UNT head coach Todd Dodge expects the Mean Green to keep up by building a new football stadium to replace an antiquated Fouts Field.

“Coach [Rick] Villarreal told me that we would have a stadium by 2010 when he hired me,” Dodge said. “They have a lot of jobs to do and the information does not always come out as quickly as they would like, but I have confidence in coach Villarreal and his team that it is going to get done.”

Fouts Field was built in 1952 and lacks the amenities several of the stadiums the Mean Green’s rivals in the Sun Belt and across Texas enjoy. Nearly every Sun Belt team is in the process of improving its facilities or building new stadiums.