Appalachian State:
Kidd Brewer Stadium
School Founded: 1899
Location: Boone,
North Carolina
Football Founded: 1928
Current Conference: Southern
Facilities:
Kidd Brewer Stadium (Capacity 24,050) Officially opened on September 15, 1962 as
Conrad Stadium, in honor of former University trustee and R.J. Reynolds
executive William J. Conrad, the stadium was originally constructed with 10,000
permanent seats.
Conrad Stadium was renamed on Sept. 3, 1988 in
honor of Kidd Brewer, one of the most successful head coaches in Appalachian
football history and a colorful part of North Carolina history. Brewer, a
Winston-Salem, N.C., native who served as head football coach of the
Mountaineers from 1935-38, compiled a 30-5-3 overall mark in his four seasons
at the helm of the Apps. An All-American at Duke, Brewer’s 1937 squad was
unbeaten and unscored upon in the regular season.
The stadium has undergone many face-lifts since
its construction, but still stands as a beacon to the Mountaineer faithful.
Seating capacity was expanded from its original
10,000 to 18,000 with the addition of 8,000 seats on the stadium’s west side
following the 1978 season. Completion of an extensive renovation and
restoration project on the original 10,000 seats in 1995 readjusted the
permanent seating capacity to 16,650.
The capacity remained at 16,650 until 2008, when
a 4,400-seat upper deck on the stadium’s east side and the renovation of
handicapped seating areas upped the amount of permanent seats to 20,150.
TV Market(s): Charlotte
(24th TV market) and Raleigh-Durham (27th TV market).
All-time Record: 538-302-28 (18 conference titles)
- Claimed National Championships
- 2005 (NCAA Division I-AA National Champions)
- 2006 (NCAA Division I-AA National Champions)
- 2007 (NCAA Division I-AA National Champions)
Rivalries:
- Furman Paladins
- Georgia Southern Eagles
- Western Carolina Catamounts
Student Population: 17,589 total. (15,712 undergraduate)
Endowment: $69,551,090
Million
Athletic Budget: $14.5 Million
The Sporting News: Is it inevitable that your school will become an FBS member, or is there still a good chance you will remain in the FCS?
CC: We spent
a year studying and we had a pretty blue-ribbon panel to help us walk through
the conversation.
For us, if we
can find an FBS home that meets the specifics that we've talked about here ...
we need to be in a league with rivals, the geography needs to meet. And we've
put some conditions on it.
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