This isn't just a story about one program spending big. It's a preview of where sports facilities, at every level, are heading. From the Ducks' 170,000-square-foot indoor building to the community academies watching from the sidelines, 2026 is a good year to ask: what does facility growth actually require?
This article covers the latest on Oregon's marquee project, the broader campus facilities landscape, why this spending is happening nationally, and — importantly — what smaller Oregon facilities can take away from it.
Key Takeaways
- Oregon's new "2.Mo" indoor practice facility spans 170,000 square feet and is expected to finish in 2027
- College facility construction hit a record $2.4 billion in 2025, according to HVS
- Bigger facilities mean bigger scheduling headaches, even for major programs during construction transitions
- Smaller Oregon facilities can apply the same growth principles without the massive price tag
Oregon Ducks' New Indoor Practice Facility: The Biggest Update of 2026
The project everyone's talking about is nicknamed 2.Mo, and the numbers are hard to ignore.
The specs:
- 170,000 square feet total
- 130,000 square feet of indoor field space
- 40,000-square-foot connector linking to the existing Hatfield-Dowlin Complex
- Nearly 100 feet tall at its highest point
According to Ducks Wire's August 2025 report, the building is being described as the biggest indoor football practice facility in the nation, a claim also echoed by Sports Illustrated. That's a reported comparison, not an independently audited ranking, but it gives you a sense of the scale.
What's Inside
The connector piece isn't just a hallway. Reports point to several additions beyond the field itself:
- Expanded weight room
- Players' lounge overlooking the field
- Rooftop lounge
- Extra classroom and meeting space for game planning and film review
Construction Timeline and Temporary Arrangements
While 2.Mo goes up west of Autzen Stadium, the Ducks have been practicing at Rich Brooks Field inside Autzen Stadium and at the Moshofsky Center. Completion is targeted for 2027.
Head coach Dan Lanning has been vocal about what this means. He called the finished project "a game changer" for player experience, adding that the completed sports science and development spaces would be "hard for anybody in the nation to touch." He also put the total football footprint once 2.Mo opens at roughly 500,000 square feet, combining the new building with existing structures.
Funding is entirely private philanthropy, managed by the UO Foundation. No specific dollar figure has been publicly confirmed; OregonLive has reported that the donor-funded project's exact cost remains unclear.
University of Oregon's Broader Athletic Facilities Landscape
Oregon's newest project doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's the latest chapter in a facilities story that started over a decade ago.
Hatfield-Dowlin Complex (2013): This 145,000-square-foot football operations building, funded by Phil Knight at an estimated $68 million, set a national standard when it opened. It's still central to Oregon's football operations today.
Autzen Stadium: Seats 54,000, up from an original capacity of 41,698. Expansion talk continues. John Canzano's October 2025 reporting flagged premium seating upgrades and stadium growth as ongoing topics, though nothing formal has been approved.
Other key facilities:
- Moshofsky Center — existing indoor practice venue, currently doing double duty during construction
- Marcus Mariota Sports Performance Center — a 30,000-square-foot renovation completed in 2016
The Land Swap That Made It Possible
Back in 2023 and formalized in early 2024, the University of Oregon and the City of Eugene signed a land swap agreement. UO gained acreage near Autzen for practice fields; the city received land along the Willamette River plus community investment.
Per The Register-Guard, the agreement requires all UO facilities under the deal to be completed by December 31, 2029 — a hard deadline on an already ambitious timeline.
Nearly every major Oregon athletics project traces back to private donors, not university operating budgets or public funds. That's a distinction worth remembering as facility conversations spread beyond Eugene.
Why Facility Upgrades Are Trending Across Oregon and the Nation
This isn't an Oregon-only phenomenon. It's national, and it's accelerating.
Completed college stadium construction projects hit a record $2.4 billion in 2025, double the 2024 total, according to HVS. Sports Business Journal confirmed the same benchmark. That's real money chasing recruiting advantages and athlete experience upgrades.
Why the arms race? A few forces are converging:
- Recruiting pressure — top athletes increasingly choose programs based on facility quality
- NIL era expectations — players expect professional-grade training environments
- Sports science investment — programs want dedicated space for recovery, nutrition, and performance analytics
None of this stays contained at the college level. Youth academies, training centers, and community sports complexes across Oregon are feeling the same pull. Parents and athletes compare facilities the way they compare schools. A complex with better turf, more field space, or newer equipment has a competitive edge — even at the youth level.
The Operational Challenge Behind Growing Sports Facilities
Here's what doesn't make the headlines: bigger facilities create bigger scheduling problems.
Oregon's own temporary arrangement is a perfect example. While construction has been underway, the football program has had to consolidate practices between Autzen Stadium and the Moshofsky Center. Two programs, shared spaces, one schedule to manage. Even with Oregon's resources, that's a coordination challenge.
Now imagine a facility with:
- Multiple fields, courts, or cages running simultaneously
- Rentals booked alongside member lessons and camps
- Maintenance windows that need to block availability
- Staff trying to track it all on spreadsheets or a shared calendar
That complexity scales fast as facilities expand. Add one more field, and you don't just add one more schedule. You add every possible conflict between that field and everything else happening on-site.
This is the problem eSoft Planner was built to solve. The platform was founded by people who ran a sports training facility and got tired of forcing spreadsheets to do a scheduling system's job.
Its rental module is built for multi-space operations, whether you run one field or fifteen:
- Publishes real-time availability by location and time
- Lets managers block maintenance periods
- Prevents double bookings before they happen
Facilities like Center St. Louis, which manages six retractable batting cages alongside courts used for volleyball, basketball, and even MMA events, rely on this kind of real-time visibility to avoid scheduling collisions across very different uses of the same space.
What This Means for Smaller Oregon Sports Facilities and Academies
Few Oregon facilities will ever need a 170,000-square-foot building. But the underlying lesson scales down just fine.
The real takeaway is plan smarter, not spend more. Whether you're running a swim club in Bend or a baseball academy outside Portland, the same principles apply:
- Maximize the space you already have — combine courts, stagger bookings, and treat every hour of availability as inventory
- Plan operational systems before you need them — don't wait until you've outgrown your scheduling process to fix it
- Improve the athlete and customer experience — even small upgrades to booking convenience matter to families choosing where to enroll their kids
Facilities managing multiple batting cages, courts, or program types often reach a point where manual scheduling breaks down. MVP, a baseball facility running nine separate batting cages, solved this by letting customers book individual cages or groups — like cages 1 through 3 — through a real-time system rather than a phone-and-notebook approach.
A la carte growth matters here. eSoft Planner's modular system starts at $39 a month and lets facilities add only what they need:
- Lessons for private instruction
- Camps & Classes for group programs
- Memberships for recurring revenue
- Rentals for space bookings
As a facility grows, it adds modules instead of replacing the whole system. Pricing stays flat regardless of member count, which matters when competing platforms tack on $100 to $200 monthly for the same growth.
If your facility is eyeing an expansion, even a modest one, this is the moment to evaluate whether your current booking system can actually keep up.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Oregon's new football training facility located?
The 2.Mo facility is being built just west of Autzen Stadium in Eugene, between Leo Harris Parkway and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, on the site of the Ducks' former outdoor practice fields.
How much is Oregon's new practice facility?
No confirmed public cost figure exists yet. The University of Oregon has stated the project is funded entirely through private philanthropy via the UO Foundation, and OregonLive has reported the exact cost remains unclear.
What are the athletic facilities at the University of Oregon?
Key facilities include the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex, Autzen Stadium (54,000 seats), the Moshofsky Center, the Marcus Mariota Sports Performance Center, and the upcoming 2.Mo indoor practice building.
When will Oregon's new indoor practice facility be completed?
Construction is targeted for completion in 2027. Until then, the team is using Autzen Stadium's Rich Brooks Field and the Moshofsky Center for practices.
How big will Oregon's new practice facility be compared to other college programs?
At nearly 100 feet tall with 130,000 square feet of field space, it's been reported by outlets like Ducks Wire and Sports Illustrated as the largest indoor football practice facility in the nation — a widely cited claim, though not independently audited.
