Rick Telander questions wisdom of building a stadium for Depaul University

eil Knight
  Rick Telander just doesn't get it. Chicago pushed for the creation of a small arena to host Depaul University for future use of non-basketball events and profit event abilities by private sources as he wrote a column wondering why this new stadium was created for a consistently losing basketball team. Winstrusrt arena is a shrine and modern day church for the consumeratory class and its creation was not about making Depaul University more attractive for recruits and start winning as Chicago sports columnist  Rick Telander had hoped. Telander can't understand how a large 20000 plus university cannot have a stadium on campus instead of 7 mile away and again Telander is ignorant this time on real estate and especially the areas where Depaul University is located.

Telander has noticed that these stadiums indeed have little to do with collegiate programs and sports but instead will be make some renters rich renting out valuable space to out-of-town strangers and conventions and perhaps the tax subsidies given to companies and those that need to hold conventions and waste money need to be examined.

Wintrust was built for McCormick place and for tourists business people to make a few bucks and travel for fun and at the cost 170 million and that money was wasted for tax payers. in the city.   much of this spending went into the coffers of the construction contractors and developers and this was the real purpose of a Wintrust arena and not to provide more convention space of upgrade quarters for a miserable constantly loser basketball program that most Depaul Students would never pay a dime to see them perform on a gym floor. Telander should question why Depaul with a 43-179 record since joining the Big East even survives with a program these days for anything else as being a patsy to the better and bigger programs with more alumni money to maybe buy victories and fill schedules with easy rest games and this is basically why Depaul still exists with a basketball program. Lets us just pray to the Catholic saints and Gods that Depaul never initiated a football program.