HS Football...Oh My Friggin' God - Page 3

Uncle Pervey · 03-13-2011, 10:35pm

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Originally Posted by Wadoka

My weight room in HS was called the "Field House" and it was one of those steel, prefab, no heat, no air conditioning, tetanus-everywhere buildings just like Will describes.

Didn't have one complete set of plates, just lots and lots of mismatched plates. One old dinosaur of a multi-station cable machine. A couple of toilets that never worked, showers nobody would dare use, etc etc.

I was six feet tall and 185 pounds as a senior, and I was the 5th-heaviest and 3rd-tallest player on the team.

We played on a field with bad grass, dim lighting, and poorly-constructed concrete stands (home side) and ramshackle aluminum stands (visitors side).

Facilities like the ones pictures... they boggle my mind, the thought that people in a community might care THAT MUCH about high school sports.

40+ years ago in Texas that was my experience too. Now the school district just completed a state of the art athletics center that looks much like the pics Chef posted. BTW I was 6 ft and 185 and the second tallest and heaviest player on our team. The other guy was 6'-1" and 195, he got a full ride to SMU, as a tight end.

GRN ENVY · 03-13-2011, 10:38pm

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Originally Posted by Iron Chef

Agreed. And I have to say that the other programs in the school are well funded. The marching band is huge and very good. Excellent theater programs, student facilities, etc. My son says that even the food is good.

You must being lying now, School food is great, what happen to having mystery meat 5 different ways for the week.

Iron Chef · 03-13-2011, 10:41pm

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Originally Posted by GRN ENVY

You must being lying now, School food is great, what happen to having mystery meat 5 different ways for the week.

I can't speak as I've never had the food there. Barn Babe is one of the cafeteria folks (my son calls her the "Burrito Lady") so she might be able to say better. But he and his friends eat at school every day. Kids don't do that unless they like the food.

GRN ENVY · 03-13-2011, 10:45pm

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Originally Posted by Iron Chef

I can't speak as I've never had the food there. Barn Babe is one of the cafeteria folks (my son calls her the "Burrito Lady") so she might be able to say better. But he and his friends eat at school every day. Kids don't do that unless they like the food.

Wow, Good school food, who would have thunk it. I brown bagged everyday of high school

Bucwheat · 03-14-2011, 8:21am

You must live in a very upscale county.

Entropy · 03-14-2011, 8:26am

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Originally Posted by GRN ENVY

Wow, Good school food, who would have thunk it. I brown bagged everyday of high school

I can remember my high school chemistry teacher complaining about the number of chemicals he could buy with his budget, but there always seemed to be enough money for new sod for the football field every year. Stands would generally be full on a Friday night for a game, but not always.

However, if the team can make it work financially and the local community supports it, than there's no issue in my mind.

Z06David · 03-14-2011, 8:43am

I went to high school in Texas and our weight room was in our locker room and another room underneath the stadium that we called the dungeon

Of course after I left they built a nice weight room and put artificial turf.

oyealiz · 03-14-2011, 11:29am

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Originally Posted by Z06David

I went to high school in Texas and our weight room was in our locker room and another room underneath the stadium that we called the dungeon

Of course after I left they built a nice weight room and put artificial turf.

Yall sound like a bunch of old coots..."I had to walk a mile in my only pair of shoes to catch the bus into town, by which time I'd already been up for 4 hrs, milking the cows and such."

Cybercowboy · 03-14-2011, 11:51am

I went to the "good" HS so we had top-notch facilities for our 4A championship football program. The "bad" HS was really kick-ass in basketball - also 4A champs, while football was our thing (I played basketball at the good HS, we did win the 4A b-ball championship a few years before I played). That said, our weight room was upstairs in the gym, above the men's locker room. There were perhaps four weight benches, a cable machine, and a leg-press machine. There were several cable units screwed to the walls that I never saw anybody use.

Us basketball players were only allowed to use the weight room when the football players weren't using it, which was pretty much only on Friday nights it seemed. So if we weren't playing a game, we got to work out in the gym. About all the coach was interested in us doing was leg presses and squats, I don't think I ever did a single bench press all during my short b-ball career.

We played big schools in St. Louis and Kansas City, schools that had facilities much nicer than ours, and beat them up pretty handily.

kylebuck · 03-14-2011, 11:53am

My college doesnt have a weight room like that ...

erickpl · 03-14-2011, 1:02pm

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Originally Posted by 78SA

Texas, where football is serious business.

Business? More like a religion.

C5SilverBullet · 03-14-2011, 1:32pm

Where are the pics of the trophies?

C5SilverBullet · 03-14-2011, 1:34pm

When we come up in May, any chance of getting a tour of the place?

vetterdstr · 03-14-2011, 1:38pm

That certainly is a great place to go to school. Hopefully it instills a sense of confidence and worth for the student body to go on and do great things.

smearig · 03-14-2011, 1:46pm

The good news is if you don't want to pay the ISD's tax rate you can move somewhere else. As a side note, that's the only school which presents a challenge to Lake Travis (where my boys will go) in Texas 4A ball.

C5SilverBullet · 03-14-2011, 1:55pm

A quick Google search for them says their school is a $25 million facility.

smearig · 03-14-2011, 2:01pm

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Originally Posted by C5SilverBullet

A quick Google search for them says their school is a $25 million facility.

Bonds for facilities is one of the best ways to improve schools since the state steals the property tax dollars raised by schools in rich districts. Better facilities helps attract and retain better teachers.

Iron Chef · 03-14-2011, 2:03pm

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Originally Posted by smearig

The good news is if you don't want to pay the ISD's tax rate you can move somewhere else. As a side note, that's the only school which presents a challenge to Lake Travis (where my boys will go) in Texas 4A ball.

I think we actually beat Lake Travis last season. Was a great game.

Scissors · 03-14-2011, 2:08pm

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Originally Posted by Iron Chef

Today, my kids and I went down to the YMCA to do a little workout. They just finished remodeling and it really is a beautiful facility. Olympic pool, indoor track, climbing wall, nice workout area, etc.

I asked my son how this compared with the facility at his school, expecting him to say the Y was much better. He said "It's ok, but ours is a lot nicer." Nicer than this? "Yup." So after we were done, we went past the school to see THEIR new facility. The bottom half of my jaw is still back there. This is high school folks, not TCU, Penn State or Florida. Jiminy Christmas...my tax dollars at work!

State of the are weight room:

Must have thirty of these machines:

With the Aledo logo of course...

And of course there's the new INDOOR practice facility:

What a f*cking waste of money.

Iron Chef · 03-14-2011, 2:13pm

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Originally Posted by Scissors

What a f*cking waste of money.

Why? Because you don't like it?

Bearing in mind that as mentioned before...this was voted for by taxpayers and it is clearly what they wanted, and that the school isn't suffering in other programs, what is wasteful about it, specifically?

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