Saddleback College breaks ground on $55 million football stadium

For Saddleback College head football coach Mark McElroy, plans to construct a new football stadium at the school’s Mission Viejo campus were a long time coming.
“I played here as a student-athlete in 1979 when we were promised a new stadium,” McElroy said.
Just shy of four decades later, that promise is now being fulfilled, with a new $55 million facility expected to open in the spring of next year. The college broke ground on the project Monday, March 12.
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