Dave Heeke spends much of his summer getaway time at Lost Lake, his family’s century-old cabin near Michigan’s upper peninsula. “No TV there,” he says. “No heat, no A/C. You’ve got to take a dirt road to get there.”
When the Arizona athletic director returns to Tucson for football season he finds his own version of Lost Lake. Arizona Stadium is the Pac-12’s remaining football relic, an aging facility that turns 90 next month.
All that it lacks is a dirt road.
Unlike its 1920 contemporaries such as the Rose Bowl, the Los Angeles Coliseum and the once-antiquated football stadiums at Stanford and Cal, Arizona Stadium is about $150 million shy of its final, welcome-to-the-21st century makeovers.