The Courier-Journal (Kyle Tucker) is reporting UK has a plan in the works that would give Kentucky football a new training facility and practice fields. The total for the project is $45 million.
There’s more big news for the University of Kentucky football program: Plans are in the works for a $45 million project that would give the Cats a new training facility and practice fields, according to a tentative agenda for Friday’s 1 p.m. meeting of the Board of Trustees posted on the school’s website.
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The agenda includes an item called “Construct Football Training Facilities and Practice Fields,” which links to an electronic document: a recommendation from the office of UK president Eli Capilouto to approve the project, which will be funded privately. The document spells out some of the proposed details:
* Construction of a new two-story football training structure and two practice fields with an adjoining drill area, all of which will be located at the east end of the existing Nutter Field House, the program’s indoor practice facility.
* The two-story structure will house football administrative offices, locker spaces, team meeting areas, training areas, high-performance and weight-room spaces, equipment rooms, a hydrotherapy room, player locker rooms, lounge facilities, an academic lounge/study area and an entrance lobby with “enhanced visitor amenities.”
* The new facilities will “provide a comprehensive complex to support the entire football operation, including Commonwealth Stadium and the Nutter Field House.”
*The football program’s current space in the Nutter Training Center, which is different from the field house housing bearing the same name donor’s name, will be available to athletes in other sports after the new football facilities are completed.
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Mark Stoops is getting the upgrades hew was promised when he took the Kentucky job. The new training facility would give Stoops $155 million in upgrades. The Commonwealth Stadium upgrade is projected to cost $110 million.
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