Stadium Central

Boy, have I been sleeping on the job. I am getting ready for a nice trip to the Cleveland area, rife with the excitement of getting to visit two FBS College football stadiums in the Northeast Ohio area that I have not yet seen, those being the stadiums for the University of Akron and Kent State. The MidAmerican Conference is one which is sorely lacking in my list of visited stadiums, so it would be nice to get some of these under my belt. So, when looking into the Rubber Bowl, I find that it is closed. What is going on? To my surprise, I find out that the University of Akron will be moving into a new on-campus stadium for the 2009 season. I definitely am humbled by this oversight!

The new InfoCision Stadium -- Summa Field will open on Akron's campus, bringing football back to the campus. A quick search revealed that InfoCision is a telemarketing firm based in Akron...not sure how much goodwill the company will gain from the fans used to getting calls at 7 pm by lending their name to this project. The stadium will seat 30,000 and will include 522 club seats, 152 loge seats, and 17 suites according to information provided on the Akron Athletics Department's website. Like many of the stadiums in the Mid American Conference and like the Rubber Bowl that the Zips used to call home, the playing field will be a synthetic one.