Memorial Stadium: Troy Dannen Provides Renovation Updates

[HCFord1]

Just give me canned beer and stadium seating and that's plenty

 

[nja13]

I thought they changed their minds on the renovation weren’t going to do it?

No, they changed the order and priority of what they were going to do.
Out with making South Stadium more habital for the plebes who sit there and In with giving the well-monied in West Stadium more chances to spend their money.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

Here's a lot more on the stadium renovation from Dannen.

 

[jaihawk]

As a former Jayhawk, I've been keeping track of the rebuild of the West and North sections of our football stadium. For those who are interested, here is a link to the three construction cameras that they have going: Cameras

When I first heard them talking about Memorial Stadium, I thought, how hard could it be to knock shit down and build it up if you started demolition immediately after the last game and worked on it from mid-November until the end of August. Watching this process, I've learned that building anything takes way more time than I thought it would. They've been working around the clock on this. There have been times, earlier in the process, that I checked at 10 at night and they had lights on with people working. With all of that being done, you can see that they still have a ton to do, and that's basically only doing half of the stadium.

I have no idea what they plan to do eventually, but they are either going to have to essentially build a new stadium by tearing down a section at a time (east, west, north, south) and having that not used for a season, while getting 75% capacity, or they are going to have to do something similar to what KU did and arrange for our home games to be played at Arrowhead for a season and just go balls to the wall to rebuild the stadium.

 

[Seaofred92]

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

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Nebraska’s Big Moves: Coaching salaries, stadium plans and NFL Draft outlook​

by:Sean Callahan•about 7 hours•
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Nebraska's Tunnel Walk. (Photo credit: Casey Fritton/HuskerOnline)​

We break down the new assistant coach salary numbers for Nebraska heading into 2025.
In this week’s 3-2-1 column, we hit on that and more with three things we learned, two questions, and one prediction.
RELATED – Three & Out: Nebraska’s 2026 recruiting patience, in-state standouts, and Bradden’s impact

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THREE THINGS WE LEARNED THIS WEEK​

1 – Nebraska assistant coach salary pool set to surpass $7 million 2025​

The known salary pool for Matt Rhule’s 11 primary position coaches in 2025 is set to exceed $7 million in 2025. NU is set to pay 11 contracted assistant coaches $7.395 million next season, which doesn’t include strength coach Corey Campbell ($550,00) or senior assistant coach Jamar Mozee ($200,000).
We also don’t know the new terms for former special teams coordinator Ed Foley, who was paid $550,000 in 2024, or if tight ends coach Marcus Satterfield has agreed to any new terms for the 2025 season.
This week, we learned the salary figures for special teams coordinator Mike Ekeler ($625,000) and defensive line coach Terry Bradden ($400,000).
Rhule came to NU with a $7 million assistant coach salary pool in 2023 but only paid his first coaching staff $5.97 million.

Coach	Title	Salary
Marcus Satterfield	Tight ends coach	$1.4 million
Dana Holgorsen	Offensive coordinator	$1.2 million
John Butler	Defensive coordinator	$1 million
Donovan Raiola	Offensive line	$650,000
Addison Williams	Secondary	$625,000
Mike Ekeler	Special teams coordinator	$625,000
Rob Dvoracek	Linebacker	$450,000
Terry Bradden	Defensive line	$400,000
Daikiel Shorts	Wide receivers	$400,000
Phil Simpson	Outside linebacker	$350,000
EJ Barthel	Running backs	$293,500 (Pending)

2 – Title IX will have no impact on rev-share payments​

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education rescinded former President Joe Biden’s 11th-hour guidance that future rev-share student-athlete payments must align with Title IX.
The $20.5 million would be split 50-50 on this order between men’s and women’s athletics. Most schools plan to use $15 to $17 million of the $20.5 million towards football alone, and the remaining amounts to men’s and women’s basketball and key third sports like volleyball, baseball or wrestling.
The Department of Education shut this all down on Wednesday. I’m sure there are quite a few relieved athletic directors and collective owners everywhere they don’t have to navigate through something like this.
“Enacted over 50 years ago, Title IX says nothing about how revenue-generating athletics programs should allocate compensation among student athletes. The claim that Title IX forces schools and colleges to distribute student-athlete revenues proportionately based on gender equity considerations is sweeping and would require clear legal authority to support it. That does not exist.”

3 – NFL.com projects the SEC and Big Ten to have 12 first-round picks each​

In 2020, the SEC Conference set an NFL draft record with 15 first-round draft picks. Right now, NFL.com predicts both the SEC and Big Ten with 12 first-round draft picks.
It is quite remarkable the dominance these two leagues have on the sport in nearly every metric – TV deals, stadium sizes, teams that made the College Football Playoff, and first-round draft picks.
I also do not see these numbers slowing down. If anything, these leagues’ financial advantages with revenue share and NIL will only continue to grow the gap.

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TWO QUESTIONS THIS WEEK​

1 – When will we know more about the future stadium project?​

What is the future of Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium project? We know the timeline of when the work will begin following the 2026 season, but what about the details?
The latest information is that we may not see anything presented before the NU Board of Regents until their final meeting of the 2024-25 fiscal calendar in June. A couple of years ago, when former AD Turd Alberts presented his proposal to the Regents, the initial number he shared was $450 million, a bare-bones estimate without some of the finishes and other key details that would push the price up.
I’m told not to be surprised at all if the total cost for this project all-in pushes $800 million. Penn State’s stadium renovation will cost $700 million, while Arrowhead Stadium’s renovation will cost $800 million following the 2026 World Cup. KC’s renovation is projected to take four years.

2 – When will Nebraska conduct its Pro Day?​

With the pre-draft all-star games behind us and the NFL Combine starting on Feb. 27, when will Nebraska conduct its Pro Day in Lincoln?
Tentatively, NU’s Pro Day is expected to be on Mar. 25, which is also the first week Nebraska is scheduled to open up spring practice.
It will undoubtedly be one of the Huskers’ more significant pro days in a few years, with the number of players who could be drafted in 2025.

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ONE PREDICTION: Nebraska will not give up a blocked kick or punt in 2025​

After giving up 11 blocked kicks/punts in 2024, it can only go up for Nebraska in 2025. I’m going to predict a complete turnaround. NU will not give up a blocked kick or punt in 2025 under special teams coordinator Mike Ekeler, especially with a new long snapper, Kevin Gallic, in place.
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[Kazman5k]

NIL being included in Title IX was the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. The rest of these sports should be grateful for football. If they ever piss off the CFB people to the point that it becomes its own entity the rest of these sports will crumble.

 

[Stan Raymond]

NIL being included in Title IX was the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. The rest of these sports should be grateful for football. If they ever piss off the CFB people to the point that it becomes its own entity the rest of these sports will crumble.

NIL wasn't, it was revenue sharing that was being talked about under Title IX. Two different things, but equally ridiculous.

 

[Carm]

NIL wasn't, it was revenue sharing that was being talked about under Title IX. Two different things, but equally ridiculous.

This is semantics to some extent, but the settlement characterizes revenue sharing as partial payment for athletes' NIL rights (the revenue comes from ticket sales, sponsorship payments, media payments, etc.). The third-party NIL deals, which are reviewed to determine whether they serve a valid business purpose for the payor (such determination subject to arbitration if necessary), couldn't be subjected to title IX as they are contracts between private parties at arm's length.

I think the settlement itself created the whole Title IX issue by equating these benefits to other benefits that athletes receive. E.g., additional athletic scholarships schools decide to create are funded out of the revenue subject to revenue sharing (i.e., they reduce the revenue to be shared) and, of course, scholarships are subject to Title IX. There is nothing in the settlement that makes the revenue sharing to be allocated to teams of athletes based on the revenue they generate.

From the settlement



Here is how the NCAA describes it


It seems only logical that sports that generate ticket, media and sponsorship revenue should get NIL that are proportional to what they generate. But that has never been how Title IX worked. Title IX gave us the concept of equal numbers of scholarships regardless of revenue produced, same with athlete benefits.

I think this issue is likely to haunt us at some point. I think someone on a women's team will sue at some point for an equal split. I think it will eventually require either a change to the statute or a spin-off of major revenue sports into separate legal entities that license team names from universities, and pay rent for the use of facilities.

 

[Seaofred92]

I am extremely curious to see updated designs on this. $800M means were getting multiple new loge/club spaces along with some serious work being done on the foundation, connecting the concourse, totally knocking down south stadium, etc

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

I am extremely curious to see updated designs on this. $800M means were getting multiple new loge/club spaces along with some serious work being done on the foundation, connecting the concourse, totally knocking down south stadium, etc

Did they announce that was the budget?

 

[Seaofred92]

Did they announce that was the budget?

It’s in the copy/pasted Sean article @2010sarenevercomingback posted above

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

It’s in the copy/pasted Sean article @2010sarenevercomingback posted above

Gotcha, that article is impossible to read on mobile as the text blend in with the theme

 

[Kaladin]

 

[HCFord1]

That game atmosphere was nuts

 

[Seaofred92]

 

[Tell_Sackett]

Did they think thru canned beers?
What could possibly go wrong?

They will hurt less than bottles.

For the Colorado and Cockeye games, we should sell 40s of Old English and Mad dog 2020 for the ladies. Gotta up the ammo quotient for those games.

 

[Frogsker30]

Cliffs/transcript?

Don’t feel like giving ol deaner any clicks

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Cliffs/transcript?

Don’t feel like giving ol deaner any clicks

We're gonna build a wall around the stadium and make Cockeye pay for it.