Dan Wiederer

Yeah, I might have to, but I'm making a quick turnaround to Indy this weekend as well because we've got some Illini basketball to go cheer on here this weekend.

We're piecing that together still.

But if it's possible to make it to that open practice, which I know is very early tomorrow, we'll try to make that.

My son's off school tomorrow, so there may be an option to get there early.

I would love to listen.

I just think it's so difficult to be so far along in this saga and still have such a lack of clarity.

And I think that they're very hopeful and optimistic that by the middle of June, this will all be very crystallized and clear.

But we can't be promised that.

You know what I mean?

We've lived through this in various forms for almost five years now with this whole stadium saga.

And it just feels like they are so much...

It has to be a real thing because there's no promise that you're going to get what you need from Illinois to make Arlington Heights a real thing.

And so if you don't have a plan B, you are not doing this the right way.

I don't think it's the best case scenario.

I don't think it's the ideal wish of the entire organization to wind up in Hammond, Indiana.

But I think there came a point in time where the patience level forced them to get wandering eyes and to find a plan B that could be viable.

And so I think in that regards, it's not purely leverage, that it has to be a realistic solution for you unless you want to just abandon this project altogether.

finish out the lease at Soldier Field and then figure out what the heck you're going to do with a property in Arlington Heights that you paid almost $200 million for and has, you know, obviously quite a bit of land to deal with.

So, you know, I don't know which way this thing's going to twist and turn in the long run.

Hopefully that gives you some context on kind of where my viewpoint is on it.