Does Anyone love Northwestern?

  It's a crisp but delightful autumn day in October and I'm with my guys at Ryan Field and it's a great matchup with Nebraska and we've got our purple on...... and oh yeah.... 95 percent of the crowd is wearing red and chanting "Go Big Red" as the Cornhusker marched down for the winning touchdown.  You know something NU nation?  Maybe you're the reason that Jim Phillips hasn't pulled the trigger on facility renovations.  Common sense would say that Phillips is afraid to go in with all new facilities because he thinks that NU will become the CFB version of The Miami Marlins.  In other words, you build it and no one comes.  Or in the case of Northwestern, people simply drive by it and then shrug.  Where are the alums with the passion for athletics who can write Phillips the check he needs to take NU's facilities into the future and beyond?  You're telling me that NU can't build something like the Gentile Center?  I simply refuse to believe it and I refuse to believe that an exciting team on the come like Northwestern can get outdrawn its on building when said team is fighting for a prime bowl game slot.  Look, I know the losing has probably scarred you there NU nation.  I've witnessed the Francis Peay area and the years when NU football was a tomato can that everyone would be licking their chops to play.  It's almost like NU nation, on both the grid iron and the hardwood, enjoys being miserable.  You're the suburban equaivalent of White Sox nation and by being miserable, you're missing out on something wonderful.  I implore you, NU nation, support the program.  Don't do that thing where you're saying to yourself "well, the good times won't last because it's Northwestern."  Take the ride, I implore you.  Now more than ever, your AD needs you.  This isn't monopoly that's going to be used to construct these new digs like the B Ball court and the new football field.  Jim Phillips is all in there NU Nation.  Are you?