Commonwealth Stadium

In an attempt to find my final subject matter I have looked up the official page for Commonwealth Stadium on the University of Kentucky Athletic Department webpage. The department are the maintainers of the site and the specific page can be found at this address: http://www.ukathletics.com/athletic-dept/commonwealth-stadium.html

The webpage is set up as an informative and quite linear article that outlines the history of Commonwealth and a brief inlet into the role it has had with the football program. Built and opened in 1973, Commonwealth Stadium has been home to the wildcats for 41 years now, seeing them host a, by our standards, impressive 107-95-4 home record. It goes on to talk about how the cats came to get a win in their inaugural game in the stadium, as well as mentioning how many people have been through the gates to watch games since its creation, 12,040,330 and counting.

This source does a very good job of giving you an aesthetic for the stadium, lending you the bare bones knowledge that a passerby may want, yet it fails in the respect of delving deeper into the overall purposes of Commonwealth and what it means to the community. Indeed, it gives numbers on football games which hints towards the amount of traffic that the stadium receives. Now, it is no secret that the football team for the University of Kentucky can be a bit underwhelming, especially in recent years, but the fact that we have come out above .500 winning percentage also links back to the community of the stadium and how such a, supposedly, good atmosphere and crowd can propel even a football team of their likeness to victory. I would like to know what other things Commonwealth has been a venue to, and why it is overlooked as a quality stadium.