Inside the NORTHWESTERN WILDCATS' $260,000,000 FOOTBALL Facility | Royal Key

[@bryanl7738]

i love the player guided tours. they're the ones who directly benefit from it so their comments feel way more insightful than when a staffer or assistant coach explains stuff

[@Channel54425]

This is a gorgeous facility with an amazing view. I've never been to Illinois or Michigan... I had no clue how much Lake Michigan looks like an ocean. Great video

[@keyodi]

This facility is DEFINITELY in the top 20! I shouldn’t be surprised Northwestern is a rich school with a $18 billion dollar endowment I can’t wait to see what they do with the new stadium. I’d upgrade that locker room too.

[@tommyjackson590]

Finally I’ve been waiting for this episode, one of the best college campuses I’ve been to, amazing in the summertime

[@DarcelStewart]

Absolutely amazing!! The players deserve a place like that. They work hard!

[@BradTaylor-k2e]

Finally someone with good sense speaks up. Yes, the players deserve this

[@SlamDunkTheFunk23]

As someone who has been to some games at Ryan Field in terrible weather, those equipment guys are the best.

[@peytonstamper97]

their football field isn’t even close to this shi… this a top 20 facility with one of the worst stadiums in the country 😭

[@deadspace38]

new stadium announced already

[@heavyizthacrown-5842]

Don’t sleep on Northwestern, they got a new stadium in the works.

[@KevinLDavis-fs3jj]

@@deadspace38it’s announced but the residents are blocking it currently. So yes, it’s been shown but the biggest hurdle hasn’t been cleared.

[@TheLazyPinecone]

Liberals don’t understand football

[@BayPawLobeezy_World]

Yeah Northwestern gotta fix that. But the team gotta be more successful.

[@LawMom6]

For all those saying this team is always bad, in the last ten years they have finished the season ranked in the top 25 four times including #8 in 2020, they are 4-1 in bowl games and have 2 Big Ten West Division Championships.

[@TheGabagoolGuru]

i have been waiting for this one for so long. Longtime subscriber and I remember when they showed the renders for this facility before building. I always told my buddies that I would go here strictly because how nice it is.

[@zaytoven0545]

As a Sport Management major, it’s pretty dope to see stuff like this.

[@pauljoran654]

Another great video...definitely one of the classiest facilities in the country

[@turkishdelight6032]

This has been one of the best facilities for years; a lot of people had no idea since the football team didn't consistently garner attention

[@panthersfan1238]

HE'S STILL DOING THIS?!??! This is amazing😂 when I first saw him do tours was like 7-8 years ago

[@adampalmer5399]

That is the best football facility location wise in the game!💯🔥

[@amahlegumede2967]

It was built mainly for football but it is used by other sporting codes hense why the $260 mil price tag. Its basically the hub for their sports complex

[@MikeBryanThe2nd]

Amazing and On Patrol LIVE playing in the facility it HILARIOUS!!!

[@DougJDoug]

Loved visiting Chicago, Evanston and the dog beach there. Nice little town, great bars, restaurants, watched a movie there and had fun. 👍

[@davidumana8491]

I didn't know they had such stunning facilities. Love the design!

[@SportsDissected]

A true gem.

[@patmartin4411]

If only they could produce a football team

[@chestervcopperpot6566]

lets also mention they were the winners of the 1948 Rose Bowl

[@heavyizthacrown-5842]

That’s a top 10 football facility, especially with the glass walls and a beach directly outside.

[@brandonmalik6641]

Y’all finally did NU let’s go one of the best in the country

[@RockSmithStudio]

Amazing facility. Still waiting excitedly for the Auburn one since you ranked it #5 in your "The 20 BEST College Football Facilities We’ve Seen, RANKED" video

[@labounti]

I was here two weeks ago with the Cal Bears Women's Field Hockey Team. Great looking place.

[@decafmocha211]

I lived just north of there steps from the beach...Class of 71

[@phara0h623]

guys the team went 7-5 with an interim coach, yall can chill

[@LordTepes81]

Not a chance in the BIG 10, where Iowa ACTUALLY played in the conference championship. Iowa had the worst total offensive team in NCAA, and won by a margin of less than 6 points if you take the FCS team they played off the schedule. They got shut out in both games against ranked teams and you're talking about being 7-5 in the worst Power 5 conference by a mile. 5 of the 10 worst offenses belong to the BIG 10....including those 7-5 Northwesrern Wildcats sitting in at 121/130. I'm sorry but that 7-5 record in any other Power 5 conference would be (I'm being generous) 5 wins at best. Northwestern truly sucks.

[@juliangranzetto4780]

not reading all that @@LordTepes81

[@Schmidayy]

@@LordTepes81you love moving the goal posts

[@FyrFytr998]

That Big 10 money even has traditionally losing programs laced with the best facilities.

[@heavyizthacrown-5842]

The programs split the TV money so they all get paid. Keep in mind Northwestern is a private university, they don’t need the FB team’s revenue to build impressive facilities, they already have deep pockets.

[@turkishdelight6032]

@@heavyizthacrown-5842 True. Northwestern is an elite and extremely wealthy university

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

@@heavyizthacrown-5842so does every other program in the B1G

[@FlintTownQ]

Everybody says they have the best in the country

[@braydenwilliams4478]

I think an episode on the Purdue Boilermakers facility. Basketball or football

[@streethockeyking98]

Weird that sexual harassment wasn’t on the values poster

[@johny8698]

Sick program. minus the hazing..

[@Zobin211]

At the 0:15 mark they show NFL helmets in some area of the facility. They are hung in order by conference, division, and then alphabetical by team city, state, or region. However, if you look closely, you see that the NFC East is out of order. Dallas should be on top and Philadelphia 3rd. New York and Washington are fine where they are. Either they put them up wrong originally and no one noticed, or someone took some helmets down (perhaps to clean) and put them back incorrectly. Now I feel I have to send their Athletic Department an e-mail! :)

[@sapp3k]

Gotta do a tour of university of Houston football

[@jasonhawkins8845]

Can you do an Arizona State Sundevils football tour

[@_Michael.Knight]

How many Big Ten championships does Northwestern have??

[@DarkKing009]

8 (1903, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1936, 1995, 1996, 2000)

[@bennyzach]

Been waiting for this one

[@Theoneandonly405]

Never thought i’d see a football stadium right on the beach lol

[@MikeHarrell-h5f]

You would have thought they could have pulled the weeds growing outside on the porch of the players lounge

[@tommyjackson590]

Do William & Mary they got a new stadium a couple years ago

[@gphillimo]

Where tf did northwesterm get 260 million dollars?

[@59Skii]

Donors like every other school 😭

[@sharifs649]

​@@59Skii dummies northwestern has the biggest endowment in the big ten alums got unlimited money

[@yetekt6953]

Northwestern is really really rich

[@ericgibbs6749]

Donors n Big 10 Revenue is huge!!!

[@2777green]

They are like the 12 richest school in the country

[@RT-xj7el]

Impressive!

[@burninghammerstudios7033]

YES! my favorite team CHICAGO OVER EVERYTHING!!!!

[@chrispostell8150]

260 million and they’re still awful is insane

[@grunt6799]

Tells you how much money is in CFB. Even mid-tier teams have the Bengamin's to spend.

[@juliangranzetto4780]

bro this is one of the most prestigious schools in the country. of course they have money. it has nothing to do with how good the team is. y'all are actual idiots.

[@chadchadderton]

I mean they weren't awful this past season so you're way off the mark...

[@steelhere5519]

- They could’ve given that money to Donald Trump because he needs it.

[@battleford3574]

Werid how US universities waste so many millions to be farm clubs for the NFL. Especially given the fact that most schools loss money on football.

[@easyL844]

Teams like Northwestern make over $50mil a year just off TV deals, they spend so much money to make it seem like they don't make profit. They don't lose money they just want you to think that

[@MbisonBalrog]

Northwestern barely has any draft picks. Maybe one or two who never see field.

[@MbisonBalrog]

@@easyL844but how? Alumni is small. Who are the fans? Plus as tuition goes up they will have less students hence fans and just alienate everyone.

[@easyL844]

@@MbisonBalrog They're apart of the BIG10, they get a billion a year from Fox and CBS, NW cut is $80 to $100mil a year but they don't pull their own weight in the conference(football wise) so they might be dropped from the BIG10 in the future, that's why they're building all this stuff trying to keep up they don't wanna lose the moneytrain

[@duhrell]

Most US Sec Colleges Football programs bring in the most money some schools have good football teams and. Basketball baseball track etc sports in general usually rakes in the most money

[@gagejernigan5277]

This is proof that money doesn’t always equal a good product on the field 😭

[@burninghammerstudios7033]

That’s why they won the big ten west in 2018, 2020, and went 8-5 winning a bowl game last year Fuck outta here lol 😼🟣⚪️

[@Technovore88]

​@@burninghammerstudios7033 Bro the fact that you have to claim the DIVISIONAL part of a conference and the whatever the Las Vegas bowl is as big time winning is crazy lol.

[@Owen004]

Incoming “all that just to suck” comments

[@salioufall27]

It looks more like the Avengers headquarters, it's great

[@robertwoods4457]

When are you going to Ohio State football? And Rutgers football?

[@jfizzle]

Charlie looks like a 38 year old single dad. Jesus.

[@maizeman90]

Gorgeous facility and location. Lackluster weightroom and players lounge. A bit of a letdown.

[@steelhere5519]

- Fox News said that people in America are starving and they can’t afford to pay their bills? This new football facility must be on another planet?

[@stephensnyder1055]

I mean, that is true.

[@burninghammerstudios7033]

For everyone talking shit in the comments 2018 and 2020 big ten west champions and 8-5 winning their bowl vs Utah last year under a first year head coach 😼🟣⚪️

[@Sky-gt4fp]

So they built a nice facility to attract talent… and yet it didn’t work ….

[@bradk7048]

yes it worked

[@brocktologistmd]

Why are there weeds growing on the player lounge balcony? 😂😂😂

[@chestervcopperpot6566]

1-11 in 2022 currently 5-5 in 2023 lol

[@whynot4_0]

I would really love to see the BASKETBALL FACILITIES

[@jackcostello4996]

They got a amazing new basketball arena

[@Maalthe1]

Mug been in school 6yrs damn

[@MyKeeP81]

yeah probably redshirted then got injured for a year

[@RobOn85South]

6 years is crazy 😂😂😂

[@Super-J10]

Isn’t that like $200,000,000 per win ? I mean I didn’t go to Northwestern or anything…..

[@carlhenley5819]

Obviously

[@chadchadderton]

We can tell.

[@Luke-kk7mp]

Smh… still no div 1 hockey in Illinois and all this money going into a program that’s already nice and established

[@FatboyyTransport]

Bruh. You been in college six years?

[@richieb3356]

Grad student.

[@duhrell]

I would too 😂 if im above average on the football field … im leaving this school with something and thats a degree my boy 😂😂.. enjoying my time because i doubt im going to the nfl

[@YoutubeGM206]

I thought Northwestern was in Montana or something

[@BrockLaneFilms]

same lol had to google the location

[@Devistech]

Right I sholl thought they were on the east coast 😂😂

[@paidtourist6563]

I thought Montana was in Florida or something

[@YoutubeGM206]

@@paidtourist6563 right😂😂😂

[@JasonMatthewsmfis]

might be the best facility in the country. Over Oregon, Over Florida, Over UT, Over Bama

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

Not over the new Nebraska one

[@bluthgold533]

Oregon can’t be matched because they have had Phil Knight funding them for years.

[@JasonMatthewsmfis]

@@bluthgold533 I been to Oregon this facility looks nicer.

[@SmittyWanKenobi]

Shoutout to my boy Eryk!!!

[@jshooper7819]

$260M for a program with the results of Northwestern is absurd. Talk about no return on investment. At least Oregon, Texas, Alabama etc have the play on the field to match their investment in facilities. Northwestern needs to start investing in landing better recruits / players.

[@RandallButtler]

It’s a medical school… they have the best hospital in downtown town Chicago

[@jshooper7819]

@@RandallButtler OK? What does that have to do with my comment? UTMB is one of the best in the world renowned Houston Medical center. That doesn't mean the University of Texas isn't invested in football.

[@juliangranzetto4780]

none of those teams are beating us in basketball though

[@RICHARDRamirez-ff7td]

Because they have more money. From the big 10.

[@angeltomlinson6354]

260 mil when they can’t even pull in 50mil in revenue is crazyyyy

[@paidtourist6563]

Probably all donations

[@chadchadderton]

don't they literally make like over 50mil a year in broadcast revenue alone?

[@angeltomlinson6354]

@@chadchadderton nobody watches northwestern play 😂

[@samelmudir]

They have this but play in a high school stadium ....

[@LawMom6]

They just played their last game there. They are tearing it down and building a brand new $800 million stadium.

[@icetube1254]

bro thats why they charge 50k a year for school in Us haha

[@raymcnitt9054]

Maybe at a d-2💯😂🤣

[@stmonroe]

Actually Northwestern is about 95K a year.

[@hartiwanger9176]

​@@stmonroewooooo!

[@hollywood4012]

Wtf they won to deserve a facility like that 😂

[@mrink241]

It’s not what they’ve won, it’s them having a hell of a donor. Dude is rich as hell and decides to spend his money on that improvised football team.

[@chrishaugh1655]

@@mrink241 they didn't have a single donor that paid for that facility my guy.

[@mrink241]

@@chrishaugh1655 oh ok so the school paid it themselves? I didn’t know that.

[@chrishaugh1655]

@@mrink241 no, I mean that they didn't have just "one" donor. There were multiple very wealthy donors involved from a campaign they ran.

[@mrink241]

@@chrishaugh1655 I just know about Patrick Ryan the super rich guy… I’m an Oklahoma State fan and we’ve had one major donor Boone Pickens, so I figured it was the same for Northwestern.

[@davidquery9132]

My dude just called Corn Hole... "Bags"?

[@bradybisgard]

It’s bags

[@kennethwayneofficial]

thats what we call it here.

[@donaldsmith6644]

only hillbillies call it Corn Hole

[@maizeman90]

That is what most people call it

[@ryan_a]

Where’s auburn

[@mralwayslate1496]

This is insane..Like why lmao smfh yall got money to burn but the players not coming lmao

[@FTBLDepot]

*Admission requirements

[@tjizzle12386]

if they loosen their academic requirements they’ll attract better talent

[@MICHAEL24AZ]

260 mil? For what?! LOOOLLLLLL

[@hartiwanger9176]

The beach

[@MagnetarCO]

The comment section on this is abysmal, it's apparent by the lack of grammar, spelling and general knowledge that most if not all of these commenters don't have the grades nor the scores to get into this school. This is not a random state school, this is an elite university similar to Notre Dame.

[@williamolsen259]

BUDDY KZbin is a place where people can express their true feelings, and show who they really are. I can estimate the about 96% of the people on here know how to use correct grammar, as long as they are 10+. I politely ask you, please do not comment on what other people can and cannot do with their life, and have no doubts in them. I don’t know what you do for a living, but maybe you have a job or passion that does involve you to use correct grammar, and others do not, so they don’t use it as often, but they still know how to use grammar and spell words in the correct way. Just please remember that everyone has their own passions that they may want to pursue in life, and you should not be putting the, in a state where they feel like they cannot get into a good school, such as Northwestern or Notre Dame, and sometimes people make typos.

[@BradTaylor-k2e]

You tell ‘em, bro. They’re idiots and what’s the point of their stupid comments.

[@patmartin4411]

Notre Dame? Blahahahahahaaaa I say, say again, Blahahahahaaaaaa

[@markjackson6431]

they got a “beach”!?

[@mrink241]

Plenty of beaches on Lake Michigan

[@JohnSkyLey]

Beaches are on the ocean - it's a lake@@mrink241

[@nickwhite4580]

@@JohnSkyLey A beach is defined as "a strip of land covered with sand, pebbles, or small stones at the edge of a body of water, especially by the ocean between high- and low-water marks". It's technically a beach even though usually a beach is by an ocean.

[@jacobmathew666]

Day 1 of asking for updated Miami canes football or basketball

[@noahman39]

Bro said the sheistys 🤣

[@danielledoyle5670]

Northwestern is about the sec equivalent to arkansas. They arent bad, but they qrent great. They both have about a fifty fifty chance of getting into a bowl agme and winning it. Both teams play in the 2 hardest conferences in the league. They arent a bad team, they just arent good enough to be playoff candidates. Most teams cant make it to a bowl game. Just because they dont meet what the conference is known to be doesnt mean they are bad.

[@emoney3912]

Arkansas is a tier better than northwestern.

[@danielledoyle5670]

@@emoney3912 yeah, cuz sec is harder to play in

[@aicreatedstorytime]

Do Kansas State

[@soonminkwon9394]

🔥

[@eely225]

Of course they couldn’t possibly pay their players. That would be ridiculous.

[@TheJlouis997]

Shout out to Shrek Squad keep pounding 😂

[@jacobkluck2926]

It’s amazing how much they spent but can hardly win

[@KingTK9]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@shivraj8213]

Do university of Arizona

[@johnpierson4696]

How are they going to pay for this when they get kicked out of the BIG and relegated to the Conference USA?

[@jeffbradley8314]

It's paid for already.

[@FreddyMacT]

Six years?

[@PhanoftheShow]

pandemic

[@agreeneish]

Yeah and right on the ocean too ..

[@deadeyedp]

yessir right on the coast of illinois, best ocean views and beaches in the country

[@MyKeeP81]

lol thats a lake homie. i hope you dont live in the usa otherwise my god sheesh lol

[@agreeneish]

@@MyKeeP81 Yeah I knew that cool guy. I wuz just bein a smart A. Seein if someone would take the bait

[@pneumonoultramicroscopicsiIico]

Maybe if they spent that much on recruiting they wouldn’t be so bad 🤷‍♂️

[@henrylam92]

A nice facility can attract more talent

[@MbisonBalrog]

Can they pay people directly to attend? Or will this be laundered through NIL?

[@darkmatter5424]

This is the same football team that rejected Jimmy Garoppolo, no?

[@MbisonBalrog]

What is point? The team sux. Tuition isn’t getting cheaper. Why don’t the donors just buy an NFL franchise?

[@chadchadderton]

They had one of the most impressive seasons in college football this year lmao. In what world can you get an NFL franchise with this donation money?

[@MbisonBalrog]

@@chadchadderton lol 8-5 dafuq are you talking about? Steadily go back to 6-7 in few years then 1-12. If can’t buy NFL then XFL or anything. Just save it and splurge in vacay

[@chadchadderton]

@@MbisonBalrog What's your point? you said they currently suck, but that was proven incorrect. You can't buy an XFL team as it's not franchised, and even if you could... why would you purchase a for-profit organisation that is going to lose money? You're right, they could save it and splurge on vacation... or perhaps save it and donate to an institution if they please...

[@MbisonBalrog]

@@chadchadderton one okie dokie season does not mean they not sux. Donating they lose the 💰. This only benefit handful of players who won’t ever play in NfL. They just paying the builders, or some tax scam or something.

[@chadchadderton]

@@MbisonBalrog They were literally a top 10 team like 2-3 years ago, they've literally played in the B1G championship game twice in recent memory also. This donation is significantly cheaper than anything NFL or XFL related, and they wouldn't consider this "losing" money considering what it gains them behind the scenes. It's also used by the entire athletic department not just football btw... how were you so way off on everything you've said?

[@jamiefranciscus1377]

Wku!

[@quinftbl]

This is too much for too few.

[@Jah_shewa_Atom]

When bill gates is close by the investment will be fire

[@dennisgriffin6742]

Big Bro Illinois only spent 80 mil and it’s better than little bros. lol Gotta love that Chicago price gouging.

[@MahaneyMedia]

Is this their attempt to distract us from that fact they were bullying & hazing the hell out of freshmen players?

[@liamdraper1347]

Yes. Did it work?

[@yesDX]

yes, you're a genius! A college spent $260M and on a facility and built it in 4 months....solely to distract people from reports of bullying and hazing.

[@SlowPeace25]

And a 2 mile ambulance trip costs $1,200 out of pocket and thousands of vets are eating out of dumpsters but look at that PHAT football palace. #AmericaPriorities

[@marlonole7732]

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@ggray1213]

This team sux balls tho…

[@chadchadderton]

They had one of the most impressive seasons this year...

[@telordesuvage3072]

All this for a piss poor football team every year 😂

[@thunderpantz]

7 wins this year and in tough circumstances too.

[@telordesuvage3072]

@@thunderpantz dude that’s not good especially in a sucky big 10. Being bowl eligible dosent make the team good.

[@thunderpantz]

@@telordesuvage3072 It's not poor, is it?

[@thunderpantz]

@@telordesuvage3072 And the Northwestern coach got named the league's Coach of the year.

[@chadchadderton]

what about being a top 10 team just a couple years ago?