New football facility also means big changes for Nebraska track program; Moos calls it a 'win-win' situation

Nebraska track coach Gary Pepin wasn’t part of the meetings about the location of a new athletic department facility that will be the home of the football team, but he had an idea the site of the school’s outdoor track and field stadium was in jeopardy.

“If they were going to put in a new football complex they didn’t have many places to go,” Pepin told the Journal Star on Friday. "I felt like you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to guess where it was going to go if they wanted to keep it even close to anything."

The footprint of the new facility will sit on part of the current location of Ed Weir Track, the outdoor home of the men’s and women’s track teams for practice and a few meets…