Recruiting McKinney, Texas HS to build $62.8 million stadium (12,000 seats)

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This is unbelievable!

A Texas high school will build a $62.8 million stadium, after the school board for McKinney ISD voted in favor of it.


The stadium will seat 12,000. About $50.3 million will come from the town as part of a $220 million bond, per reports. Katy ISD is also in the process of building a $58 million stadium in Texas. Reminder: This is high school football.

For reference, Tulane’s Yulman Stadium, which opened in 2014, cost $73 million.

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http://www.chron.com/sports/highsch...-62-million-McKinney-ISD-football-7454223.php

Texans love football. That is evident with the millions of dollars voters are approving to build mammoth high school football stadiums.

On Saturday, McKinney Independent School District voters approved a $220 million bond proposition that includes a 12,000-seat stadium and events center that could take 23 percent of the total bond.

LONG HISTORY: Texas schools spare no expense for huge football stadiums

According to the Dallas Morning News, the approved stadium will use $50.3 million of the recently approved bond. An additional $12.5 million left over from a 2000 bond will be used for stadium infrastructure, including roads, water, sewage and electricity.

"We're visionaries," Superintendent Rick McDaniel said of district leaders to the Morning News. "And we believe we have a vision for McKinney ISD that will propel us forward for a long time."
 

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I'm sorry, but that's simply too excessive for HS athletics. Talk about misplaced priorities. :headslap:
 

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This is unbelievable!

A Texas high school will build a $62.8 million stadium, after the school board for McKinney ISD voted in favor of it.


The stadium will seat 12,000. About $50.3 million will come from the town as part of a $220 million bond, per reports. Katy ISD is also in the process of building a $58 million stadium in Texas. Reminder: This is high school football.

For reference, Tulane’s Yulman Stadium, which opened in 2014, cost $73 million.

For reference: Tulane can't get 12,000 at Yulman.

For further reference: Most Texas high schools can beat Tulane.
 
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Costs for stadiums are getting crazy even for concrete High School ones. I think our stadium seats like 7000+ and most of the seating section had deteriorated and the cost to rebuild it as it was originally was crazy - forgot how many million. I think they are going to just switch it to much cheaper bleacher type seating instead and its in a county that has a pretty good tax base for its size.
 

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Regardless, football is a grand cultural accomplishment. It's greatest achievement is the
cheerleaders - getting that many women to wear the same outfit to an event.
 

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Regardless, football is a grand cultural accomplishment. It's greatest achievement is the
cheerleaders - getting that many women to wear the same outfit to an event.

Trying to get a woman to wear is a skirt is now a grand cultural accomplishment.
 

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This is unbelievable!

A Texas high school will build a $62.8 million stadium, after the school board for McKinney ISD voted in favor of it.


The stadium will seat 12,000. About $50.3 million will come from the town as part of a $220 million bond, per reports. Katy ISD is also in the process of building a $58 million stadium in Texas. Reminder: This is high school football.

For reference, Tulane’s Yulman Stadium, which opened in 2014, cost $73 million.

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http://www.chron.com/sports/highsch...-62-million-McKinney-ISD-football-7454223.php

Texans love football. That is evident with the millions of dollars voters are approving to build mammoth high school football stadiums.

On Saturday, McKinney Independent School District voters approved a $220 million bond proposition that includes a 12,000-seat stadium and events center that could take 23 percent of the total bond.

LONG HISTORY: Texas schools spare no expense for huge football stadiums

According to the Dallas Morning News, the approved stadium will use $50.3 million of the recently approved bond. An additional $12.5 million left over from a 2000 bond will be used for stadium infrastructure, including roads, water, sewage and electricity.

"We're visionaries," Superintendent Rick McDaniel said of district leaders to the Morning News. "And we believe we have a vision for McKinney ISD that will propel us forward for a long time."

Hopefully it includes a storm shelter for 12,000+.
 

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For reference: Tulane can't get 12,000 at Yulman.

For further reference: Most Texas high schools can beat Tulane.
Oh great.

Now you are going to send AR into a Conf USA is just as good as the SEC rant.
 

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And Florida public Scholls are trying to get rid of athletic programs. Many of the HS sports have to get private funding to exist.

Sounds like Rick Perry was a he'll of a Governor with that kind of excess $$$.
 

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Meanwhile, I'll bet you a hundred bucks that half the students in that high school couldn't spell CAT even if you spotted them the "C" and the "T".
 

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Looks like the money is coming from local taxpayers. If they are wiling to spend their own money, what can you say?
 

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And st Thomas Aquinas would still wax their ass

I agree that St. Thomas Aquinas would clobber them but let's keep in mind that Aquinas is not a high school program.
They are nothing more than a college prep program that recruits and introduces the players to being paid to play.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching them tour the country and kicking butt however they are a South Florida All Star team so they should be able to beat any high school in the country.
 

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I agree that St. Thomas Aquinas would clobber them but let's keep in mind that Aquinas is not a high school program.
They are nothing more than a college prep program that recruits and introduces the players to being paid to play.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching them tour the country and kicking butt however they are a South Florida All Star team so they should be able to beat any high school in the country.

I have no problem with this, but only if UF keeps getting their players.

Now for a HS to spend that amount of money on a stadium is just stupid.
 

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