OT - Texas High School to Build $60 MILLION Stadium.
Long story short, a high school in Allen Texas is building a $60 million football stadium. To be fair they are also building a $60 million performing arts center, but still...
This is exactly what American high schoolers need. Its not like students are falling behind in just about every single subject (math, science, ect.) or anything crazy like that. And besides, with all the surpluses that have been popping up in everyone's budget these days, we are going to just have to spend the money somewhere.
http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1074494
April 15th, 2010 at 12:05 AM ^
Tulane's building a 50 million dollar stadium.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
it's rough on the Super Dome staff to change things over and lower bowl seating in such a big stadium looks ridiculous
also where in the hell did you get that number/fact from? they're still at the proposal stage of a new stadium. are you confusing that with the volleyball/basketball facility they're going to be building soon?
April 15th, 2010 at 10:17 AM ^
Below, I meant 60 million--typo. It was just interesting that a high school was building a similar cost stadium to a university.
http://athleticbusiness.com/articles/lexisnexis.aspx?lnarticleid=116540…
April 15th, 2010 at 12:15 AM ^
it's their money to spend. i just hope the academic facilities are top notch, expensive performing arts facility aside. the schools' priorities better be in order.
sounds like a really wealthy suburb. if they can afford it, more power to them.
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On the stadium note, knowing some of the high school football programs in Texas, I'll bet they're not the first. What a waste. How about you hire some TEACHERS, build expanded facilities, and educate some kids from less financially well off areas.
How do you know that this school has a shortage of teachers or inadequate educational facilities? According to www.schoolmatters.com, it appears to be one of the best public schools in Texas. 96% of its students met the state standard for reading, and 89.6% met the standard for math.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:27 AM ^
They take their high school football seriously in Texas. In some places, it's like pulling teeth to get new turf/floors installed because the 50 year old relics in place are in disrepair and hurting the kids. Without implying that I know where Allen, TX needs to spend their money, I just hope this sort of support is felt throughout their community and its interests.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:29 AM ^
No big deal really. If the money is there and is being spread through the high school (as shown by the new performing arts center), then most people have no problem with it. Many high school teams in Texas even have their own indoor practice facilities. I have family who live in a school district with an indoor facility, and they have no issues with the money being used for such purposes. Fact is, high school football is huge in Texas. It brings in loads of money and, for many of these po-dunk towns, their high school football team is a huge source of pride. West Texas makes you fall asleep faster than a 9am lecture (and yes, I know Allen isn't in West Texas).
April 15th, 2010 at 12:50 AM ^
Allen is huge high school too. Something like 6100 students enrolled. They probably should have split a long time ago, but of course that would hurt the football team, so no-go.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:53 AM ^
Public or private?
The money was approved by voters by a WIDE margin, and as the article clearly states, the money could not be used for general education, only for capital expenses. It's not like they stole from the general fund to build the stadium. It doesn't strike me as being much different from my local community raising the money to install artificial turf in its newly-renovated stadium.
Yeah that seems to be A LOT of money for a high school football stadium. But it is also an investment.
Many of these school districts are just like colleges, looking to lure more students in and more sources of revenue. By building top notch facilities, it not only is a testament to the spending power of the taxpayers of the school district, it's a testament to the fact that this school district is devoted to spending money to improve their lot.
Besides Texans do love their football as stated above and I like that. If they weren't cooky enough to spend money and do the things they do for football, then who would?
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April 15th, 2010 at 10:26 AM ^
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Although it's tough to pull top talent away from UT, I like recent efforts made by our coaching staff to establish recruiting ties in the state. The population of Texas has boomed over the past 10 years, and they obviously take football very seriously. In order to build a program capable of competing with anyone in the country, we will need to supplement our Midwest recruiting with a few Florida and Texas players each year.
I think that football game just might catch on down in Texas.
the backlash if someone built that in michigan? There would be protesters on the school boards front yard. I bet this was met with applause in texas.
Because it wouldn't pass - the city of Allen has plenty of money and its residents want to poney up for a better facility. In Michigan, by and large, that situation isn't present so it's not even an issue.
So long as they specifically say what the bond is for and they don't yank money from the general education fund I don't see a problem with it at all. If anything it's creating jobs right? :)
Thanks to the Texas school board (who will eventually replace all the textbooks with the Dr. Seuss series) there should be extra money for "infrastructure."
April 15th, 2010 at 10:44 AM ^
suburbs in Dallas (one of the richest cities in the US) and everyone is OBSESSED with high school football.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:54 PM ^
I'm reminded of the passage in Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream, in which a former member of the Permian HS Panthers describes how much worse the footbal facilities were when he got to college ( obviously not UT ).