Texas High School Stadium Pictures

[1Aggie]

Here is an intersting discussion about high school stadiums in Texas. I know my Aggies suck but I thought we could at least have scoreboard on one thing over Ohio.

http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.a...943&forum_id=5

As you can see we have our priorities in order in Texas.

[RhodeIslandBuck]

Holy [censored], we have nothing remotely like that in Rhode Island.

[scooter1369]

Much ado has been made about the frivolous spending for athletic centers and football stadiums, not just in Texas, but nationwide.

One would think that EDUCATION would be the biggest expense by a large margin. I'm all for having nice facilities as long as it isn't extravagant.

My county school system didn't have stadiums at every school. We had Memorial Stadium on 11th Street (Now LPGA Drive) that hosted all of our games. If you were the late game on a rainy night, footing was going to suck and someone was going to get hurt. Period.

I was shocked when I moved to Ohio and saw that every school has its own stadium. UA High School just replaced their field with field turf a couple fo years ago. Largely by donation of a players dad. Not surprisingly, the kid was named starting QB for the season.

[OregonBuckeye]

Oregon has nothing like that either. My school's stadium is probably the best in Oregon and it looks like a practice field compared to some of those.

[Jeffcat]

my question is where in the holy hell does all this funding from texas stadiums come from? they sure as hell are not getting tens of millions from donations alone. i mean ohio is just as big with football but education is SEVERELY underfunded here and large facilities like that dont exist anywhere in the state. fawcett is the only similar facility. piquas new stadium was an outstanding facility but it would be put to shame by the texas stadiums. so where is this money coming from? i played in delphos which is all football but even then 2 schools varsity, jv, freshman, jr high, and midget all played on one field by a sewage plant with a visiting side consisting of movable wooden bleachers. granted they have made strides with a new locker room and scoreboard but nothing like these texas schools.

[IronBuckI]

Originally Posted by Jeffcat

my question is where in the holy hell does all this funding from texas stadiums come from? they sure as hell are not getting tens of millions from donations alone. i mean ohio is just as big with football but education is SEVERELY underfunded here and large facilities like that dont exist anywhere in the state. fawcett is the only similar facility. piquas new stadium was an outstanding facility but it would be put to shame by the texas stadiums. so where is this money coming from? i played in delphos which is all football but even then 2 schools varsity, jv, freshman, jr high, and midget all played on one field by a sewage plant with a visiting side consisting of movable wooden bleachers. granted they have made strides with a new locker room and scoreboard but nothing like these texas schools.

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

[Jeffcat]

Originally Posted by IronBuckI

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

neahhhh it was just all jefferson

[IronBuckI]

Originally Posted by Jeffcat

neahhhh it was just all jefferson

I knew it was something. It actually smelled worse than just a mere sewage plant.

[Jeffcat]

Originally Posted by IronBuckI

I knew it was something. It actually smelled worse than just a mere sewage plant.

noooo prolly the city water in your water jugs obviously in texas their water can be made into crystalline forms of diamond that they can makes millions from somehow

[Muck]

Originally Posted by Jeffcat

large facilities like that dont exist anywhere in the state. fawcett is the only similar facility.

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

The only real difference I see is the monstrous press boxes those stadiums have.

[tedginn05]

Yea no HS stadium in Ohio compares to Texas HS stadiums. Its pretty bad when they care about more about stadiums than education. I have read that they build those stadiums mostly through "Building Construction" from taxes.

The school district will get a levy voted for by tax payers that is susposed to go towards building construction. The school district, instead of building new school buildings, will put it into stadium construction.

Those stadiums for sure put my HS's field to shame, but just about any stadium in country can do that. I would just be happy if we could get some new bleachers.

[Pheasant]

WTF do they need press boxes that big for? That's kinda crazy. At any rate, Texas can have the high school stadium victory....this is the one that matters:

[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.

[Jeffcat]

Originally Posted by tedginn05

Yea no HS stadium in Ohio compares to Texas HS stadiums. Its pretty bad when they care about more about stadiums than education. I have read that they build those stadiums mostly through "Building Construction" from taxes.

The school district will get a levy voted for by tax payers that is susposed to go towards building construction. The school district, instead of building new school buildings, will put it into stadium construction.

Those stadiums for sure put my HS's field to shame, but just about any stadium in country can do that. I would just be happy if we could get some new bleachers.

well if its a public school system then yes they get funding through property tax but unless you have multiple nuclear powerplants and a crapload of people in your district they still cant afford to build that stadium. at the rate that school is growing im amazed the schools even make it because the taxation has to be on a level of ridiculous by now. money is coming in from everywhere and then more some just to show off essentially.

[OhioState49]

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!