I live in McKinney Texas. You showed a picture but did not include it. We are right down the road from the Allen stadium you mentioned. The stadium is huge. We do have 3 large high schools and the teams in this area all have nice stadiums and large enrollments. Some of the best football teams in the country are in this area.
don't forget Georgetown Texas stadium, Berger Stadium in Austin, the Pfield in Pflugerville, The Palace in Round Rock, Hutto High School stadium. All 10K+
A note on Legacy: it routinely hosts West Houston band competitions, the district's graduations, and more. I went to high school in this district and have probably been to that stadium for one reason or another over 50 times. The district turned down additional plans for overhead catwalks, underground locker rooms, and more. The stadium is build into the ground as compared to on top of it. Just to its south is Rhodes Stadium, Katy ISD's older stadium. Since the district now has 10 highschools, they need to use both stadiums in order to get all the games done. Rhodes' capacity is just under 10,000.
Lived in Midland, TX for the last 25 years, Odessa Permian vs Midland Lee is a big deal, fans from both Odessa and Midland fill the stadium, 19,500 tickets available is not enough!
TV broadcasting SHOULD BE middle- and high-school level courses. Video and production. Sound recording, mixing. Mobile cameras. Mobile microphones. Mixboards. In reality, this HAS gone on with 10-12-15 year old students since VHS handhelds were available. And all of these skills will be incredibly marketable for decades to come. A lot of schools offer these, as well as broadcast booth announcers, 'color' announcers and employ analysts. Can you imagine a college kid applying for a job with 4-5-6 years' experience in sports broadcasting, video production and more?
i went to Albany high school which is currently 2a D2 program which is the smallest classification for 11 man football in Texas with enrollments under 181. Faith Field at Robert Nail Memorial Stadium can handle 2900 people. a lot of the stadiums in this video are 6a schools which is the largest classification and has a minimum 2275 enrolment though there are some schools with enrollments as large as almost 7000. the biggest difference between the smallest to largest schools is size and features. small schools still feel like what other states might expect a stadium to be but once you get to 4a d2 and above they truly start to rival and in some cases exceed even national d1 college stadiums. its glorious.
As a fellow Canadian, I also marvel at the Texas high school football stadiums. Big or small. New and old. The traditions, rivalries and the financial commitment to athletic facilities. I’ve seen the Mojo vs Lee at Ratliff, been to Alamo in SA, San Angelo, The SAC and Shirley Field in Laredo and many more in smaller towns like La Joya in the valley all the up to Hale Center and Dumas in the panhandle.Even some big middle school stadiums like JFK Middle school in Grand Prarie.its awesome see how Texas treats Friday night's statewide✌
For my mates over seas, and not from TX. Some of these towns will shut down for high school football every Friday night. These schools make Millions of dollars from advertising, tickets, and food/drinks, even the smaller ones. No not the level of college football, but still a lot. It’s a business. Take a look at the field in Denton TX
Allen's stadium record is 21,000. When San Angelo Central (San Angelo Stadium capacity 17,500) hosted them in a playoff game in 2016, the estimated attendance was 24,000. They could have sold 30,000 if the stadium was bigger.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it is worth noting that Lake Travis High School (an ISD in Texas I once live in) usually ranks very high in Texas HS football competition (multiple (5-6?) HS football state championships) but their stadium wasn’t mentioned in your video. Maybe it is because big, fancy stadiums don’t necessarily produce great football teams?
Allen High School has a band that marches at all football games. It has 675 members. For out of town games they require 22 buses & multiple trucks to get there. There are RUclips videos of their band.
And they wonder why these youngsters are so spoiled nowadays. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be saying this, but you are giving them more power and control which is why you have the problems you have today.
You should mention Allen, McKinney, and Frisco all have state of the art stadiums and close together in north Dallas. Frisco ISD plays games at the Dallas Cowboys practice facility. It’s an indoor stadium.
Im born and raised in Texas and I played highschool football here and the atmosphere is amazing. Ive played at a few of these stadiums and the energy is insane! It fuels the players and things get very vicious after kick off. I miss it so much.
There are several others you could have mentioned, including McKinney ISD stadium, and while not exclusively for high school, the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco (indoors, approx 9k capacity), Toyota Stadium (FC Dallas, approx 20k), which are used by all 14 Frisco ISD schools.
Why are press boxes not necessary at highschool games? Some schools draw D1 Recruiters those guys dont watch football they study football. Having a seat for them in the pressbox so they can come scout your star QB or RB or whatever is exactly what you want in texas. Those stadiums might look ridiculously big but they do get packed every week at every game. You do don’t want your staff recording the game from the bleachers with all the crowd noice, you dont want important recruiters to sit with the crowd when he’s there doing his job and not there to enjoy a game. In texas we have coaches sit up in the press box and they talk to the head coach on the headsets etc. a stadium in Texas without a pressbox would be useless
So you said you don't understand. I will try and help, as I played back in the 70's I was born and raised in TX. I played ball in Katy, near Houston. Even back then we had impressive stadiums for the time. When it comes to football, Roll tide and MSU have the market cornered for college ball. However, TX has the market cornered on Hogh School ball. We take it very serious. Many of these kids do go on to play for States then pro. But we take high school serious. Like it or not, it's televised and an important part of TX sports. It encourages students to perform and go on to make something of themselves. Take your kids serious, because your kids are the future. In spite of enterlopers, Texas kids are, as a rule good kids that become our future. What we do to support our kids, shows later. It's why Texas is so great.
I get that high school athletics are all but ignored outside of the US. Football is HUGE in Texas. From Pop Warner games all the way up to the NFL, football games in Texas draw large, paying crowds. It is essential to have stadiums large enough to accommodate the crowds. I think its sad student athletes aren't supported and cheered on in Canada and Europe the way they are in Texas. Its not just the football players. Marching bands, drill teams, color guards, and cheerleaders also participate during the games and help create an amazing atmosphere in the stadiums. As the saying goes, football in Texas is a religion of its own!
Thanks for watching! For our biggest sport in Canada (hockey) high school isn’t the highest level, which I’m sure affects attendance. In terms of support for any high school sport in Canada, at least in my experience it comes in the playoffs or championship games for the most part.
not weird at all texas is the only state with stadiums like this especially of the size because of the school districts and football is an american thing
In the US, especially the South, especially Texas, high school football is a secondary religion behind Christianity. I'm from that state and for some cities and schools that annually have top ranked teams in that sport, honestly I'm surprised they're not bigger. Especially wealthier suburbs like Frisco, Southlake, Katy and Plano.
I played at Pleasant Grove Stadium in the 60's. The lights were on telephone poles. The press box was a plywood and glass affair. You MIGHT get 5 or 6 butt's in there. It rested at the top of the stands, so no stairs much less ELEVATORS. It was painted government grey, so it matched the bleachers which had long since bleached out to grey. Built in 1945, aluminum or steel were still hard to come by, with WW2 and all.
Press box absurd? It's absolutely a necessity. I just worked in one last night producing a live broadcast of a Texas high school game. None of them are big enough. Where do you want coaches, scouts, media, radio broadcasters, and live stream/TV broadcasters to work during a game?
Thanks for watching! Where I’m from we don’t broadcast high school sports unless it’s late playoffs but by then they are played at neutral site professional stadiums, so the idea that high school teams would need a broadcast area is different. With that being said it’s clearly needed in Texas, but maybe not everywhere.
@@ArchivistAthletica Also I know junior hockey is big in Canada with nice arenas and big crowds. Those are high school aged kids. Texas HSFB is the equivalent to that.
Oh yeah absolutely, but those are privately owned teams that are ran like a business which I think is where they differ in my mind, but it makes sense why Texas high schools would need such venues.
Should schools have nice stadiums sure but as you can see most overdo it thinking it will bring them a state title but for most of these schools it won't.
Absurd? You are obviously not a Texan. There is nothing absurd about high school football in Texas. And you didn't mention Alamo Stadium in San Antonio that was built in 1940 by the WPA. It seats 18500 but over 21000 showed up for the 1963 city championship game between Lee and Brackenridge.
People - don’t get mad at me. There have been over 100,000 concussions in Texas amateur sports, mainly football, over the past 5 years. These are the known concussions, by the way. And zero state champions in any sport or any level that were transgender students. Yet people are freaking out over transgender invasions. Let’s be clear - Texas will never do anything about those concussions due to football.
Way to interject the tranny issue into TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. Dude WTF. We reject your Hegelian dialectic and communism in general. We worship the living God and carry the torch for real America.
He didn't mention that high school football game attendances can reach 50,000 for a playoff game.
I live in McKinney Texas. You showed a picture but did not include it. We are right down the road from the Allen stadium you mentioned. The stadium is huge. We do have 3 large high schools and the teams in this area all have nice stadiums and large enrollments. Some of the best football teams in the country are in this area.
Thanks for watching! I think I’m a video or two I’m gonna make a second video, and I’ll make sure it add it!
don't forget Georgetown Texas stadium, Berger Stadium in Austin, the Pfield in Pflugerville, The Palace in Round Rock, Hutto High School stadium. All 10K+
4K spectators? Thats like 3A football stadiums in Texas.
Yeah lol, and 4K would be very large in Canada for a high school specific stadium!
High School football is serious in Texas. Friday Night Lights.
You indicated you are from Canada. Nuff said.
This douchebag is unqualifed to speak on this.
A note on Legacy: it routinely hosts West Houston band competitions, the district's graduations, and more. I went to high school in this district and have probably been to that stadium for one reason or another over 50 times. The district turned down additional plans for overhead catwalks, underground locker rooms, and more. The stadium is build into the ground as compared to on top of it. Just to its south is Rhodes Stadium, Katy ISD's older stadium. Since the district now has 10 highschools, they need to use both stadiums in order to get all the games done. Rhodes' capacity is just under 10,000.
that record attendance was the first ever game at that stadium it was unreal!!!! and they just got a huge new video board
Thanks for watching! That makes sense, were you at the first game?
of course of course and no I wish I've seen videos of it on youtube
Lived in Midland, TX for the last 25 years, Odessa Permian vs Midland Lee is a big deal, fans from both Odessa and Midland fill the stadium, 19,500 tickets available is not enough!
Thanks for watching! That’s awesome, must be a cool feeling as a player to have an atmosphere like that in high school!
TV broadcasting SHOULD BE middle- and high-school level courses. Video and production. Sound recording, mixing. Mobile cameras. Mobile microphones. Mixboards. In reality, this HAS gone on with 10-12-15 year old students since VHS handhelds were available. And all of these skills will be incredibly marketable for decades to come. A lot of schools offer these, as well as broadcast booth announcers, 'color' announcers and employ analysts. Can you imagine a college kid applying for a job with 4-5-6 years' experience in sports broadcasting, video production and more?
Temple, Texas.
It should be noted that Odessa Permian high school and their football team were the inspiration for Friday Night Lights. So the big stadium adds up
That’s a really great movie, I’ve seen it a fair few times! Thanks for watching!
i went to Albany high school which is currently 2a D2 program which is the smallest classification for 11 man football in Texas with enrollments under 181. Faith Field at Robert Nail Memorial Stadium can handle 2900 people. a lot of the stadiums in this video are 6a schools which is the largest classification and has a minimum 2275 enrolment though there are some schools with enrollments as large as almost 7000. the biggest difference between the smallest to largest schools is size and features. small schools still feel like what other states might expect a stadium to be but once you get to 4a d2 and above they truly start to rival and in some cases exceed even national d1 college stadiums. its glorious.
As a fellow Canadian, I also marvel at the Texas high school football stadiums. Big or small. New and old. The traditions, rivalries and the financial commitment to athletic facilities. I’ve seen the Mojo vs Lee at Ratliff, been to Alamo in SA, San Angelo, The SAC and Shirley Field in Laredo and many more in smaller towns like La Joya in the valley all the up to Hale Center and Dumas in the panhandle.Even some big middle school stadiums like JFK Middle school in Grand Prarie.its awesome see how Texas treats Friday night's statewide✌
Thanks for watching! They certainly take it to a whole new level!
For my mates over seas, and not from TX. Some of these towns will shut down for high school football every Friday night. These schools make Millions of dollars from advertising, tickets, and food/drinks, even the smaller ones. No not the level of college football, but still a lot. It’s a business. Take a look at the field in Denton TX
Thanks for watching! I will check that field out!
Allen's stadium record is 21,000. When San Angelo Central (San Angelo Stadium capacity 17,500) hosted them in a playoff game in 2016, the estimated attendance was 24,000. They could have sold 30,000 if the stadium was bigger.
That’s wild! Thanks for the information!
These stadiums are for the ISD Independant School District. Some of the high schools have thousands of students. Allen High Scool has 5,317 (2022-23).
Thanks for watching! That makes sense that the schools would be huge!
Allen has about 7,000 students.
@SheaHarris hence, the need for large facilities, thanks for the enrollment #
Maybe I’m missing something, but it is worth noting that Lake Travis High School (an ISD in Texas I once live in) usually ranks very high in Texas HS football competition (multiple (5-6?) HS football state championships) but their stadium wasn’t mentioned in your video. Maybe it is because big, fancy stadiums don’t necessarily produce great football teams?
Thanks for watching! It might feature in a part 2 down the line
Allen High School has a band that marches at all football games. It has 675 members. For out of town games they require 22 buses & multiple trucks to get there. There are RUclips videos of their band.
Thanks for sharing! I’ll have to check it out!
And they wonder why these youngsters are so spoiled nowadays. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be saying this, but you are giving them more power and control which is why you have the problems you have today.
You should mention Allen, McKinney, and Frisco all have state of the art stadiums and close together in north Dallas. Frisco ISD plays games at the Dallas Cowboys practice facility. It’s an indoor stadium.
Im born and raised in Texas and I played highschool football here and the atmosphere is amazing. Ive played at a few of these stadiums and the energy is insane! It fuels the players and things get very vicious after kick off. I miss it so much.
Thanks for watching! Wow that’s awesome, yeah I’m sure playing in these stadiums would have been quite the experience!
@@ArchivistAthletica go to a game if you ever get the chance. And come hungry, the foods good too.
If I am ever in Texas I’ll make sure to go to a game!
There are several others you could have mentioned, including McKinney ISD stadium, and while not exclusively for high school, the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco (indoors, approx 9k capacity), Toyota Stadium (FC Dallas, approx 20k), which are used by all 14 Frisco ISD schools.
Do Southlake carroll and HEBisd Pennington field.
Why are press boxes not necessary at highschool games? Some schools draw D1 Recruiters those guys dont watch football they study football. Having a seat for them in the pressbox so they can come scout your star QB or RB or whatever is exactly what you want in texas. Those stadiums might look ridiculously big but they do get packed every week at every game. You do don’t want your staff recording the game from the bleachers with all the crowd noice, you dont want important recruiters to sit with the crowd when he’s there doing his job and not there to enjoy a game. In texas we have coaches sit up in the press box and they talk to the head coach on the headsets etc. a stadium in Texas without a pressbox would be useless
I have no doubt that they are a necessity in Texas, but for a majority of places they are not a necessity for high school sports.
You should look at San Antonio ISD stadium
Thanks for watching! I’ll check it out, maybe I should make a second video on High school stadiums in Texas
So you said you don't understand. I will try and help, as I played back in the 70's I was born and raised in TX. I played ball in Katy, near Houston. Even back then we had impressive stadiums for the time. When it comes to football, Roll tide and MSU have the market cornered for college ball. However, TX has the market cornered on Hogh School ball. We take it very serious. Many of these kids do go on to play for States then pro. But we take high school serious. Like it or not, it's televised and an important part of TX sports. It encourages students to perform and go on to make something of themselves. Take your kids serious, because your kids are the future. In spite of enterlopers, Texas kids are, as a rule good kids that become our future. What we do to support our kids, shows later. It's why Texas is so great.
I get that high school athletics are all but ignored outside of the US. Football is HUGE in Texas. From Pop Warner games all the way up to the NFL, football games in Texas draw large, paying crowds. It is essential to have stadiums large enough to accommodate the crowds. I think its sad student athletes aren't supported and cheered on in Canada and Europe the way they are in Texas. Its not just the football players. Marching bands, drill teams, color guards, and cheerleaders also participate during the games and help create an amazing atmosphere in the stadiums. As the saying goes, football in Texas is a religion of its own!
Thanks for watching! For our biggest sport in Canada (hockey) high school isn’t the highest level, which I’m sure affects attendance. In terms of support for any high school sport in Canada, at least in my experience it comes in the playoffs or championship games for the most part.
Bro didn’t even mention prosper or McKinney isd stadium
Sounds like I’m gonna have to make a second video! Thanks for watching
@@ArchivistAthletica maybe i'm biased because its my old high school's stadium, but don't forget Dragon Stadium in Southlake!
I’ll check it out thanks for the suggestion!
McKinney ISD's was briefly shown in the beginning of the video, after he talked about college stadiums.
At one time these would have been good pro stadiums, and they’re only getting bigger.
Add Prosper ISD Stadium to your list! Went there for a playoff game. It was incredibly nice. Poor taxpayers lol!
the first ever football stadium i went to was fcu stadium and it did feel like i was watching a game at a higher lefel
Thanks for watching! That’s cool, how did you like it?
This video blew up but it also upset a lot of people as well lol.
This is crazy. In the UK, the idea of a school having a stadium at all is daft, let alone one that seats 10,000+. American sports are weird.
Thanks for watching! Yeah it’s quite different from anything I would expect as well!
not weird at all texas is the only state with stadiums like this especially of the size because of the school districts and football is an american thing
In the US, especially the South, especially Texas, high school football is a secondary religion behind Christianity. I'm from that state and for some cities and schools that annually have top ranked teams in that sport, honestly I'm surprised they're not bigger. Especially wealthier suburbs like Frisco, Southlake, Katy and Plano.
@@cultusdeus i love how u worded secondary religiom lmao im from texas to your spot on
@@ArchivistAthleticaDo you understand junior hockey? High school age kids playing in often pro-caliber arenas to large crowds.
I played at Plano East in the late 90s and our stadium seated 15k
Thanks for watching! And thanks for sharing that’s really awesome, what position did you play?
I played at Pleasant Grove Stadium in the 60's. The lights were on telephone poles. The press box was a plywood and glass affair. You MIGHT get 5 or 6 butt's in there. It rested at the top of the stands, so no stairs much less ELEVATORS. It was painted government grey, so it matched the bleachers which had long since bleached out to grey. Built in 1945, aluminum or steel were still hard to come by, with WW2 and all.
They build those stadiums cause they get the crowds for a lot of those games.
No Prosper high stadium?
Thanks for watching! I think a second video is on the cards, there are many more I could add!
@@ArchivistAthletica it was a great video, being from prosper, It is a nice venue!
In Hs my senior year in the playoffs one of our games had 30k fans at the game… I went to a 5A school not even 6A lol football is religion in Texas
Thanks for watching, it certainly seems like it!
Friday Night Lights
Mojo Mojo Mojo
Look up the book and movie
Thanks! I’ve actually seen the movie a few times, it’s very good!
Press box absurd? It's absolutely a necessity. I just worked in one last night producing a live broadcast of a Texas high school game. None of them are big enough. Where do you want coaches, scouts, media, radio broadcasters, and live stream/TV broadcasters to work during a game?
Thanks for watching! Where I’m from we don’t broadcast high school sports unless it’s late playoffs but by then they are played at neutral site professional stadiums, so the idea that high school teams would need a broadcast area is different. With that being said it’s clearly needed in Texas, but maybe not everywhere.
@@ArchivistAthletica For football any game will need a press box. There are coach boxes and scoreboard operators and PA announcers at the least.
@@ArchivistAthletica Also I know junior hockey is big in Canada with nice arenas and big crowds. Those are high school aged kids. Texas HSFB is the equivalent to that.
Oh yeah absolutely, but those are privately owned teams that are ran like a business which I think is where they differ in my mind, but it makes sense why Texas high schools would need such venues.
Should schools have nice stadiums sure but as you can see most overdo it thinking it will bring them a state title but for most of these schools it won't.
Yeah it’s wild!
No grande? UTPB abandoned Ratliff for Grande.
Thanks for watching! Maybe it will make a part two!
Absurd? You are obviously not a Texan. There is nothing absurd about high school football in Texas. And you didn't mention Alamo Stadium in San Antonio that was built in 1940 by the WPA. It seats 18500 but over 21000 showed up for the 1963 city championship game between Lee and Brackenridge.
Thanks for watching! Nope not a Texan I’m Canadian.
People - don’t get mad at me. There have been over 100,000 concussions in Texas amateur sports, mainly football, over the past 5 years. These are the known concussions, by the way. And zero state champions in any sport or any level that were transgender students. Yet people are freaking out over transgender invasions. Let’s be clear - Texas will never do anything about those concussions due to football.
Way to interject the tranny issue into TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. Dude WTF.
We reject your Hegelian dialectic and communism in general. We worship the living God and carry the torch for real America.
1:34 Bronchos? No, they’re the BRONCOS.
Thanks for the clarification, the site I saw had it spelled Broncho but it looks like that doesn’t change the pronunciation.
@@ArchivistAthletica the site was wrong, I would’ve pronounced the way you did had I read it that way.
@@ArchivistAthleticaeither way bro, wtf is a ‘broncho’?? 🤣😂🤣
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