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What's this I hear about hs stadium in McKinney?

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This was on the local tv station the other day. They're building a high school stadium in Mckinney that will cost $50 million. Is this true? Talk about skewed priorities. Odessa Permian all over again.
 
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This was on the local tv station the other day. They're building a high school stadium in Mckinney that will cost $50 million. Is this true? Talk about skewed priorities. Odessa Permian all over again.
Actually, it will cost about 62.8 million.
 
No oil in McKinney.
Rich folks live in Highland Park.
Where'd they get the cash?
Did the district start shaking down the meth labs?
 
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They've got to compete against the Frisco schools just down the road who will be playing at the new Cowboys field.
 
They've got to compete against the Frisco schools just down the road who will be playing at the new Cowboys field.
Allen has the $50 million field that that is broken - they had to pay rent to Plano ISD to use the Plano field. Allen abuts McKinney and Frisco. We have an arms race.
 
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My brother lives up in Frisco. He teaches at one of the 100 new high schools there. I've heard all about it.
 
Allen has the $50 million field that that is broken - they had to pay rent to Plano ISD to use the Plano field. Allen abuts McKinney and Frisco. We have an arms race.
Allen's stadium was actually 60 million. Katy is building a stadium with a 62.5 million price tag to go along with McKinney's 62.8 million stadium. It definitely does seem we are in an arms race.
 
My brother lives up in Frisco. He teaches at one of the 100 new high schools there. I've heard all about it.
One thing I'll give Frisco credit for - they build new high schools, keeping enrollment down. Allen has almost 5,000 in its high school, and only one high school in town. I don't know the politics of Allen, but from the outside, it looks like this slows or prevents development of the vast majority of students - there will only 1 kid that gets to play QB, 1 kid that gets the lead in the school play, one kid that gets to be president of student council, etc. Yes, they dominate football, and their halftime shows are spectacular, but at the cost of developing other kids (and I'm not one of those who wants to give participation trophies). Frisco has 14,000 kids spread over 8 high schools, with a 9th getting ready to open next year. Back to football talk. Anything else bad coming out of Waco today?
 
Just wait until the food vendors do the same thing they did to mega churches in Houston and dallas--- add Starbucks, mcdonalds, chick filet, etc.


Oh wait.....
 
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High school football is so freaking watered down now. Consolidate and we'll see quality pick up again.
That's why you see Allen as a power school because it's only one school in town. If it were 3 schools in town, the football teams won't be as talented. There is this one town in the Bay Area(California) named Union City and it has 1 high school. The population of the town is around 90,000 folks. They refuse to build a new school stating it will water down the product. It's a very good school in just about every sport. I feel that every city with a population of 30,000 folks should have a high school. If it's 100,000 folks in town, then it should be 3 high schools for that town
 
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In the town I went to high school in there was only 2 high schools when I was in school. Now there is 4 but the other 2 new schools are different. One is a career school and the other is a artsy school. So you could separate kids like that and reduce the student population like that.
 
That's why you see Allen as a power school because it's only one school in town. If it were 3 schools in town, the football teams won't be as talented. There is this one town in the Bay Area(California) named Union City and it has 1 high school. The population of the town is around 90,000 folks. They refuse to build a new school stating it will water down the product. It's a very good school in just about every sport. I feel that every city with a population of 30,000 folks should have a high school. If it's 100,000 folks in town, then it should be 3 high schools for that town
Plano started the giant hi school. In North Texas. It enabled them to beat Highland Park.
 
Plano started the giant hi school. In North Texas. It enabled them to beat Highland Park.

I grew up in San Antonio as anyone else on here who's from there can attest we had Judson high school. Oh they liked to refer to themselves as Converse Judson. Whatever. When I was growing up in the 70's it was a Podunk school in the sticks. But it grew into the biggest hs by far in San Antonio. And they were the fb power in SA. But the bigger the school got the more determined the people in Converse were to keep just one hs. I mean they would have probably taken it to the Supreme Court lol. They thought of creative ways like a fros and soph school and then a jr and sr school, I mean they were willing to do anything to keep the fb talent in one school. Hilarious and pathetic all at the same time. The people in Converse didn't care that the rest of the city was laughing at them. From what I was told back home it was only a few years ago that they finally gave in and built another hs.

Classic
 
They have football in the San Antonio area?

Have you not seen Friday night Tykes? I have been meaning to bring this up if anyone has watched it. There is a 12 year old boy named Martzell Miller I think that's his name and that kid is a stud at running back at that age and fast I mean fast has to be the best 12 year old out there. He plays for the San Antonio Outlaws and they have won 5 state titles in a row I think for TYFA which is what the league is called. They just moved to snoop doggs league this past season and won the whole thing in thier first year in the league. They had to fly to Cali and play in a playoff against 2 other cali teams and Miller was the mvp of the tourney. Carried the team on both sides of the ball and those cali teams were co*ky thinking they were going to run the Texas boys home early.

And I still remember 2004 when Midland High and Judson were playing for state and Midland had the game won all they needed was to play prevent D on the last play. Judsons qb that had a pea shooter of arm gave it everything he had and found a receiver behind the D and Midland loses it in the last seconds....
 
In 87-88 we had about 3.2 million kids in public schools in Texas. in 13-14 it was 5.2 million kids.
 
Have you not seen Friday night Tykes? I have been meaning to bring this up if anyone has watched it. There is a 12 year old boy named Martzell Miller I think that's his name and that kid is a stud at running back at that age and fast I mean fast has to be the best 12 year old out there. He plays for the San Antonio Outlaws and they have won 5 state titles in a row I think for TYFA which is what the league is called. They just moved to snoop doggs league this past season and won the whole thing in thier first year in the league. They had to fly to Cali and play in a playoff against 2 other cali teams and Miller was the mvp of the tourney. Carried the team on both sides of the ball and those cali teams were co*ky thinking they were going to run the Texas boys home early.

And I still remember 2004 when Midland High and Judson were playing for state and Midland had the game won all they needed was to play prevent D on the last play. Judsons qb that had a pea shooter of arm gave it everything he had and found a receiver behind the D and Midland loses it in the last seconds....
That young kid will be offered a ship in his 8th grade year. That Boy Is Good AND fast
 
Well I wouldn't think so. Don't his parents or family own the bbq place on the show and teach him work ethic and manners right?
Don't know about them owning a bbq place but they seem like good folks.
I didn't care for the new Friday Night Tikes. I like the TX ones better and my kids can relate to it
 
Unreal... you think about what $63 million would buy, in terms of better textbooks, better teaching, and (to some degree) useful technology...

There are HS principals just mailing it in, frankly, while half the teachers are heroic, and the other half are just plodding on, week-to-week. (And some of these piss-poor principals are up for awards -- even national awards -- unbelievably.)

Parents are as disrespectful, naturally, as the kids they send to school. (How do you think the kid got that way? Listen in on a parent-teacher call and find out why that kid is so narrow-minded and prejudiced.)

"Well, at least my kids are awesome." In a few cases, hopefully mine, it's actually true. ;)

I love sports, and I'm relatively patriotic, but the priorities of my fellow Texans are wacko.
 
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