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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Missouri State's Sun Belt Resume



Missouri State:


 Plaster Sports Complex

School Founded: 1905

Location: Springfield, MO

Football Founded: 1909

Current Conference: Missouri Valley

Facilities: 16,000 seat Plaster Sports Complex.

Home of the Missouri State football, track and field, soccer and field hockey teams, Plaster Sports Complex (PSC) was completed in 1992 and seats 16,300 spectators. The former "Briggs Stadium" is a multi-use facility for the purpose of supporting recreational and educational needs of Missouri State University students, faculty and staff members as well as providing facilities for hosting intercollegiate athletic contests in football, track and field, soccer and field hockey.


The stadium's football field was replaced in 2006 with a state-of-the-art Field Turf Synthetic Grass surface that provides an all-weather soft surface on game day. It is also an excellent surface for completing warm-ups, cool-downs, running drills, strides and various other training activities.

In the summer of 2008 a nearly-$2 million jumbo-tron scoreboard was added to the facility allowing for replays, graphics, live statistics and instant posting of results for various athletic events.

As a track and field facility, PSC includes an 8-lane synthetic all-weather track surface, an outside steeplechase pit, two-runways and four sand pits for long and triple jump and recently-upgraded high jump and pole vault mats and standards.


TV Market(s): Springfield (74th TV Market)

All-time Record: 631-408-40  0 conference titles.

Claimed National Championships: None.

Student Population: 21,059 total.


Endowment: $59.9 Million

Athletic Budget:  $9.0 million

FBS Aspirations: There are talks about a stadium expansion in the near future but there is very little information from reliable sources about the possibility of a jump to the FBS in either the Sun Belt or any of the other conferences. The Bears would fit best toward the Sun Belt or MAC if they put forth the money to move up.


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