(04-03-2022 06:41 PM)pantone1935 Wrote: Maybe I am senile, but what do car shows have anything to do with getting alumni football fans to come to Huskie stadium. Car geeks are polar opposites from football
fans.
GO HUSKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not about the damn car show. It's about being involved and staying connected. American love cars, so a car show draws people. People who come to see the cars and maybe contribute to the cause. Some people who may also go to the football game. People who get off their butts and don't sit around all day posting whines and moans and complaints.
All the negative comments on this thread are about we can't, waste of time, don't bother, it won't work. I did some myself. But if that's going to stick as the general attitude, ok then, shut the whole damn thing down and stay home. Save your money. Give up. But don't brag about The Hard Way because it's all Hard Way.
What NIU has going right now isn't much, but it's something. STF came in here with that Wisconsin Big 10 attitude, launched a big splash over a whoopee master plan and ... nothing. He DID try after the Orange Bowl era and ... nothing. Reality set in, and now we're down to dinky projects, a little here and a little there. OK. That's the way it is.
OK, so here's a new master plan. We're getting on with the baseball field infield, the new tennis center, some fix-up at the softball field. OK, what's next? Fix the seats in the Convo? Patch the Convo parking lot? Tell us the specific targets and let's go after it. But tell us. Don't play secrets.
Somebody once said about authors that every one wants to write "the great American potboiler" novel. But what if the real novel is the sum total of all the little stories along the way? Each little story is a step forward? Each one is progress people can see, and it's always going on, dinky project after dinky project.
Take baseball. First it's the infield artificial turf. Then the outfield. Then the pressbox. Then the grandstand. Voila! You got a new baseball stadium.
That may not be the way other schools do it, but it may be the way NIU has to do it. So what?
(Note: not picking on you pantone1935. Much respect. Just getting depressed and tired. Maybe I'm the one who should hang it up. take a hiatus, something.)