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The student body increased their fee to fund it...

Though, quite a few Lamar faithful are floating around numbers of $$$ that apparently do not exist...

http://collegesportingnews.com/article.asp?articleid=90238

CSN West: Lamar Cardinals Reincarnation?

Kent Schmidt, CSN Columnist

Beaumont, Texas is a city of 115,570, and that community has been waiting for a February day such as we had last Wednesday — one of college football’s biggest days with its national signing day — for a long time.

Why? Beaumont has been without a Division I college football team for nearly two decades after Lamar University dropped its football program following the 1989 season.

That drought for those Texas community football-hungry residents appears close to ending.
“Yes, I am very much in favor of the return of football to Lamar,” said Lamar athletic director Billy Tubbs, the former Cardinal, Oklahoma and Texas Christian University basketball coach...

bump...

thanks to TT and Katfans.com...

http://www.panews.com/sports/local_story_148222022.html?keyword=topstory

Lamar's grid return pleases SLC boss

By Tom Halliburton
The Port Arthur News

HUNTSVILLE — Southland Conference commissioner Tom Burnett said he was delighted to see Lamar University reinstating football after a 20-year absence.

Burnett remembered Lamar football from his collegiate days at Louisiana Tech. The league's commissioner in the north Dallas suburb of Frisco, Burnett was elated when he talked about Lamar's intent to revive football...

article mainly on Lamar Football

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/072508/spo_0725080021.shtml

Lamar re-institutes football with great energy





HOUSTON For much of the afternoon Tuesday, Ray Woodard sat by himself at a table well away from the spotlight reading preseason media guides and talking on a cell phone.

Woodard, the friendly, new Lamar University football coach, had more of a distance presence at Southland Conference Media Days. But he's a major face in the league's future.

This year, Woodard joked he could bring no players for preseason interviews because he really has none.

He's building on a dream a big, long-awaited dream....

http://lamarcardinals.cstv.com/genrel/111008aaa.html

Lamar University's Cardinal Stadium becomes Provost Umphrey Stadium
$4 million donation from Provost Umphrey Law Firm and Umphrey family

Nov. 10, 2008

Lamar University's football stadium will have a new name when the Cardinals return to the gridiron for the 2010 season, officials announced today.

The stadium will become Provost Umphrey Stadium in recognition of a $3 million contribution to Lamar University from the firm and an additional $1 million gift from Walter and Sheila Umphrey, said James Simmons, president of the university. The gifts will "enable the university to move ahead with the return of a competitive football program," Simmons said...

from TT over on an AGS.com thread:

Lamar has begun the process of overhauling everything to do with their football facility. Their new Pressbox has already been completed or close to it, I believe. Now, new turf and a new locker room facility is now being constructed...

Lamar has released their 2010 Football Schedule:

http://www.lamarcardinals.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/081409aaa.html

Lamar to Play Six Home Games in 2010 Football Season

Cardinals face eight Division I FCS schools

Aug. 14, 2009

2010 Lamar Football Schedule

Lamar University completed its football schedule for 2010 Friday with the addition of Panhandle State as the Cardinals' 11th opponent for the school's first season of competition since 1989.

"We are certainly happy to finalize our schedule for what we believe will be a truly exciting season for our students and the entire community," said Billy Tubbs, Lamar's director of athletics. "We are particularly happy to have six home games and only five on the road."...


09/04/10 at McNeese State Lake Charles, La. TBA
09/11/10 vs. Webber International Provost Umphrey Stadium TBA
09/18/10 at Southeastern Louisiana Hammond, La. TBA
09/25/10 at Stephen F. Austin Nacogdoches, Texas TBA
10/02/10 vs. Sam Houston State Provost Umphrey Stadium TBA
10/09/10 vs. Langston Provost Umphrey Stadium TBA
10/16/10 vs. South Alabama Provost Umphrey Stadium TBA
10/30/10 at North Dakota Grand Forks, N.D. TBA
11/06/10 at Georgia State Atlanta, Ga. TBA
11/13/10 vs. South Dakota Provost Umphrey Stadium TBA
11/20/10 vs. Oklahoma Panhandle State Provost Umphrey Stadium TBA