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Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.
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A few months ago, it was an area with trees, grass and a statue. Now, it's a construction zone devoid of statuary and vegetation.
Crews have fenced off the area around Memorial Stadium's east side and started work on the expansion that will push the historic venue's capacity past 90,000 by the 2013 season.
John Ingram, NU's associate athletic director for capital planning and construction, said work on the $63.5 million project began in earnest earlier this month. He said he hopes to have much of the foundation for the expansion complete before Nebraska opens the football season Sept. 3 against Chattanooga.
Crews also are relocating utilities and setting in-ground supports for the structure. About 40 trees were pulled from the ground outside East Stadium earlier this year.
Ground-level work on the East Stadium's new stair tower required removing about 1,500 seats from the adjacent Ed Weir Stadium and Nebraska Soccer Field. Ingram said about 5,000 seats remain at that venue, which he said will be sufficient for events there.
Husker fans will notice a few aesthetic changes to the football complex this fall, but they still will be able to enter and exit East Stadium the same as they have in past years. People attending next month's Shrine Bowl will have to use other entrances.
The Husker Legacy statue temporarily was moved from outside the east entrance to the area outside North Stadium, Ingram said, and the plaza now covered in dirt will again be flat and concrete before Nebraska's inaugural Big Ten season.
But after a late-November meeting with Iowa, Ingram said, construction crews will roll back in and get started on steelwork for the new structure.Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.
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ode to Nebraska, 1972. There is an actual Neb at Michigan highlight in this one..
Last edited by entropy; May 27, 2011, 09:03 AM.Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.
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Originally posted by entropy View Post
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