UNC Releases Plans for Football-Specific Indoor Practice Facility

Last November, as the UNC football team was in the midst of a school-record 11-game win streak, it was announced that the school had plans to build an indoor practice facility on campus.

Thursday, the first round of plans for the football-specific building were released–with the location of the project being revealed for the first time.

Plans for the new football practice facility. (Photo via Rams Club)

It’s billed as the “next step” to the Tar Heel football program’s rise to being among the nation’s best.

According to the Rams Club release, the facility will be built near the intersection of Ridge Road and Stadium Drive–on top of where the current practice fields are located.

Two new practice fields–one with a grass surface and another made of turf–will also be built running parallel to the indoor building.

Another part of the plan includes building a new stadium for soccer and lacrosse on the current Fetzer Field site.

As of now, UNC is the only ACC school in North Carolina that doesn’t have an indoor practice facility for football.

While the new building will mainly be football-specific, there is expected to be space for strength and conditioning training as well as sports medicine.

When the project was first announced last year, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham estimated the costs would be around $25 million.

The school has set that number as its fundraising goal.

For comparison, NC State’s indoor facility cost $14 million, Syracuse’s cost $13 million and Virginia Tech opened one last September for $21.3 million.

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