48 million dollar stadium for a Texas High School.......
48 million dollar stadium for a Texas High School.......
No Track, imagine that?
Not even close to the most expensive in Texas. How about $60 million? How about DOES NOT include a track? How about closed 2-years after opening on 2012 because it was deemed unsafe?
There is a legendary HS football from Texas.
Best I can remember....
Team is down big but they score, recover onside kick, score, recover onside kick, score, and.............recover onside kick, now they have the lead so they kick it deep......guy returns it for a game winning TD.
Gotta love it.
Plano East v John Tyler. Epic. It's on YouTube
No...it's not! Look at all the 5-star recruits and future NFL players that come out of that state! Texas HS football rules!!! ðŸ‘ðŸˆ
TX not as good as GA, MISS, FL, LA, Bama at producing talent. Just has more people.
Texas Football Power wrote:
No...it's not! Look at all the 5-star recruits and future NFL players that come out of that state! Texas HS football rules!!! ðŸ‘ðŸˆ
Bet they can barely read.
Hook 'em, morons.
All 3 are stupid.
Does it really matter?
These 5-stars will end-up at powerhouse schools such as Bama, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas A&M, etc. Barring a major injury, most will have a star-studded college career, declare for the draft early, get drafted in the early rounds, get huge signing bonuses & laugh all the way to the bank...all the while the rest of us have to work for living.
Texas Football Power wrote:
No...it's not! Look at all the 5-star recruits and future NFL players that come out of that state! Texas HS football rules!!! ðŸ‘ðŸˆ
Insofar as Texas produces more good players than other states, it's really only a result of Texas's larger population. On a per capita basis, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana , and Ohio all have more current NFL players. PA is pretty close to Texas. These states get similar or better results without acting like 16-year-olds playing football is the most important thing in the world.
College Football Feeder System wrote:
Does it really matter?
These 5-stars will end-up at powerhouse schools such as Bama, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas A&M, etc. Barring a major injury, most will have a star-studded college career, declare for the draft early, get drafted in the early rounds, get huge signing bonuses & laugh all the way to the bank...all the while the rest of us have to work for living.
Yeah and then they go bankrupt four years after retirement paying for: making it rain in the stripjoints, six kids child support by three ho's, ripped off by agent, payments on a fleet of cars, bail for their posse buds...and on and on...followed by early dementia from CTE head tackles..
*In a whining, mocking voice
"Texas High School football is just stuuuuupid!"
I understand that this is an absurd amount of money, but obviously money must be coming in to warrant this. And perhaps there is a separate, or even an old football stadium, with a track within.
Not everyone is obsessed with track and running like you (us).
The Allen stadium was a screwup. It had some construction problems that caused them to vacate it for awhile.
These communities want these stadiums. Let them build them.
There are several large ones in Houston and D-FW. Aside from those areas, you don't really see HSs having mega stadiums.
8-12k is the norm for a large district stadium.
False. Other areas of the country have some pretty crazy stadiums. My alma mater (El Paso High, TX) is pretty impressive for something built in 1916. Looks like Soldier Field to me.
http://www.maxpreps.com/news/article.aspx?articleid=ad5c15d8-f6f3-4f13-8b27-d79fc7f4c9f8&page=3
We run because we can't quite make it in football.
If somebody with $48M wants to donate it to a football stadium, WTF do you care? An entire community will enjoy that place for decades, is that a bad thing?
I live in one of the top football districts in TX. Sure it's important, but it's not an all consuming passion like you'd think.
I live in Prosper and pay absurdly high property taxes that go to fund this. Also,
I run at very nice tracks that are at many of the middle schools.
Yet they don't have up to date textbooks, pay the teachers well and the school itself is probably falling apart.
Good to see their priorities straight. 99.99% of these kids would be better off studying and hitting the books than playing football.