From my post elsewhere...
Austin Peay built this beautiful football stadium four years ago.
When the $17 million facility was proposed, the team was mired in 30 years of mediocrity including the 'one win in four years' streak as the stadium was being built. But amazingly, as the coaches showed potential recruits the plans, interest among a higher class of talent became attracted to the promise of a stronger commitment to football by the University and signed up to play. Indeed the program had what was rated the number one class of incoming recruits in the FCS division one year and has been top five in the recruiting rankings in the other years. They even recruited a four star quarterback (who is injured) . The recruiting efforts have yielded great success on the field as Peay has had three consecutive winning seasons including the 9 win 3 loss current season which just ended with Peay winning the OVC championship and automatically qualifying for the FCS championship playoffs.
The point of this is to illustrate what the impact of having an awesome facility like this can do for a program. I have been there and it is pound for pound one of the best stadiums I have been to for comfort, concessions and rest rooms. It has luxury suites, club seats and chairback seats in some sections, It 'only' seats 10,000, including the rehab of the eastside bleachers (not shown), but it is packed almost every game. There is a very good sports atmosphere. And there are state of the art weight rooms, dressing rooms, cafeteria, coaches offices and alumni meeting rooms in the facility.
It is a success story some other universities should take note of.
Let's go Peay!!