{"id":1985,"date":"2013-06-26T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:00:14","slug":"expansion-projects-underway-at-allen-e-paulson-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2013\/06\/26\/expansion-projects-underway-at-allen-e-paulson-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Expansion Projects Underway at Allen E. Paulson Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"550\" height=\"413\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fgeorgiasouthern%2Fsets%2F72157634249527226%2Fshow%2Fwith%2F9099287101%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fgeorgiasouthern%2Fsets%2F72157634249527226%2Fwith%2F9099287101%2F&#038;set_id=72157634249527226&#038;jump_to=9099287101\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=124984\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=124984\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fgeorgiasouthern%2Fsets%2F72157634249527226%2Fshow%2Fwith%2F9099287101%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fgeorgiasouthern%2Fsets%2F72157634249527226%2Fwith%2F9099287101%2F&#038;set_id=72157634249527226&#038;jump_to=9099287101\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Extensive improvements are underway at Allen E. Paulson Stadium as the Eagles move up to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) in 2014 and begin playing in the Sun Belt Conference. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in early June for the privately funded $10 million Football Operations Center (FOC), and the construction of an additional 6,200 seats.<\/p>\n<p>The 50,000-square-foot FOC will have state-of-the-art features and facilities including offices for the football coaches, locker rooms, workout facilities, meeting space and a Hall of Fame exhibit to highlight the rich history of the Eagles and the team\u2019s legendary players. Last year, Georgia Southern students voted to pay a $75 fee to fund the move to FBS and a $25 fee for stadium expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University Leaders Break Ground for $10 million Football Operations Center and Expansion to Paulson Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-summer-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}