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TexasTowelie

(122,509 posts)
Sun Nov 26, 2023, 04:43 PM Nov 2023

Nebraska's $450 million Memorial Stadium project faces fundraising questions

LINCOLN — If Nebraska football is a state religion, recent efforts to raise private funds for a new NU football facility and to pay players are its offering plate.

The people in the pews remain generous. Donors largely funded a still-under-construction $165 million indoor facility east of the stadium. History says they will continue to give.

But NU Athletics Director Trev Alberts’ latest push to raise $450 million to renovate Memorial Stadium is facing a Big Red rarity among some Husker boosters and state lawmakers: pushback.

Alberts says the century-old stadium needs work to serve NU fans for the next 100 years. Among the changes planned, South Stadium would be replaced, improving fan seating, restrooms and concessions.

Read more: https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/11/24/nebraskas-450-million-memorial-stadium-project-faces-fundraising-questions/

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Nebraska's $450 million Memorial Stadium project faces fundraising questions (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2023 OP
This is an insane amount of money. I've lived in Lincoln, NE, but I never thought that they had this kind SWBTATTReg Nov 2023 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. This is an insane amount of money. I've lived in Lincoln, NE, but I never thought that they had this kind
Sun Nov 26, 2023, 06:11 PM
Nov 2023

of money for a stadium. I know that they love football, but to spend this kind of money and to put people outside of football and government on hock for it? NO.

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