East Carolina's Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Is the Gem of C-USA Venues

Rising above the flat terrain of Greenville, NC, there is a building that dominates the skyline. It is easily the largest structure in the city of 100,000, and it is owned by one of the city's largest employers. The employer is East Carolina University, but the building is not the Joyner Library or The Brody School of Medicine—both of which are impressive in their own right. The structure referred to is Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, and it is home to the East Carolina Pirates football team. Dowdy-Ficklen may not hold 100,000 people like Michigan Stadium or the Rose Bowl, but it is a beautiful structure with all the amenities college football fans want. When former University of Virginia basketball coach Terry Holland was hired as ECU's Athletics Director in 2004, he wanted ECU to have top-notch facilities. Since then, the press box has been remodeled and more luxury boxes were added, as well as improving seating in other areas, and upgrading other facilities. Between the 2008...