SEATTLE
Todd Turner and Husky Stadium are in a race that has nothing to do with which school in the Pac-10 has the nicest football stadium.
The athletic director’s plan for the future of the oldest stadium in the Pac-10 is finally developing a timeline. By November, the committee examining ways to improve the 87-year-old stadium should have finalized financial and repair plans in place.
This much is known: To complete all of the committee’s wants and needs, Turner says the costs will be “in the hundreds of millions.” And complicating matters is a massive public transportation project set to tear up the front door of Husky Stadium.
But Turner believes the effort is worth it.
“It’s an investment in our community that is part of what the University of Washington is all about,” Turner said Thursday after briefing the UW Board of Regents earlier in the day. “And whether you like intercollegiate football or believe in intercollegiate athletics, it’s an undeniable fact. … Our objective is to build something that is good for our community, good for our program and of quality.”
The needs list for the stadium is lengthy, beginning with a complete renovation of the roughly 40,000 seats in the stadium’s lower bowl, the original structure that opened in 1920.
