“In an effort to provide the best competitive home field advantage for the Mizzou football team, the athletic department has been studying the possibility of switching the team benches at Memorial Stadium for the 2017 season, however, no decision has been made on this matter.
“Should the department elect to flip the benches, Mizzou would also be required to adjust its student seating areas between the 30-yard lines to comply with SEC rules requiring that the seating in the first 25 rows inside the 30-yard lines behind the visitors bench be non-student seating.
“As part of this process, we invited leaders from nine campus organizations to meet with Coach Odom and members of our athletic staff last week to discuss this purposed concept. We plan on having another meeting with these same leaders in the near future before making a decision by the end of the spring 2017 semester.”
