OMAHA, NEB. - Historic Rosenblatt Stadium has become a favorite postseason destination for North Carolina's baseball team. But next fall, the Tar Heels are looking forward to returning home. Athletic director Dick Baddour said earlier this week that the yearlong renovation to Boshamer Stadium on UNC's Chapel Hill campus is pretty much on schedule and definitely on budget ($25.5 million), and that it should be complete by September or October.

Plans were already in the works to update the Bosh before the Tar Heels' three straight trips to the College World Series, "but I think perhaps what our program has done the last two or three years has just spurred us on and helped us raise more money," coach Mike Fox said recently. "It probably would have been more of a struggle."

Before leaving for Omaha, Fox drove by the old field every day when he traveled from his temporary offices on Finley Golf Course Road to Kenan Stadium, where the team's locker room is housed.

About once a week, he would stop by the construction site to check in on the progress -- which turns out to be a good thing.

One day, he was looking at the space that would be the team's laundry room when he realized the workers didn't leave space for a door.

"I called our contractor and said, 'How are we supposed to get our washers and dryers in there?' " Fox said, laughing at the memory. "And he went, 'Oh.' "

The problem was fixed. But with the Tar Heels in Omaha for an eighth day Thursday, there's no telling what else Fox will find when he gets home.