Groundbreaking.

At the request of the Hoeppner family, the show went on today. IU broke ground on the north end zone expansion of Memorial Stadium today. The H-T's Hoosier Scoop blog live-blogged it. Memorial Stadium will go from this:

To this:

Until told otherwise, I will refer to the north end zone building as the Hoeppner Center. In various forms and levels of detail, this project has been on the drawing board for years. It is no coincidence that this expansion moved beyond the idea stage during the Hep era.