Posted on 05/24/2018 5:39:31 AM PDT by C19fan
On a sun-splashed spring morning scripted by the local chamber of commerce, Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald hops into his Lincoln Navigator and flips on his Under Armour sunglasses. He’s driving from Northwestern’s current antiquated football facility to its resplendent new one, a mile expanse from the program’s musty past to its glistening future.
Fitzgerald tells the story of his favorite reaction to the new $270 million athletic facility, Ryan Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center, which opens next month. The facility looks as if a rendering from “The Jetsons” dropped on the shores of Lake Michigan, with 45-foot floor-to-ceiling windows that run the expanse of the entire practice field overlooking the water. The father of a recruit called it “The Infinity Pool of Indoors,” a nod to the honeymoon-caliber panorama. It’s an apt nickname for a building that percolates with possibilities as vast as the views. “Why do you need waterfalls inside,” Fitzgerald says while chuckling, “when you have waves outside?”
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I just hope for NW athletic’s sake that the campus is not the usual libtard compound of frumpy, dumpy uglified iphone addled clipped haired females, because if it is they could have spent a billion and it still won’t draw top athletes.
NW is a big journalism school. A lot of their grades are at ESPN.
$75,000 a year for undergrad.
That is all.
True but how many students receive financial aid in terms of scholarships and grants. The daughter of one of my colleagues is going to the University of Pennsylvania; cost $75,000 a year. She is receiving $60,000 in tuition waivers
and scholarships. He needs to pay $15,000.
Who paid for it?
Taxpayers or private donations?......................
Probably mostly private funding via exorbitant prices for tickets, parking, and especially sky-boxes.
This isn’t really about sport anymore, it’s about trappings.
Since Northwestern is a private school with wealthy alumni, I’m going to guess it was probably private donations.
Since Northwestern is a private school with wealthy alumni, I’m going to guess it was probably private donations.
The academic standards keep a lot of recruits out, even with the lower standards at all schools for athletes.
I liked the first comment at the article...
“WISCO12 hours ago
And people wonder why there is so much corruption and money in something that was simply supposed to enhance the academic experience. I hate all of this.
Reply44”
Because the Brain Factories care so much about global warming — 45-foot floor-to-ceiling windows that run the expanse — that they have treadmills hooked up to the LED light above the transgender room entrance.
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