University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1985
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Second-string quarterback Mike Orth will likely be redshirted this season if expected starter Mike Norseth remains healthy.
Field house changes to add more seating to lower level
By Chris Lazzarino
Sports Editor
The lower-level bleachers in Allen Field House are being replaced by permanent seating on the north and south ends, and new retractable bleachers on the east and west sides.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said last week that the new seating was planned about a year ago but couldn't be started until the Anschutz Sports Pavilion was completed.
Despite the changes, student seating probably will remain the same, Johnson said.
"There should be an increase of a couple of hundred seats, but we won't know for sure until everything is completed," he said. "The capacity should be around 15,500, up from 15,200."
People still will be able to walk around the field house track, Johnson said. But all track activities, including recreational use of the track, will be moved to the sports pavilion beginning this fall.
Track activities in the sports pavilion will be almost the same as those in the field house.
The schedule for use of the sports
"The current seating is the same that has been there since the field house opened in 1955, other than minor changes to the north and south sections." Johnson said. "We were getting to the point that something had to be done.
"There will be a little bit better aesthetics in the arena area. The seating will be more colorful and it will surround the court more for a better playing atmosphere."
Johnson said changes would cost about $250,000.
Also included in the construction plan is a new, removable railing to replace the old railing above the lower-level bleachers.
"The railing separating the balcony from the lower level will be removed for games," Johnson said. "There will be some type of railing in place when the seats are retracted so there will be the same safety factor.
"But the railing doesn't serve the same function now, because when the retractable seats are in place, it will be a single step instead of a large drop-off."
pavilion track has not been completed. Johnson said.
Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said last week that the construction should begin by the first of September and be completed by the middle of October.
The first level of the east and west bleachers also will be about five inches higher for a better view over the reporters at the press table on one side and the players and statisticians on the other.
Because all track activities will be moved to the sports pavilion, concessions will be allowed on the lower level of the field house. Concessions were not allowed before so that the track would not be damaged.
The new seating will provide aisles that are continuous from the floor to upper-level seating and wider than the aisles in the old bleachers, Temple said.
"There may be an increase in concessions sales, but it depends on how hard people worked to purchase concessions upstairs," Johnson said. "But with the added convenience, there should be some increase."
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