Greatest setting update

PurpleJ

Good for 9th in the SEC. Pathetic.

FireCohen

7-5

Emoterman

dnc said:

Emoterman said:

RaceBannon said:

LawDawg1 said:

When the shit did ASU lead the conference in anything?

Probably the 80s and 1996

ASU was the only sports game in town other than the Suns until 1988, Kush had them rolling, they were lousy with mob money, and Sun Devil Stadium was a big house. Makes sense to me.

Ooooohhhh what's the backstory there?

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/14/archives/organized-crime-spreads-to-fastgrowing-arizona.html

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.

UWhuskytskeet

HuskyJW said:

How do OSU and WSU even pay their bills?

A huge chunk of their capacity is student seating. They have about 23,000 tickets available to the public.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

LawDawg1 said:

When the shit did ASU lead the conference in anything?

ASU by far leads the rest of the conference in STDs. @Pitchfork51

RaceBannon

ASU in the WAC routinely beat Pac 8 bottom feeders like WSU and UW in 1975 as a matter of fact. They went unbeaten in 75 and beat Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl. They were as good as any team

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

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

ASU in the WAC routinely beat Pac 8 bottom feeders like WSU and UW in 1975 as a matter of fact. They went unbeaten in 75 and beat Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl. They were as good as any team

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

Of 4 schools that used to draw big crowds - i.e., UW, USC, UCLA and ASU - UW has been able to overcome shitty football, pro sports abundance, and decline is college football attendance in general, far better than most. Even at 0-12 we could still get 60K to show up in our crumbling dump.

Meek

HuskyJW said:

How do OSU and WSU even pay their bills?

yuan

YellowSnow

Meek said:

HuskyJW said:

How do OSU and WSU even pay their bills?

yuan

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