Features
Joe Aillet Stadium originally sat 23,000, but in 1985, the school added luxury boxes to the stadium's press box, and in 1989 the stadium's capacity was raised by 7,600 seats to its current capacity of 30,600. The stadium's FieldTurf playing surface was installed in 2008. The seating is made of the two large bowed grandstands on either side of the field, built into a natural bowl. The press box and skybox are on the west side. The facility also includes Spirit of '88, a bronze bulldog statue which commemorates the school's first season in Division I-A. During games, it is ceremonially guarded by the university's Air Force ROTC Valkyrie Honor Guard. A field house is located behind the south hill. There are scoreboards behind both end zone berms, and the stadium features eight banks of lights surrounding the field 150 feet (46 m) above the playing surface. In 2009, the school's athletic department unveiled "Dawgzilla", a high definition video scoreboard which sits in the north end zone. It is the largest videoboard in the Western Athletic Conference. In the fall of 2010, the university announced a $20 million fundraising campaign to build a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m2) facility at the southern end of the facility. The stadium has already used some donations for a brick fence on the west side of the stadium, renovations to restrooms, new shrubs and plants in the stadium, and a tunnel leading from the player's locker rooms to the field.
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