Saturday open practice CANCELED
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Too bad. I would have liked to get any live observation from folks on how the various other QB options are progressing. Oh well.
Hope Clayton's recovery is going well!!
Not gonna lie... I doubt you'd see Fitz put much out there that would allow the QBs to be judged. Would have been a pretty "plain vanilla" offense, likely mostly 2s and 3s playing.
I mean, I'm sure you're right, but at least we'd be able to see something. And yes on the 2s and 3s, but at QB those are the ones that could potentially be playing for us against Purdue!
But you're not going to learn much about any of the QBs if they're playing primarily against our 2s and 3s.
Those can'r even compare to OUR SPring GAME, nothing like it on the planet can compare to NU's Spring game...nothing at all. Just have to wait until the August kick-off to see. I'm in the camp of not holding my breath waiting for Clayton to start the season.
Uh, now their seasons are doomed for failure without a Spring Game! At least according to willy.
but we might learn more than the ~ 0 snaps that we've seen of them in any kind of competition since HS thus far?
The bleacher capacity is 900. Can't believe there will be more than 900 people willing to show up on a snowy Saturday......
Perhaps. Fitz bitched and moaned last week about poor fan support, but cancelling an opportunity to let fans into the new facility even if only on a first come/first served basis ain't helping build support.......
What are the chances that a significant number of "new" fans were planning to show up anyway? The spring game is essentially an event for existing STHs and their kids.
Then let the existing STHs and kids attends. Maybe they won't be so inclined to sell their tickets to Michigan and ND fans.
Amen brother! I know that the program has no obligation to hold a public practice for our benefit, but this is pretty disappointing. My son was signed up for the skills clinic and I was looking forward to whetting my appetite for next year's season. Definitely disappointing.
“I hate to break it to everyone, but our priority is us — to get the football team better and improving,” Fitzgerald said. “Maybe fans won’t like me because of it, but there’s a safety component to this, and if the weather looks inclement, we’re not going to change the schedule to sell a hot dog or two.”
He said Ryan will eventually be able to hold 1800 and if it was ready they would likely have used that option.
Love my boy Fitz, but wish he would choose his words differently to be a little less defensive. Fans didn’t do anything wrong here and it was an unnecessary dig.
He said Ryan will eventually be able to hold 1800 and if it was ready they would likely have used that option.
Love my boy Fitz, but wish he would choose his words differently to be a little less defensive. Fans didn’t do anything wrong here and it was an unnecessary dig.
Well a hell of a lot of them showed up when Barnett was coaching and the game was even on live TV.
Can't wait to see to super, secret trick plays Fitz has for the opening game. First play from scrimmage, JJTBC! Oh wait!
Maybe you can work on some new complaints with all the free time you won't spend heading to the spring game. Yours are all pretty old and tired.
Don't know but likely the Evanston Fire Marshall had something to say about loading up the practice facility with fans. My understanding is that there is still significant construction going on in other areas of the facility so they would not have a full occupancy permit yet. Evanston likely cut NU some room to have the unveiling event.
Sounds like a shaky reason. As you pointed out, they had hundreds of folks there for the opening. Could they have talked it over with the City and seen how many fans/media they could’ve accommodated, and given passes?
Minny held an open practice in their new indoor facility for fans.
Just seems like a bad juxtaposition that they open a $200MM indoor facility and just days later comes this weather cancellation. It is a missed opportunity - they could’ve built positive PR by inviting fans in.
Minny has decided to move their spring game to Thursday night.
By the way, was this a big recruiting weekend?
By the way, was this a big recruiting weekend?
Stop it!
Open practices and even one spring game were axed before and fitz had fans go into the Old indoor. At any rate, typical NU under Fitz. Who cares about the fans, just spend your money and sit in your seat on Saturday. Yaaawwwnnnn