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John Stiegelmeier was one week away from the start of his 32nd season as a South Dakota State football coach. He was an assistant for nine years and will open his 23rd as head coach against the Gophers on Thursday night at TCF Bank Stadium.
The Jackrabbits will receive a $425,000 guarantee for what’s become a traditional early road game against an FBS opponent.
Stiegelmeier was in his corner office at the Dykhouse Student-Athlete Center that opened in 2010 as a facility to house the Jackrabbits’ football team. There is an office wall facing the football stadium that is all glass.
“This is proof there are miracles,’’ said Stiegelmeier, as he took in the view on a gorgeous blue afternoon on the prairie.
The proof was not as strong for the first five seasons after Stiegelmeier and his team moved into this building, since the view featured Coughlin-Alumni Stadium, a facility dating to 1962.
The Jackrabbits played the 2014 and 2015 seasons as a portion of the old stadium was being demolished and, in September 2016, the new Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium — sparkling, with suites and holding close to 20,000 — opened with a price tag of $65 million.
http://www.startribune.com/south-da...th-big-ten-commitment-backing-them/558338502/
Go Gophers!!
John Stiegelmeier was one week away from the start of his 32nd season as a South Dakota State football coach. He was an assistant for nine years and will open his 23rd as head coach against the Gophers on Thursday night at TCF Bank Stadium.
The Jackrabbits will receive a $425,000 guarantee for what’s become a traditional early road game against an FBS opponent.
Stiegelmeier was in his corner office at the Dykhouse Student-Athlete Center that opened in 2010 as a facility to house the Jackrabbits’ football team. There is an office wall facing the football stadium that is all glass.
“This is proof there are miracles,’’ said Stiegelmeier, as he took in the view on a gorgeous blue afternoon on the prairie.
The proof was not as strong for the first five seasons after Stiegelmeier and his team moved into this building, since the view featured Coughlin-Alumni Stadium, a facility dating to 1962.
The Jackrabbits played the 2014 and 2015 seasons as a portion of the old stadium was being demolished and, in September 2016, the new Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium — sparkling, with suites and holding close to 20,000 — opened with a price tag of $65 million.
http://www.startribune.com/south-da...th-big-ten-commitment-backing-them/558338502/
Go Gophers!!
