"Oh the sun shinin' on your skin, wish I could be the lake you're swimmin' in." -Brad Paisley
The $485 million Kyle Field redevelopment is almost complete, with all construction due to be finished before Texas A&M's first home game against Ball State on Saturday, Sept. 12. But there's one addition to the area around Kyle Field that will apparently come in 2016: A lake.
Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp spoke at a meeting of the Beaumont Rotary Club last month, and according to the Beaumont Business Journal, "Sharp said the university recently received money from a donor to add a lake to the east side of Kyle Field for tailgating that will probably be ready for use in 2016.