Social media reacts to renderings for Kansas football stadium renovations

Find out the best social media reactions from Jayhawks fans, players, and others to the renderings and timeline of the Kansas football gateway project.

Renderings for the much-anticipated Kansas Jayhawks Campus Gateway project were released on Friday, and social media (for the most part) was loving it.

David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium will be receiving more than $300 million in facility upgrades for the revamp. Construction begins in December of 2023 and is expected to be completed by 2025.

Kansas AD Travis Goff has left a substantial mark on the Kansas football program, during his short tenure with the university. If memorial stadium wanted to make it through the next few years, a project like this needed to ensue. It had been a lower-tier Big 12 football stadium for decades, but the renovations should make it one of the most electric places to play in the Midwest.

While KU is on the upswing in football, some folks were not pleased with the stadium renderings. Nicknames such as “the bird cage” or “crown rib roast stadium” have risen due to the new light structures being implemented that tower over the stadium.

Regardless of your opinion on how the stadium appears, no one can deny the wonders it will do for the Kansas football program. Even KU alumni are taking notice.

“We’re on the rise. You can feel it in the air as soon as you come in here,” former Kansas football standout and four-time NFL Pro Bowler Chris Harris Jr. said. “We’re doing something different, something next level.”

We’ll note that there were plenty of angry K-State fans on social media complaining that the project is being funded by their taxpayer dollars, but that simply isn’t true, so it is not even worth acknowledging.

These were some of the best reactions on Twitter (now called X):

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