Aug 09, 2014 01:00 AM
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It was early Friday morning, and Sheahon Zenger stepped away from his office and made the short jaunt across campus to Memorial Stadium. It was a cool summer morning, relatively speaking, and a large throng of Kansas football players were up early for the first day of camp.
Zenger, the fourth-year Kansas athletic director, was hoping to track the progress of a $500,000 upgrade inside Memorial Stadium, a minor facelift that includes the removal of the running track. But as an old football man himself, Zenger was also naturally curious about the evolution of another rebuilding project: The one on the field.
“I have used the word in recent months,” Zenger says, “we need momentum.”