secured area -- they just want to add stands like they did for NASCAR in Chicago in downtown Chicago or how they do it for the PGA for a specific hole. My guess is there's like 30 feet from the current sidelines to the fence. It's not a lot.
Ironically, for those calling it a "glorified High School stadium" there is a very large high school about a mile west of NU's campus that has A LOT more space on both ends where they could easily build up stands. But I don't think they want that as they don't think it's nice enough/iconic enough. But that would be very close to the campus and allow for more seating/parking. Selfishly, I'd love for the game to be in Evanston.
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I actually walked by the site yesterday to take a firsthand look
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If they want to pull it off, they can. Temporary bleachers are easy. Heck, you can rent temporary escalators.
-jk
If they want to pull it off, they can. Temporary bleachers are easy. Heck, you can rent temporary escalators.
-jk
I lived a block away from Ryan Field for a decade.
Frankly the Duke game will be easy, I have no idea how NU expects to host a game against Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, or Wisconsin at this temporary lakefront location. The space just doesn’t exist for a large crowd.
Maybe the Big Ten will help by only sending Rutgers, Maryland, Indiana, Minnesota, and new West coast members to Evanston the next two seasons.
Thanks. Too bad the game couldn’t be moved to the Bears place. Seems as if we will be playing in a glorified high school stadium, but with a great view.
Note that NU claims that the temporary facility will host MOST of their 2024 and 2025 home games.
^ so you think they'll be ready for the first games this Fall? I'm highly dubious...
Based on how poorly they planned so far, good chance it will not go smoothly.
The main thing they really need to do that I think they can handle is to move the field south to make room for bleachers at the north end.
That would allow them to get 2500-3000 seats at each end. There are multiple companies in the business of building up temporary seating like they need.
The harder part will be whatever they try to do on the east side of the field.
I'm still hopeful they'll see the advantages of coming to Durham, we can trade them a future game. Solves a lot of problems...colleges don't tend to work at warp speed.