When Kansas State takes off for Baylor next week crews will move into the Vanier Football Complex and beginning moving everything out and it will be demolished beginning December 8th.

Prior to the Purple White Spring game in April the University announced the next phase of the Bill Snyder Family Stadium master plan, reshaping the north end zone with a new Vanier Football Complex.

The $69 million project will feature a new academic learning center, double the size of the current facility, a new 18,000 square foot Olympic-quality Strength and Conditioning Center which will include multi-story ceilings with natural light, and a nutrition center or “fueling station” for all student athletes. A new sports medicine and recovery facility will house new state of the art hydrotherapy and recovery pools along with the latest examination, recovery and physical therapy space and tools.

“This structure, when it’s complete in August of 2015, will represent $194 million of construction at K-State completed in about 48 months,” said John Currie, Athletic Director. “Just in football you’re talking about $155 million on this quadrant, so to speak. Even though, I hesitate to say just in football because it’s not just for football. Our training table is for all of our student athletes, the academic learning center in this new building will be for all of our student athletes.”

The academic learning center and coaches offices will be temporarily moved to the West Stadium Center while the new Vanier Football Complex is under construction.

Additional plans call for a new structure on the north east side of the new facility by either the 2016 or 2017 season. That new structure would house the visiting team locker room, training and officials areas, plus additional office space. A new video board would also be placed on the northeast end of the stadium and will mirror a new board that is expected to immediately go up on the northwest side of the stadium.