TEMPE, Ariz. -- Publicly funded stadiums are a hot button topic in professional and college athletics. Arizona State president Michael Crow and Vice President for University Athletics Ray Anderson are keenly sensitive to that reality.
"The fact of the matter is, we're in an environment where public funds for what some people think might be luxury -- you're just not going to get it in this day and time," Anderson said. "In order to do it you go out and essentially pay for it yourself."
That was the objective when Arizona State started its fund raising efforts to reinvent Sun Devil Stadium without the use of tuition money or taxpayer money.