In a 2020 interview, Coastal athletic director Matt Hogue, who began working at the school in 1997 as Coastal's basketball play-by-play announcer, told ESPN journalist Ryan McGee,When I started working here, that was the location of Conway High School's football stadium.

But it sat there empty for seven or eight months between their last game and our groundbreaking, so it was completely overgrown with weeds and watermelons.

[5] The stadium was formally dedicated on September 6, 2003, as the Chanticleer football team opened its inaugural game vs. Newberry College in front of a crowd of more than 8,000.

The NCAA requires FBS programs to maintain an average attendance of at least 15,000 over a rolling two-year cycle.

The expansion project received approval from the state in November 2015, but construction was not expected to begin until January 2017.

It was originally named for brothers Mark and Will Adkins (Coastal Carolina '89), who planned to donate $1.5 million to the project.