The dirt sits.
Next week the Governor and the Cabinet will vote to give twenty-two acres of the college ground to the men who want to build a house for the team with a kite for a roof. I think the grass is a cushion. With some reservations I wonder if the students will find a place to study when the "Champions Quarter" rises in the southeast corner near the football bowl where the Buccaneers play.
The cost is two billion dollars. The team says they will spend eight or ten billion dollars on shops and hotels and a place called "The Canopy" while asking the county to pay for half of the stadium bill. The space is a squeeze. But the Cabinet must change the rules first and look at seventy acres of college land to see if the "Innovation Edge" can grow where the weeds touch the sky and the Yankees play their games.
The roof is a shell. In the pictures released earlier this month the stadium has thirty-one thousand seats and a top made of glass that lets the sun in while keeping the rain off the hot dogs and the jerseys and the heads of the fans. The keys belong to the town. Yahoo Sports says the county will own the building and lease it to the team so the people who pay for the bricks can keep the land in their own names.
I’m leaning towards the plan. This hits home for me because students need a patch of grass to think. And the "Champions Quarter" will be a place for crowds and cheers and lights that blink when the moon takes the sky. The dirt will move. The college will change when the hammers hit the nails and the trucks bring the steel to the Dale Mabry campus in April 2029.
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