(01-05-2018 09:25 AM)Rabid Squirrel Wrote:  

(01-05-2018 12:55 AM)Dtownboys Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 12:26 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 12:24 PM)MileHighHuskie Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 12:20 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  I know this won't happen, but I have always felt attendance would rise significantly if we had a domed stadium. People don't like to sit outdoors in bad weather. Chances around here are good that the gameday weather will be crappy: rain, wind, cold, snow. Will the increase in attendance offset the cost of the dome? No, but I can dream anyway.

I am in this camp as well. It would make for a very loud Dog House.

Yea I agree. Too bad we don't have the money for that.

I'm sure it won't happen but I dont think it's as far fetched as you think. The Unidome cost 7.5 million to build which apparently is 32+ million is today's money. That's not bad when considering the cost of our master plan. The Fargodome cost 48 million which is over 80 million in today's dollars. Still not outrageous but out of our reach at this point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNI-Dome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargodome

A small dome like Uni or Kibbie would be great! Especially if you could keep Brigham Field for nice weather games. That's a luxury for schools with tons of cash, not NIU. The problem with the small dome is dropping the capacity below the FBS requirement of 20,000. But since espn is mostly responsible for the maction debacle, get them to pay for half of it...call it the espn maction dome and skirt the 20k rule. Maction games, in a dome or outside, aren't drawing more than 12-15k anyway. How fun would a packed dome of 15k Huskie fans in December when its 0 degrees outside? It would be like a mini vacation.

I was in the dump known as the Kibbie Dome when the Huskies played there in 2007. Not something we'd want for NIU.