Lawrence Tech football coming in 2018
"Lawrence Technological University's decision to relaunch a football program after 70 years is part of the Southfield-based school's business strategy to remold itself into a traditional residential college.
Football, the thinking goes, can build a cadre of loyal alumni whose school spirit, fueled by memories of bucolic gridiron Saturdays, may be willing to write checks to their beloved alma mater.
So, the private university announced last week that it will field a football team in 2018 for the first time since the end of World War II, and that it has hired former Culver-Stockton College head coach Jeff Duvendeck as the first head coach of the Blue Devils football team.
His hiring is part of a $1.2 million budget to launch the football program, a cost that will include three full-time assistants and the purchase of equipment and uniforms, said Kevin Finn, LTU's dean of students.
Lawrence Tech will deploy a capital campaign to raise money for an $8 million to $10 million football stadium. Last year, an anonymous donor gave Lawrence Tech $1 million to cover the cost of an 88,000-square-foot synthetic grass field from Dalton, Ga.-based AstroTurf LLC. The field was finished in September, and is lined for football, soccer and lacrosse, and has a sand and rubber in-fill base."
Source: Bill Shea, Crain's Business, 1/27/2017
January 27th, 2017 at 9:23 PM ^
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January 27th, 2017 at 9:47 PM ^
trust me.
Go Blue Devils! Go Coach K!
January 27th, 2017 at 10:08 PM ^
I've heard reports that they are going to deck over the expressway by LTU and develop a more walkable "downtown" there. If that happens and LTU really expands their residency population Southfield could become a pretty neat place.
(Not trying to dog Southfield. There's some pretty cool stuff over there but having to drive literally everywhere is not really what the kids are looking for)
January 28th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^
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January 27th, 2017 at 10:25 PM ^
I was wondering why they put in that football field.
January 27th, 2017 at 11:27 PM ^
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January 27th, 2017 at 11:08 PM ^
The Fightin' Larrys. Awesome!
January 28th, 2017 at 1:01 AM ^
I took a few night school classes there between undergrad & grad school. I never knew the school had a nickname.
January 27th, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
I don't like this. It just creates another pool of players for MSU to flip late in the cycle. Damnit.
January 27th, 2017 at 11:42 PM ^
All these new logos look like they were designed by the same firm. Meanwhile, classics like the Block M remain the best.
January 28th, 2017 at 1:49 AM ^
January 28th, 2017 at 6:38 AM ^
Hard to believe that LT's alumni base is unable/unwilling to contribute money to the school just because it doesn't have a football team.
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January 29th, 2017 at 2:47 AM ^
Good for them. I was a summer intern at GM when I was at Michigan and they housed us at LTI.
Compared to Michigan, it did not feel like a "university" at all. It really did feel like a "technical institute."
Maybe this will help.