KNOXVILLE – Neyland Stadium towers above the banks of the Tennessee River at the University of Tennessee, a longstanding bastion of college football lore on a campus crazed by the sport.
It will be updated and modernized over the next several years, but the structure is one of only eight in the country that seat more than 100,000 fans.
Just a half mile to the west, however, the fields where the football team spends significantly more time have been slipping below the ever-rising standards of major college programs.
An estimated $10 million project is in the process of changing that.
Renovations to Tennessee’s practice space are taking shape, with the Volunteers having access to a second 120-yard outdoor practice field for the first time during the beginning of this year’s preseason camp.