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Eagle Stadium in Allen, TX

  • GoChiefs
    Set to open in 2012. A 60 MILLION dollar HIGH SCHOOL football stadium! Unreal.

    Virtual Tour Of Eagle Stadium
  • FairwoodKing
    I wonder what it would cost to build Fawcett Stadium from scratch today?
  • wildcats20
    Absolutely amazing. Just saw this on Yahoo's front page. Wow.

    I think the best part about it(other than the obvious) is that the bond gives "nearly as much money for a state-of-the-art auditorium for performing arts."
  • ts1227
    wildcats20 wrote: Absolutely amazing. Just saw this on Yahoo's front page. Wow.

    I think the best part about it(other than the obvious) is that the bond gives "nearly as much money for a state-of-the-art auditorium for performing arts."
    There's no school in Ohio that would pass a $119 Million dollar bond like these guys did.

    Who am I kidding, there's no school in Ohio that will pass a school issue for $1.19 anymore.

    You get what you pay for.
  • Speedofsand
    They lost to Southlake Carroll in 2 O.T. by a point in front of 40,000 fans last season.
  • Sonofanump
    What? Where are the loge seats?
  • skank
    FairwoodKing wrote: I wonder what it would cost to build Fawcett Stadium from scratch today?
    With or without the crumbling walls and the narrow isle ways?
  • coyotes22
    skank wrote:
    FairwoodKing wrote: I wonder what it would cost to build Fawcett Stadium from scratch today?
    With or without the crumbling walls and the narrow isle ways?
    With? :D
  • FairwoodKing
    I lived in Texas for a while, and I know some of these school districts have more money than they know what to do with. It doesn't surprise me in the least that a big school district like that would spend that much money on a stadium and auditorium.
  • skank
    coyotes22 wrote:
    skank wrote:
    FairwoodKing wrote: I wonder what it would cost to build Fawcett Stadium from scratch today?
    With or without the crumbling walls and the narrow isle ways?
    With? :D
    With ya say? Oh, about 800 dollars.
  • Big Al Carter
    Massillon cant even finish locker rooms, haha
  • skank
    60 Million can buy alot of things....Tradition is NOT one of them.
  • skank
    Big Al Carter wrote: Massillon cant even finish locker rooms, haha
    Speaking of locker rooms....Can Hoover fit more than 20 people in the visitors LR yet? No....I kid I kid, Hoover has such a cute little stadium.
  • Big Al Carter
    skank wrote: 60 Million can buy alot of things....Tradition is NOT one of them.
    Also dont get you a State Championship
  • FairwoodKing
    Big Al Carter wrote:
    skank wrote: 60 Million can buy alot of things....Tradition is NOT one of them.
    Also dont get you a State Championship
    Don't start this again. Massillon won 22 state championships the only way they could back in the day. They have a very proud program and I'm just happy that they and my boys from Big Red are playing each other again.

    GO TIGERS!!! (Except October 8)
  • FairwoodKing
    In terms of high school football, Texas is like Ohio but with money. There are some HUGE school districts there. Some of them are in very well-to-do areas.

    On the other hand, the best stadiums in Ohio (e.g., Fawcett in Canton, PBTS in Massillon, and Harding in Steubenville) were all built in the 1930's. I doubt if any of these communities could afford to build new stadiums today that would match what they already have.
  • bigkahuna
    It doesnt really matter where you play, it's HOW you play.

    Does it really matter if they are 5-5 or 6-4 every year? (I don't know anything about their program)
  • RedRider1
    The article mentions that the school has 3900! students in grades 10-12. And it's the only school in the entire district. That's unreal.

    Texas has a lot of the consolidated school districts, where a bunch of towns build 1 gargantuan school and basically pool their resources. Makes for some big schools/facilities, but you lose that sense of identity/community.

    I can see that (consolidation) being a viable option in Ohio. Reduce buildings, pool resources, take burden off the homeowner.
  • Sonofanump
    RedRider1 wrote:I can see that (consolidation) being a viable option in Ohio. Reduce buildings, pool resources, take burden off the homeowner.
    Not now, but they could have forced consolidation when they gave away tobacco money for new schools. Bad planning on the states part.
  • Steel Valley Football
    wow
  • Zombienation
    This just goes to show how much they value their education down there.