With a little more than a week remaining until the Lawrence High football team kicks off the season at its new, on-campus home, administrators at LHS have begun to make preparations for a new football experience.

A few things about the LHS football season will remain the same. For starters, tickets will be $5 for adults and $3 for students. Any high school student who purchased an activity ticket will be admitted free. Those are the same prices to get into soccer and volleyball games at LHS this fall, as well.

That’s about where the similarities end, though.

Although the new stadium keeps creeping closer to completion, LHS athletic director Ron Commons said the school would need the public’s understanding for the first few games.

The LHS soccer team officially opens the new facility Tuesday with its home opener against Junction City. For that game, as well as the football team’s home opener against Shawnee Mission North — 7 p.m., Sept. 4 — the only seating available will be on the home side, which is located on the west side of the stadium.

For both games, portable rest rooms and a makeshift concessions stand will be located somewhere near the southeast entrance. For the first few weeks, that entrance will provide the only access to the stadium.

“It’s not a perfect scenario,” Commons said. “But it is a step in the right direction, and it’ll work for Game One.”

The only other concern regarding the opening weeks is the parking situation, particularly for football games. Commons said LHS had sent out bus routes and suggested parking arrangements to opposing schools. The hope is that LHS supporters will park in the northeast parking lot off of 19th Street and that visiting fans will park in the south parking lot, along 21st Street, where the tennis courts used to be.

“We’re trying to get as much parking off of the streets as possible,” Commons said.

The plan, Commons said, is for construction crews to maximize their efforts during the next week to get the stadium as close to ready as possible.

Across town at Free State High, similar arrangements are being made, but FSHS athletic director Mike Hill said plans had not been finalized for the Firebirds’ home games.

Free State football opens its home season on Sept. 18. The FSHS soccer team will play its first home game Sept. 14.