Dan Wiederer

This rainy, cold weather is not something that I wanted to come back to.

I was out there, Marshall, for 11 days out in the desert.

And then you come back to this and you're like, God, what are we doing?

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 further

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 immediately.