Texas high school's 60 million dollar stadium

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I will never be able to wrap my head around the sheer magnitude of high school football in Texas and throughout the American South. It's simply mind-blowing.
 
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orangesparkles said:
I will never be able to wrap my head around the sheer magnitude of high school football in Texas and throughout the American South. It's simply mind-blowing.
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It really is different in Texas, I grew up in southeast Texas (Port Neches) and the football stadium held 13,000 people - the 2000 census had 13,601 residents...it's a ghost town during games
 
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orangesparkles said:
I will never be able to wrap my head around the sheer magnitude of high school football in Texas and throughout the American South. It's simply mind-blowing.
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This is key. Football is honestly just as big in other Southern states as it is in Texas. Texas just gets the reputation because no other Southern state besides Florida (which is also big into football) even comes close in terms of population or size.

And yes, I would know. Spent 7 years in Mississippi, and my town could have been the city of Dillon from Friday Night Lights. And I've spent a year here in Austin, Texas, and it's about the same in terms of passion. Texas just has more money and people. The passion is there everywhere in the South.
 
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I found this article and was like "WOW!!!". They spent how much for a high school stadium. There is no wonder places like Texas and Florida out do Tennessee in recruiting in state players. Their high school stadium is equivalent to Tech in Cookeville or MTSU.
 
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orangepeopleeater said:
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I found this article and was like "WOW!!!". They spent how much for a high school stadium. There is no wonder places like Texas and Florida out do Tennessee in recruiting in state players. Their high school stadium is equivalent to Tech in Cookeville or MTSU.
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Yeah I played high school football in Texas. Pretty much everything you hear about how serious they treat high school football is true.
 
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Some of the HS in TN do need to step it up. But if HSFB is sooooo big in Tx why don't Univ of Tx, A&M, Tx Tech , etc rule the FB world? They should all 3 be a whole lot better than they are!
 
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volboy81 said:
Some of the HS in TN do need to step it up. But if HSFB is sooooo big in Tx why don't Univ of Tx, A&M, Tx Tech , etc rule the FB world? They should all 3 be a whole lot better than they are!
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Enthusiasm and popularity don't necessarily equate to talent production. That said, Texas does produce enough talent to feed at least a few powerhouse programs.
 
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volboy81 said:
Some of the HS in TN do need to step it up. But if HSFB is sooooo big in Tx why don't Univ of Tx, A&M, Tx Tech , etc rule the FB world? They should all 3 be a whole lot better than they are!
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Texas A&M looks like they are getting there. Texas is the last non sec team to win the NCG, and I think they beat Bama if Colt doesn't go down. They had a 10 year streak of at least 10 wins, witha hand full of BCSwins.
 
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orangepeopleeater said:
HSS Mobile Site


I found this article and was like "WOW!!!". They spent how much for a high school stadium. There is no wonder places like Texas and Florida out do Tennessee in recruiting in state players. Their high school stadium is equivalent to Tech in Cookeville or MTSU.
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They have like 7 x the population we do.

Please tell me this is somehow not tax-payer funded.
 
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VolsFan-TX said:
Another article on the funding, rationale, and public support for the stadium.

Allen HS facility cost $60 million - ESPN
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Allen's nuts about football. I have 3 friends from college who went there for HS. One was a star football player, and played starting safety for BYU. You may remember this, LOL:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarH0QJuRWo[/youtube]
 
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