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That's gotta be humiliating
Perhaps it's apocryphal, but my great uncle who was an ASU season ticket holder going back to the early 70s reported it as gospel fact. That's how Sun Devil Stadium got built, duffel bags of cash exchanged in empty lots for star players, the Sun Angels could raise unusual amounts of money overnight. I didn't hear any of these stories when I went there, most of my friends were transplants, but maybe @Pitchfork51 has some insight.
Note the date on that article, and the dates of Sun Devil Stadium's big expansions:
Built in 1958, the stadium's original capacity was 30,000. The first addition in 1976 substantially raised the capacity to 57,722. Seating was added to the south end zone, along with press and sky boxes. A year later, in 1977, the upper tier was completed to bring seating to 70,311.
In addition to wanting access to players and coaches for point shaving, the story goes that mobsters like sports and like winners, and since they were forced to live in the hellish desert with no local team except the Suns, they bought themselves a winner in ASU football.
Kush was a legend. They stumbled a bit when Kush was shown the door but John Cooper won a Rose Bowl in 86. Bruce Snyder lost one in 96.
It was USC, ASU, and UCLA that we knew we had to beat to win the league and the ASU stadium was always packed
Edit to say they joined the Pac 10 in 78 so the 77 expansion of the stadium was vital to that