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[ZachDumas]

Isn't Wildcat Stadium the home of the legendary Coach Kilmer?

[Jeffcat]

Originally Posted by OhioState8496

haven't you saw piqua's alexander stadium, its up there. there are other stadiums in ohio that are very nice too. but just showing you my house!

well ive never saw it before but i have seen it on multiple occasions for track meets and playoff games and yes its a wonderful facility which is why i used it in comparison to these crazy texas stadiums blowing absurd amounts of cash on their stadiums.

[ntd]

Originally Posted by BrockSamson

I went to the CyFair ISD schools, home of Ken Pridgeon Stadium and Richard Berry Stadium. The new Berry Complex - at a cost of $75 million (including a 16,000 seat stadium for football/soccer, a 9,500 seat arena for bball and graduations, a 450 seat auditorium, and a 16,000 sq.ft. conference center) - should be the nicest HS facilities in the nation. Cause for talk, indeed.

Need: In 1997, CFISD opened HS#6. In 2002, they opened HS#7. This year they open an eighth, with #9 and #10 scheduled to open in 2008. With 6 HSs using Pridgeon, there were games Thurs, Fri, and 2 on Sats [not every weekend, but most]. Thursday night games suck, and Saturday afternoon games are downright brutal. Something had to be built before it came to Wed. or Tues. night games.

Funding: It's all voter-approved bonds that essentially jack up your property taxes - or so I think. In addition to that, you sell ads in the stadium, get revenue for renting out your facilities, etc.

I don't think a bond referendum has been voting down in a long time (for CFISD). It's a good thing, too, because they are building new schools as fast as they can put them up and overcrowding is still a problem.

Educationally, the only problem is a lack of lockers/textbooks. Hell, they even built CyFair College - sometimes referred to as 13th grade - which has to show a commitment to education.

There are essentially zero school districts in Ohio outside of huge cities that get to be that big...obviously the inner city schools don't have the cash for monstrous stadiums...There are starting to be some wealthy and large school districts in Central Ohio that support athletics, Dublin and Olentangy come to mind first, Dublin has 3 high schools, Olentangy 2 but both districts are growing pretty rapidly. They both have pretty nice facilities but each school gets their own, so as you can imagine the money is spread out to build 3 very nice stadiums, but not quite like these

Massilon has a pretty nice stadium, holds around 17,000 and has a decent press box...Canton schools share a stadium, Canton fawcett and it is very nice partially because the NFL put some cash in it (they play the hall of fame game there every year).

[bkochmc]

Originally Posted by IronBuckI

Ah yes. I remember going to Delphos. The sewage plant did create a diSTINKED homefield advantage for Delphos Jefferson.

Not to mention their "box seating" for visitors... I think you could fit 50 people in those stands!

[Tlangs]

Originally Posted by Muck

Centerville's field is pretty similar to the Temple Wildcats stadium from the link.

Centerville is doing a renovation right now. I took my daughter to the petting zoo next to the highschool and the football stadium along with the school is being worked on. It is a mess over there right now.

[Jeffcat]

Originally Posted by bkochmc

Not to mention their "box seating" for visitors... I think you could fit 50 people in those stands!

sadly if they would of relocated the stadium and made a new one with the locker room and scoreboard they have now they could have easily have become a playoff site buuuuut i guess they chose otherwise. wouldnt have to be a texas size one or one as good as piquas but something seating around 6000 with nice concessions and restrooms would be nice.

[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.

[scooter1369]

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.

[ScarletBlood]

I wrote a blog about this awhile back.
http://texas-ohio-state.college-foot...rums.com/?p=10

Per capita, Ohio has just as many large stadiums. Our stadiums obviously are not as new and nice but many have storied tradition, especially Massilon and Cin. Elder.

[Wannabeme]

Originally Posted by cincibuck

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.

I watched my tiny high school play two state championship games in the shoe. Of course my little country school was playing against a catholic school that recruited from about 60 miles around (how fair is that!) St. something from northeast and the second time was Ironton. Always a powerhouse in high school ball.

[bkochmc]

Originally Posted by Jeffcat

sadly if they would of relocated the stadium and made a new one with the locker room and scoreboard they have now they could have easily have become a playoff site buuuuut i guess they chose otherwise. wouldnt have to be a texas size one or one as good as piquas but something seating around 6000 with nice concessions and restrooms would be nice.

Yep, Delphos would be a great town to hold playoff games with the history of those two high schools. Sounds like they screwed up just like Grove did when they built their new stadium... only put in a 6 lane track so now they cannot host NWC, District, or Regional track meets. But as far as small-town football stadiums go, Grove got it right.

[IrontonBuck]

This is one of the great high school stadiums anywhere. Tanks Memorial Stadium, Ironton, Ohio 45638

[OhioState49]

Ironton, that is a very unique stadium. the stands are very..... different.

[tedginn05]

Our stadium is so bad. 30+ year old bleachers. The metal supports are rusting away. The seats that are made of wood just got plastic coverings this past season. When you walk up the steps you hear creaking and cracking noises.

I'm really surprised our bleachers haven't been condemed yet.

The older schools like Linden, West, East(They are boarderline) and South have concrete instead of the bare metal. Their stadiums, despite being upwards of 80+ years old, are in better shape than most stadiums in the city.

[High Lonesome]

(cant find a better picture right now)

this was ours....Holds about 10,000 in the stands and then depending on the game can get up to 15k by letting people sit on the hills in the inzone....pretty standard stadium where we were from....wasn't bad, but wasn't the best by a long shot