Northwestern’s new stadium looks fantastic

They absolutely crushed it

Looks like a soccer stadium. It’s a cool look and makes everything seem cozier. Great verticality of it too.

Now do I want all stadiums looking like this, no. I love stadium diversity. But this looks awesome

First thing I thought, looks just like it’s used for soccer. Not an insult either.

It seats 35K. Student section has no seats and is standing only. Every seat is close to the field. It’s built for intimacy and noise. Very smart by a mid level program with a small fanbase. And if they get really good like Indiana they can easily move the big games to Soldier Field.

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It looks way bigger than it is

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Another aspect of the soccer stadium like design.

I watch YouTube videos about ranking stadiums and I notice all of the euro stadiums look huge but are seating 20-30k less than you’d think

I was thinking 35,000.seats was way too small. Watching the game with all the empty seats. Not a good look.

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Student section has no seats and is standing only.

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This sounds incredibly dumb to me. This is how you get students to leave the game early. Who wants to stand for 3.5 hours?

They asked the students and that is what they wanted.

ETA: the Iowa student section never sits down. Not sure how it is down at LSU.

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Who wants to stand for 3.5 hours?

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I mean, every student section generally stands for most of the game.

In college, the only time we ever sat down was during tv timeouts

Fersure. Helps when Pat Ryan is worth $9B and has a shite ton of influence in IL politics.

Funny enough, he and Goodell have appeared to have taken over the Bears stadium process and kicked Warren to the curb.