Nebraska football officially unveiled a proposed new football facility that athletic director Bill Moos said will be “a state-of-the-art, best facility of its kind in the country.”
The North Stadium expansion will a 350,000 square foot facility that will house the home of Nebraska football, as well as the training table and academic support for the entire Nebraska athletic department. The building will come with a $155 million price tag, and Nebraska hopes to break ground in spring 2020 with construction done in summer 2022.
The $155 million project will link the new facility with Memorial Stadium and will also improve the fan experience at Memorial Stadium. Construction will include new vertical transportation for fans entering and exiting the North Stadium.
The facility will provide the Nebraska football program with a new locker room, strength and conditioning center, athletic medicine facility, equipment room, meeting rooms, coaches’ offices and an additional outdoor practice facility. Plans for the building also include the training table and academic support facilities for student-athletes across all 24 Nebraska sports.
The current football facilities were built to accommodate a roster of approximately 125 players. Head Coach Scott Frost has placed a renewed emphasis on the importance and mission of the storied Nebraska walk-on program. Nebraska’s 2019 roster has more than 150 student-athletes creating a need for an expanded locker room, weight room, athletic medicine and meeting spaces.
Nebraska owns the largest roster in the Power Five ranks this season and trails only the service academies among FBS schools.
“This new complex will give our football program everything we need to operate efficiently on a daily basis,” Frost said in a statement. “This building will showcase Nebraska and be a difference-maker as we sell our program to recruits from all parts of the country. It was also important that we design a building that benefits all of our student-athletes and helps position all of our teams to compete at the highest level.”
The Nebraska Athletic Department has a goal of raising approximately $100 million to fund the ‘Go Big’ project. Moos said fundraising is about 35 to 40 percent to goal.
