[Giants]

Northwestern wants to build a new stadium that would host concerts and serve booze. Some neighbors envision chaos: “People spilling out of concerts drunk.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-northwe...mwhatsnews

sorry if it is behind the paywall, but when a university proposes spending $800 million on a new stadium, I wonder if maybe its educational priorities may be a bit screwed up.

BC

That ship sailed in 1984 when the Supreme Court ruled that the controls exercised by the NCAA over the televising of college football games violated the Sherman Act in the NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma decision. From that point, it was inevitable that we would end up with billion dollar television contracts, coaches earning mid-seven figure salaries annually, and, eventually, players becoming paid employees working under a collective bargaining agreement.

[Giants]

Northwestern wants to build a new stadium that would host concerts and serve booze. Some neighbors envision chaos: “People spilling out of concerts drunk.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-northwe...mwhatsnews

sorry if it is behind the paywall, but when a university proposes spending $800 million on a new stadium, I wonder if maybe its educational priorities may be a bit screwed up.

BC

That ship sailed in 1984 when the Supreme Court ruled that the controls exercised by the NCAA over the televising of college football games violated the Sherman Act in the NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma decision. From that point, it was inevitable that we would end up with billion dollar television contracts, coaches earning mid-seven figure salaries annually, and, eventually, players becoming paid employees working under a collective bargaining agreement.