Univ. Of Memphis Unveils Indoor Football Practice Facility

The Univ. of Memphis today "unveiled its long awaited indoor football practice facility." Memphis President David Rudd, along with football coach Ryan Silverfield, senior LB JJ Russell, AD Laird Veatch and BOT member Cato Johnson "cut the ribbon in a private ceremony shared on Twitter through the Memphis football page." The $11.2M facility, which is 78,000 square feet, is "attached to the back of the Billy J. Murphy football complex and features NFL-level field turf." The field has been "named the Hardin Family Field." Inside, there will be "floating goal posts with mechanical nets in each end zone, LED lighting, two video platforms, a scoreboard at the south end zone and wall pads around the full perimeter" (Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL, 6/17).