Ten years in, is Pat Fitzgerald too comfortable at Northwestern?
EVANSTON — Swing open the doors of the Nicolet Football Center, the multi-purpose home of Northwestern football across the way from Ryan Field, and pause for a second. Look around. Look to your left... There's the weight room. Then maybe a quick glance straight ahead... Snacks! Unlimited snacks for student-athletes! Then to your right... Team meeting rooms, commemorative displays, doors to the indoor practice facility. And a staircase.
That's the direction in which you want to go. Up those stairs, through the glass doors, into the swank second floor lobby of Nicolet, where a sharply outfitted mannequin, clad in full Northwestern uniform garb, will greet you.