Longtime Aggies Slocum, Pickard eagerly await Kyle Field renovation - Chron.com
Slocum coached in more games at Kyle than anyone in Aggies history. "Take the old restrooms - all we did was get complaints from fans about them being dirty," said Pickard, who started at A&M as a student trainer under coach Bear Bryant in the early 1950s and has worked on the site almost entirely since in a... "You had people going to Texans games and Astros games and Cowboys games and Rangers games, and all of those facilities were so much newer than Kyle Field. Slocum, who coached 30 years at A&M as an assistant and head coach, chuckled when describing the coaching staff's shower setup, long before the luxurious Bright Football Complex opened on the south end of Kyle in 2003. "Our shower area was... There were only two shower heads, so all of the coaches had to take turns taking showers. The university rebuilt the east side and added a three-deck south side last offseason, as part of a $450 million renovation scheduled for completion in time for the 2015 season. That means dropping the 10-story west side with explosives, carting off the rubble and putting the final touches on what should be one of college football's jewels with three new decks loaded with amenities. Source: www.chron.com
