[Mick]

Just 17 years ago, it allegedly cost Stanford $90 million to renovate the stadium. That number seems really, really low. . . .

I seem to recall that the rammed earth bowl within which the stadium sat greatly reduced the amount of new construction. Hence the relatively low cost of the new stadium (had to build the upper deck and press box, the rest was just refurbishing). Having Arillaga around helped too.

I suspect Arillaga hammered a lot of cost out of renovating Stanford Stadium. And a fair amount of it was cosmetic...

[Mick]

Just 17 years ago, it allegedly cost Stanford $90 million to renovate the stadium. That number seems really, really low. . . .

I seem to recall that the rammed earth bowl within which the stadium sat greatly reduced the amount of new construction. Hence the relatively low cost of the new stadium (had to build the upper deck and press box, the rest was just refurbishing). Having Arillaga around helped too.

I suspect Arillaga hammered a lot of cost out of renovating Stanford Stadium. And a fair amount of it was cosmetic...