text: There was never much chance that Hughes would be repurposed. It is an aging stadium that needed a lot of maintenance just to keep it usable--to say nothing of keeping it on par with modern stadiums around the country--which is the main reason a new stadium was built in the first place. If CSU didn't see the value in putting tens of millions of dollars into Hughes to use it as their football stadium, then who was going to put that same amount of money into it to be used even less heavily as a concert venue or high school stadium?
  
  Thanks for the memories, Hughes Stadium!