Taking Football Indoors

With groundbreaking scheduled for later this month, the Jay and Jenny Allison Indoor Football Practice Facility will be ready for use by the time the Baylor football team begins preseason camp next August.
At Homecoming, the Baylor Board of Regents announced a significant lead gift from alumni Jay, BBA '78, MS '80, JD '81, and Jenny Reid Allison, BS '78, MS '80. The new $12.1-million facility, which will be constructed with private funds, will be located adjacent to the two natural grass practice fields on the marina side of the Alwin O. and Dorothy Highers Athletic Complex. The indoor facility will feature a 100-yard field with a synthetic playing surface. 
"I am deeply appreciative of Jay and Jenny Allison making the generous naming gift that enabled this project to come to fruition," said Baylor Director of Athletics Ian McCaw. "The Jay and Jenny Allison Indoor Football Practice Facility will afford Coach Briles, his staff and student-athletes one of the best indoor practice facilities in the Big 12 and nation. I am grateful to the Board of Regents and Interim President David Garland for the strong support that they afford Baylor Athletics and our football program."
"It is humbling that a former Baylor football letterman wanted to give back by helping provide a facility that will serve future Bears for many years to come," Baylor head football coach Art Briles said.
"Playing football under Coach Grant Teaff taught me to continue to give my best--no matter what," said Jay Allison, a three-time Baylor football letterman who played for Baylor's 1974 Southwest Conference championship team. "We love Baylor football and want to help the Bears give their best at each and every game. And that starts at practice.
"We're proud to leave this Baylor legacy for our children and grandchildren. Everything we have belongs to God, so we're pleased to honor Him by serving Baylor."
The Jay and Jenny Allison Football Practice Facility is part of the $46.2-million Highers Athletics Complex, a cornerstone in Baylor Athletics' five-year, $90-million Victory With Integrity campaign which was launched in February 2005. To date, more than $65 million has been raised through the campaign in capital, endowment and annual support.