Now with the finishing touches complete on the approximately $900,000 project to replace the UNI-Dome’s decade-old turf, Northern Iowa’s director of athletics can smile with pride on a well-executed project.
“It represents our commitment that our student-athletes have what they need to be able to compete at a high level and our responsibility to try to give them all the support we possibly can,” Harris said last week. “We can’t go out and make any blocks or make any tackles or throw any passes, and as a 45-year-old I don’t think anybody wants to see me do those things, but these are the kind of things we can do to give our young men a chance to go out on the football field and be successful.