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Practice field expansion puts Tennessee in SEC’s top half

This rendering shows how the completed Haslam Field expansion will look when Tennessee 2018 begins preseason practice in August.
This rendering shows how the completed Haslam Field expansion will look when Tennessee 2018 begins preseason practice in August. This rendering shows how the completed Haslam Field expansion will look when Tennessee 2018 begins preseason practice in August.

By David Cobb 3 min read

KNOXVILLE – When the Tennessee football team heads outside Friday to begin its first preseason camp of the Jeremy Pruitt era, it is expected to have a third outdoor field available for the first time.

An estimated $10 million project to expand Tennessee’s practice space will be complete, a team spokesperson confirmed to the Times Free Press.

Pruitt lauded the completion of the additional field in his opening remarks on the main stage at SEC Media Days on July 18.

“When you talk about facilities, our facilities there, the plan that’s been in place, just in the last six months, we have added a practice facility, an extra practice field,” Pruitt said. “We have redone our weightroom, and we have also redone the Anderson center. So when you talk about commitment, you’ve got to have the resources to do it. I think it starts at the top.”

Before the expansion project, Tennessee had one full outdoor field and a second field that was 30 yards shorter than regulation length. Progress on the project gave the Volunteers a second full practice field last season.