[Funny] Your tax dollars at... work? $60M HS stadium closed

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Washington Post link

I'm not from there (thank goodness), so my perspective is from the rest of the country... pointing and laughing.

What's the POV from those closer to the situation? (gets fresh :popcorn: ready)

(And TIL the school in question has an 800 (!) piece marching band. :confused:)
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Wait... the article says the stadium has 18,000 seats. That's as many seats as Madison Square Garden.

Just how many students does this school have???
 
Tress

Tress

bhamv3 said:
Wait... the article says the stadium has 18,000 seats. That's as many seats as Madison Square Garden.

Just how many students does this school have???
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High school football in Texas is a huge community affair. Even people who don't have kids at the school will go and be obsessed with the team. My guess is they easily sell all 18,000 seats for each game.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Tress is right. You can't overestimate how crazy stupid Texas communities will get over high school football, up to and including getting violent criminals out of jail time so it won't impact the season.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

My home town just used the same architect, but thank god, a different builder on their new stadium.[DOUBLEPOST=1400683692,1400683433][/DOUBLEPOST]This team has won 2 back to back state championships in the largest division. I am shocked that there are not more seats.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Celt Z said:
There was a school near us that used to be a monster because it had 300+ members. 800?!? How do you even write drill for that? Do even even fit on the field?
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When bands get that large they tend to get nicknamed "The Marching Ameoba" because it's hard to do any sort of formations.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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That's not so bad, it's just a 32x25 grid. It'd take up most of the middle of the field, sure, but not exactly spilling into the seats.

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Necronic

Necronic

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I would not be surprised if someone goes to jail over this. Small town like that with a contract like this, I guarantee there was some crony contracts involved. Wouldn't have been noticed either really without the cracks.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Allen is not a "small town" by any sense of the word, part of the fastest growing area of the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex.
GasBandit said:
That's not so bad, it's just a 32x25 grid. It'd take up most of the middle of the field, sure, but not exactly spilling into the seats.

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They're a show band, not a military band, they'd never be able to have that many straight lines and diagonals.
 
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