What facilities do the Texas Longhorns football team have available to them?
A last-second, one-point win in a low-scoring game might not have been the best sales pitch for the Texas Longhorns, but any good salesman knows that the outcome is more important than the presentation. The 13-0 Longhorns were fortunate to escape with 13-12 victory over the fearless No. 21-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Big 12 Championship game, but their body of work in 2009 should be enough to help No. 3 Texas avoid the heartbreak of last season and earn a spot in the Bowl Championship Series national title game. The Longhorns’ Heisman hopeful Colt McCoy, a four-year starter, had one of the toughest games of his college career, finishing with three interceptions and no passing touchdowns against an inspired Cornhuskers defense. Yet, McCoy manage to drive his team down the field—with the assistance of two costly Nebraska penalties—for Hunter Lawrence’s game-clinching, 46-yard field goal as time expired. Texas held steady all year and in the end triumphed in their most challenging
As Texas Football moves into the 21st century, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium continues to evolve as a state-of-the-art facility at the forefront of college football. Entering the 2009 season, expansion plans are being completed for upgraded south end zone seating, which will increase the stadium’s capacity to 100,119, making it one of the largest in the nation. In addition, construction is also being completed on Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletics Complex that will provide a new football academic center approximately three times the size of the previous area, along with a new indoor practice area, a hall of fame and a newly designed facility entrance. Also, in June of 2009, installation of a new FieldTurf playing surface was completed, providing a state-of-the art surface that will not only hold up to challenging weather conditions, but also allow the stadium to be a multi-use facility. In 2008, renovations to the north end zone, named the Red McCombs Red Zone, were completed with the
The Longhorns play their home games in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Joe Jamail Field. The stadium is located on the campus of The University of Texas. The current official stadium capacity is 100,119, making it the largest football venue in the state of Texas, the largest in the Big 12 Conference,and the 5th largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA. The stadium has been expanded several times and now includes 100,119 permanent seats, the nation’s first high definition video display in a collegiate facility nicknamed “Godzillatron,” and a renovated Joe Jamail Field with FieldTurf. The final planned phase of the stadium’s expansion includes the construction of permanent seating and an upper deck in the south end zone, completely enclosing the playing field. The stadium’s seating capacity is expected to reach 112,000 which would mean it would surpass Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, as the largest football stadium in North America. Sources:
