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Originally Posted by cincibuck
Comparable? The best facilities in the Greater Cincinnati area are found at Princeton High School... I think the seats hold close to 10,000, but it's all open bleachers on both sides and a pressbox about the size of a Fruhauf Trailer. Centerville and Fairmont have nice stadiums, but again you'd be hard pressed to get 13K in either one. Perc Welcome Stadium was originally built for Dayton Public High Schools with a capacity of 15 - 18K. When University of Dayton tore down Baujuan Field (capy 18K) they made an agreement with DPS to share Perc Welcome and help upgrade the facility.
The lack of facilities becomes an issue each fall when the playoffs begin. No one wants to drive to Oxford to use Miami's Yeager Stadium. University of Cincinnati gets upset because high schools use their neat Nippert Stadium on Friday and pack in 15 to 18K and then the Bearcats play the next day to barely 8K. As a result the bigger playoff games go to Perc Welcome in Dayton or Columbus Crew Stadium (a very nice facility) in Columbus and then finish... much to the unbridled anger of SW Ohio football fans... at Massilon and Canton's Fawcett Stadium. Loved it when the big guys used to play the state final game in the shoe, but then OSU pulled up the rug and put in pro terf and worried that the field wouldn't take the beating of five games in one weekend. |
The Florida title games are played in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. THE SWAMP.
Not sure why we don't do the same here in the 'Shoe.