Note: The new playing surface was installed after these photos were posted at the CMU site. It now says "Chippewas" in the endzone.

Wow, looks nice. When I came to the game last year, I didn't enter on the pressbox side and I'm assuming that is all new this year. I really liked Kelly/Shorts stadium. They are talking about a new stadium in Akron and I really hope that if they build it, it will have a closed end that encourages expansion like Kelly/Shorts. I went to the KSU game last week and though they had 25,000+, the stands were 4 independent structures on each side of the stadium that aren't connected. I couldn't help but feel like I was at a high school game.

I live in Michigan and actually thought about going to the game this week to keep my MAC fix, but that would make me miss the Zips on web radio. I'm kinda bummed that the Zips didn't play a "Directional Michigan" team this year, makes for lots of long trips. Anyway, you don't want to know who I'm rooting for in your game, but the stadium looks nice.

Actually, I believe all those photos are from last season or before. I'll post some updated ones, when CMU's web people catch up (frickin' budget cuts!). :rolleyes:


BTW, I have to say: it's fun to beat Kent! :bighat: