COLUMBIA, Mo. — Rising increasingly higher over the northern end of Missouri’s Faurot Field are steel beams that aren’t quite a silver bullet.
Work on a new north concourse has progressed steadily in recent months. Excavation that revealed much of the playing surface to cars passing by along Stadium Boulevard has yielded to a metallic skeleton hinting at what’s to come.
The $250 million project won’t be completed until the 2026 football season. At that point, Mizzou leadership hopes it’ll be helpful in stadium atmosphere, football recruiting and revenue generation.
Those first two aspects are fairly simple.