As music fans snap up tickets for BTS’s two-night stop at Sun Bowl Stadium this May and a tour stop featuring Post Malone and Jelly Roll days later, the University of Texas at El Paso’s landmark stadium is drawing some of the biggest names in music.
The concerts follow two sold-out Coldplay performances last June. They also come less than two years after UTEP leaders asked El Paso County to take a $99 million bond proposal to voters to upgrade the stadium — a request county commissioners declined.
UTEP President Heather Wilson recently told El Paso Matters that the university continues to look for ways to improve the stadium using existing resources, though she did not say whether the university plans to renew its request for public funding…