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Good morning, everyone! Today's the day we pick our seats at the University of Tulsa's newly redesigned Chapman Stadium. For those of you familiar with the campus, this is the same stadium that used to be named Skelly Stadium. In the redesign, it will now be "Skelly Field at Chapman Stadium".

As you can see in the link, the new stadium will have a much smaller seating capacity. They have already removed all that scaffolding-like west-side upper-deck and press box. It had been there for 40-some odd years and it always looked temporary to me. The stadium proper will be back to the original, stone-built dimensions, and the new press box will also house some sky boxes and a Club Level. Most all of the seats in the "common folk" areas will also be larger and have chair backs, too.

Many of you have probably been through this reseating process at other venues. There is some arcane process whereby you get credit for years you've held your old seats (but only back to 1992), whether you are an alum, and (of course) how much you've contributed. Our old seats, on the 47-yard line and 25 rows up, have been in the family since right after World War II, but our last name isn't "Chapman" or "QuikTrip", so we probably will lose some yardage, but we'll see.

Wish me luck!