AU FOOTBALL: Board of trustees to vote on indoor practice facility
The Auburn board of trustees will vote today on the athletic department’s proposal to build a new, multipurpose indoor practice facility.
If the proposal is passed, planning and construction will commence immediately.
Auburn would become the seventh team in the SEC to have a full-sized, 100-yard indoor practice facility. Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky and LSU are the others, while South Carolina and Tennessee have similar, undersized buildings like Auburn. Florida, Georgia and Vanderbilt do not have any type of indoor practice facility.
Built in 1999, the John H. Watson Fieldhouse sits adjacent to the Auburn practice fields and houses a 40-yard artificial turf field. The facility, which measures 155 feet by 210 feet, has a heating system and is cooled by large fans.
The building is too small for a normal Auburn practice, which forces coaches to adjust the schedule and separate the offense and defense. Former coach Tommy Tuberville voiced his complaints about the building on a number of occasions, typically after a rain-shortened, indoor practice.
“We’ve got to start action on a full-size indoor (facility),” Tuberville said after a February 2008 practice. “We’ve just missed too much time that’s available to us by not having something.”
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