Browsing: McLane Stadium

With opening day roughly seven months away, McLane Stadium is rapidly starting to take shape.

The athletic department hopes the new facility will improve the game day experience for players and fans, while leaving a smaller carbon footprint in the process.

Body of missing construction worker found in Brazos from Baylor Lariat on Vimeo.

Baylor Stadium or McLane Stadium, the name attached to our new football field should not be the center of a debate on whether to ‘thank’ the McLane family.

As an observer sitting in the Student Senate meeting last Thursday, I was confounded as senior student senator Trenton Garza explained students’ view on this move to be somewhat “controversial” on the part of our university regents. Garza essentially argued that the bill, “thanking” the McLane family for their generous donation by using the McLane moniker on the stadium, should not be passed because the use of his namesake was not a condition of the McLane family’s philanthropic deed.

One man remains unaccounted for Tuesday evening after two construction workers were dragged to the bottom of the Brazos River while building the bridge that will connect McLane Stadium and the Baylor Law School.

Construction on McLane Stadium soars past half way point from Baylor Lariat on Vimeo.

The blustery winds Thursday forced a temporary change of plans for construction at the McLane Stadium building site. The last steel truss was scheduled for installation Thursday with a “topping out ceremony” complete with catered lunch, a raffle, a few words from Director of Athletics Ian McCaw and a tree. President Ken Starr and Brian Nicholson, who is the Associate Vice President for Facility, Planning and Construction, were among university administrators in attendance.