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Texas high school to open $60M football stadium
AP ^ | August 30, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 08/30/2012 1:56:51 PM PDT by C19fan

Call it the palace of high school football: A gleaming $60 million facility with seats for 18,000 roaring fans, a 38-foot-wide high-definition video screen, corporate sponsors and a towering upper deck. Welcome to the new home of Eagles Football. As school districts across the country struggle to retain teachers, replace outdated textbooks and keep class sizes from ballooning, the wealthy, burgeoning Dallas suburb of Allen is preparing to christen its new stadium with a sold-out Friday night matchup against defending state champions Southlake Carroll.

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To: 1rudeboy

That’s a separate point and also valid.
I don’t know what the TX State Constitution says on such matters.

But I do know that the US Constitution doesn’t have anything in there about subsidizing High School football stadiums.


101 posted on 08/30/2012 5:26:52 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: dfwgator
Remember the last Dallas Super Bowl?

Seems like the GB packers trained in the Southlake Carroll HS stadium, and thought that it was a better facility than what they trained in.

102 posted on 08/30/2012 5:30:59 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: 1rudeboy
“I am simply amused by ostensible conservatives supporting a facility that the authorities themselves admit they cannot fund.”

I find it amusing that an “ostensible” conservative would have any problem with local folks voting to fund whatever they want. I can assure you ten years from now the good local Texans are much more likely to pass another bond issue to improve the facility than cry about “excesive” funding Texans are like that.

I think you are a bit bored with nothing to watch on the tube tonight as I cant believe any conservative would really care how local taxpayers vote to spend their own money...a lib on the other hand would have plenty of problems with it...

103 posted on 08/30/2012 5:34:30 PM PDT by montanajoe (Blame Flame Shame or Beg I won't vote for R/R)
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To: 1rudeboy
You said this:

a facility that the authorities themselves admit they cannot fund.

They said this:

"Our intention is not to recoup the money it cost to build the stadium,"... Carroll said. "It's not practical to say we'll get that money back. (But) the revenue we receive from the stadium will far exceed the cost of operating it." Carroll said extra revenue from stadium operations will go into the district general fund.

That they will not recoup the costs of the stadium, I agreed with you they said that, you don't have to repost it again. I said that you are wrong that they don't believe they can fund the running of the stadium, which is not what they said. They believe they will be able to do that. The 60 million will not be recouped, at least in any timeframe that anyone normally investing would expect it to come back in, but it will provide some non-monetary benefits to the community and those benefits will extend beyond just those on the Football team.
104 posted on 08/30/2012 5:37:28 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: montanajoe
...a lib on the other hand would have plenty of problems with it....

I'll remember that, in case you and I ever find ourselves discussing "stimulus" packages. /s

105 posted on 08/30/2012 5:52:11 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: freedumb2003
As anew Texan, may I ask one question:

WHY?

As Louis Armstrong once said when someone asked him to describe Jazz "If you have to ask, you'll never understand the answer."

106 posted on 08/30/2012 5:58:31 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 ("You can either limit growth or limit government. We choose to limit government." Paul Ryan.)
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To: Leo58; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Re: That’s what I call having your priorities in order.

Of course, we built a state-of-the-art breweries for both fine spirits and beer... before we turned the first spade of dirt on Eagle Stadium.

Now, that is having your priorities in order... isn't it?

Sure is, Bendy... sure is!

When I look down from space, Bend, I can see both... but then again, I may be seeing double as Happy Hour up here is an all day affair--

What, Bender... no state-of-the-art shooting range?

Of course, they have a shooting and skeet range, Clint... Bendy had both built under the stadium parking lot.

Thanks, Sarah, now... you want another beer?

Bendy, here in Spain they combine a winery, Nunnary and bull fighting ring... that you can get do just about anything there just as long as it is done in black & white.

I was going to film my next black & white master piece, Nuns there, Michael Caine in Spain, but Google posted me... in color. That destroyed all my creditability... as an authentic 'Auteur' film director!

Here to that new high school library... Bend!

Yeah, Dean, but before we build that it we need to build a fine cigar factory... complete with a bevy 18-year old virgins to roll the Churchills and Gran Coronas on their well toned, tanned thighs.

107 posted on 08/30/2012 5:59:13 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: 1rudeboy

“The school district decided to build it in a down economy, knowing full well it will never recoup the costs”

That’s fine if that’s what the local taxpayers want to take out of their own personal funds. Anyone is free to invest their own personal money into a losing investment if they so wish. They voted on it at the LOCAL level. That’s SMALL GOVERNMENT in action.

But I would bet that’s not the whole story and other people are subsidizing this who didn’t get a chance to vote on it. I’ll keep digging.


108 posted on 08/30/2012 6:01:13 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Lorianne

I wouldn’t worry too much about it . . . no one’s minds will be changed (nor do I care if they are not). I simply wanted to see if there are any fiscal conservatives among Texas HS football fans.


109 posted on 08/30/2012 6:04:59 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
"wasteful government spending"

This was a LOCAL decision, affecting the LOCAL voters and their school. As far as I'm concerned, LOCAL elections take care of those who WASTE tax dollars from LOCAL people....they're not spending the tax dollars of people who are not involved/don't live there.

I have been to MANY Southern Football events, and those people LIVE for it.

I'm not impressed with wimpy supposed-sports like soccer, or other unpopular festivities masquerading as "sports".

110 posted on 08/30/2012 6:13:31 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: traditional1
...they're not spending the tax dollars of people who are not involved/don't live there.
Valid point, even if you must be an optimist to believe it.

I have been to MANY Southern Football events, and those people LIVE for it.
Complete non-sequitur.

I'm not impressed with wimpy supposed-sports like soccer, or other unpopular festivities masquerading as "sports".
Even worse of one.

111 posted on 08/30/2012 6:19:12 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: C19fan

Here we go:

The city [of Allen] is applying for a federal grant to develop transit strategies to get people from elsewhere to their retail and hotel jobs. (other stuff in the requests for Federal grants)

http://www.cityofallen.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1707


112 posted on 08/30/2012 6:41:02 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: 1rudeboy

You can bet if the local people voted to tax themselves to build bike trails and bike lanes or a bus system, the tea party small government types would be apoplectic about it. Nevermind that government on the city or county level is just about as “small government” as you can get.


113 posted on 08/30/2012 6:45:24 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: okie01
Olney and Burkburnett met and the officiating was so bad the Burk fans attacked the officials after the game. Burk was prohibited from playing a high school the next year..1962 so they played a Junior College schedule using the open spots on the JC schedules, and went undefeated.

We played Lawton Eisenhower, Altus, and Duncan before entering into the district with Brownwood, Stephenville, Iowa Park, and Vernon. You cannot tell me the Okie boys don't play just as hard. Our coach had the longest winning streak in Oklahoma HS football at Lindsay back in the early 60's.

114 posted on 08/30/2012 7:27:42 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: cdga5for4
I played Lacrosse for the University of Tennessee but it was unfunded by the school. I played Texas HS football in the 60’s and when I went to UTK the Lacrosse Team recruited me. I loved playing with sticks and in shorts and being able to knock the bejesus out of folks.
115 posted on 08/30/2012 7:32:46 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ronnyquest
What business does a high school have using taxpayer funds for this?

The taxpayers approved it.

116 posted on 08/30/2012 7:36:17 PM PDT by Drew68 (I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
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To: shadeaud

What is an ISD?


117 posted on 08/30/2012 8:01:47 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: vetvetdoug
You cannot tell me the Okie boys don't play just as hard.

I wouldn't. I was one of them. Up in northern Oklahoma in the fifties. Class C it was at the time.

And, during an away game, you could've laid an artillery barrage on downtown Medford...and hit nobody.

I imagine it was much the same at Burkburnett.

118 posted on 08/30/2012 8:32:05 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: huldah1776

ISD=Independent School District.


119 posted on 08/30/2012 11:56:32 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98)
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To: Bender2
Ain't no ones bidness but theirs Texans love their football
Let Texans be Texans I say.

Now about those free tickets Bend...

120 posted on 08/31/2012 4:39:11 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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