You got forgot to do Katy ISD stadium, which is most expensive school district stadium in America. It’s in Houston. Not to mention it’s still pretty new.
Dragon Stadium hosted MLS soccer games until FC Dallas' real stadium was built in Frisco. That's insane that a HS footbal field is good enough to accommodate pro sports for a couple years.
What is really crazy is that five of these are in the far north Dallas suburbs. The cities of Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, Melissa, and Allen all border one another. A sixth one, Mesquite, is on the east side of Dallas and is about 35 minutes from Allen.
I've had marching contests at Mckinney and Mesquite, my high school played a playoff game in freezing weather at Prosper, and I can't count how many times I've driven past Allen's stadium. Not to mention my graduation was at the Star. It's something about North Texas man 🤣🤣🤣
I live just down the street from McKinney ISD Stadium. I want to go to the D2 National championship game, and I could walk there just to save money on parking.
My high school outside of Houston will be finishing up its massive football stadium in a few weeks, it’s gonna hold 10,000 folks, which for a city of 30,000 is wild lol
My high schools stadium holds 11000 for a city with 26000 people. Our school also has one of the biggest high school rivalry’s in our state so kinda makes sense ig
I played at Euless Trinity back in ‘05-‘08 at Pennington Field. Can confirm DFW boasts some of the most majestic stadiums for high school football. Most of these were built after I played, but I still love coaching and taking in the religion that is Texas football.
@@brandond4883it’s kind of like Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium. On a single Saturday, Lincoln becomes the second or third most populous city in Nebraska simply because the Huskers are playing 😆
@@RushFanatic87 Our stadium was built quite some time ago when our population was much smaller. It was a gift to the school from the Hobart brothers. And they also gifted the city land for our golf course, our high schools baseball stadium, and Hobart arena. But our stadium is able to uphold the max capacity we have the arena parking lot next to the stadium which allows for 1000s to park for the games, our conference is also pretty competitive. We just had turf installed over the summer and it looks very nice and we added a video scoreboard. Our stadium is the 5th or 6th largest high school stadium for high school use only. Other lists will include college/hs stadiums that are dual purpose. Still pretty cool!
In 1977, the Patriots drafted WR Stanley Morgan. He and his wife drove to Foxboro to check out Schaefer Stadium. His wife said, "That's a High School field." Morgan replied, "No, that's it."
For the record, Texas High School Football is sacred, almost a religion. These people will drive from El Paso to Beaumont, the entire length of the State of Texas, east to west (12 hours, nearly 850 miles), to watch their HS home team play in an away game. ESPECIALLY during the State Championship tournament. If that means shutting down the town so people can go, they will do it. The movie Friday Night Lights (2004) and TV series with the same name (2006-2011) portrays the entire culture pretty well. Imagine playing in the stadium in the intro, then eventually make it to the NFL and end up with the disappointment of playing at Northwest Federal Credit Union Stadium, previously known as FedEx Field.
as a fellow Texan, this is real. my 3a Comanche Indians once played in Cherokee stadium in Dallas against gunter and we traveled the 3-hour trip up there to see our boys get shellacked by gunter. that stadium was at like 50% capacity and it holds 48,000. for any non-Texans 3a schools are like towns 2,000 to 7,000 people and we played in an XFL stadium at half capacity of playoffs.
The whole area, especially those north Dallas suburbs, is just exploding population-wise. I think some of these newer ones (ie Melissa) are designed as much for future growth as they are for current student populations and trying to lure in other events outside of HS football.
@@mattbriddell9246 not really, because Melissa already filled out their stadium. Just went to the game last night. They might need a bigger stadium in 4 to 6 years honestly.
I live in Frisco, about 10 minutes from McKinney Stdm, Allen Stdm and Prosper Stdm. Plus, my high school played in The Star most Thursdays! Every facility was super clean, and well prepped.
Come check out Fergie Jenkins field in the Canadian baseball small town minor league, home of the Chatham Kent Barnstormers next season. It would be great to have you!
I live just down the street from McKinney ISD Stadium. It's impressive. Allen ISD stadium is maybe 10 minutes away. Melissa ISD used to be a blip on the radar. I was in high school in the late '90s, and Melissa kids had to go to school in McKinney, they've massively grown, as has the whole area, and yes, in Texas, High School Football is King. And Kyler Murray was a standout at Allen High School.
Here's hoping even a fraction of the money that gets invested into these stadiums is also invested in school infrastructure. I can't imagine being a kid going to a rundown Texas high school knowing that all the money went to a stadium for a sport they might not care about.
It is only a feaction of the bonds passed for the schools. Crowley built a new stadium in 2021 for around 50 mil out of a 416mil bond in 2007. The city recently passed in 2022 another 1.1bil bond in additional funding on top of state allocated money.
Love the CKD in Melissa! They put thought for the kids back into it and the stadium houses a broadcasting room in which the students run all the broadcasting and cameras, indoor facility on end is the largest in all of Texas and caters to every sport, band, and pro training facilities for students that go into sports medicine profession. It’s wild how the massive complex itself is a profession training tool for the kids
I recommend the Reitz Bowl in Evansville, IN. Located on the west side of Evansville on a hill, this 10,000 seat bowl shaped stadium is the Home stadium to Evansville Reitz and Evansville Mater Dei. The field is a bowl stadium that overlooks downtown Evansville and the Ohio River. Reitz and Mater Dei traditionally end the regular season against one another with the winner getting the West Side Nut Club Golden Acorn trophy.
Back in the day, my old high school San Bernardino High School (California) football field was crabgrass and devil's grass. And yes, the occasional irrigation system coming on during the game, and sprinklers that wouldn't retract afterwards...good times!!!
I grew up in McKinney and unfortunately just missed the cutoff of going to the new stadium as a student. I returned for a weekend to visit some friends in band and was in awe of the stadium. It's truly a marvel that the city has embraced. We love our football in Texas
3:58 State Championship games have not been played in Massolin for a while now. My dad played a state ship game their in 94, it has now been moved to Canton for at least 20 years now
I worked the video board as a camera operator for Prosper ISD Stadium. It’s honestly insane, we have video equipment on par with, in some cases better, than the minor league teams and local MLS team nearby. High school football in Texas is absolutely different.
Ive actually played on the Stadium High School field it is like playing on carpet, and you can't wear cleats on it so regular shoes are required but you have zero grip
I had thought my high school's stadium was something to brag about, and we had a pretty decent football team that made it to the playoffs in 2011, but that all came crashing down to Petal High School in Petal, Mississippi. I could not believe that was a stadium meant for high schoolers. It was on another level and so was their team!
One of the reasons high schools in the Dallas area are so overbuilt is because they are experiencing massive growth; they are over-building now rather than in the future when the cost will be much higher.
Couple things to note here: I work in Allen ISD and I drive by that stadium a ton. It's pretty wild to look at. Allen did win four state championships after the stadium opened, mostly because some kid named Kyler Murray went there and won three in a row. Melissa was kinda getting dunked on in this video for having such a small school population, but when you look at the city geographically and compare that to another city with a stadium on this list, Prosper, whose population has utterly exploded over the past 10 years or so, it's understandable why Melissa built a stadium because their city government anticipated this growth. According to wikipedia, their city's population was only 557 in 1990 and over the course of 30 years has grown to over 15,000. Melissa's city population has even doubled from 2018-2022.
While not the official stadium, I went to marshall high in Portland before it closed down. Marshall's campus is only a few blocks from walker stadium, the ballpark the pickles use. At the time the pickles didn't exist but the city kept up the stadium. Our high school's baseball field was AWFUL. Felt like you were sliding on concrete and the orientation of the field had every one staring into the sun except for the third baseman, catcher, and batter. As a pitcher it sucked. So, we always just played our games at walker stadium. High school players and their coaches from a public school team jumping the fences to use a city's stadium. No one ever stopped us. Was a pretty sick place to play lol.
Both the McKinney and Mesquite stadiums play host to Drum Corps International competitions and they are great venues for the marching arts! It was fun to perform there
I visited the Stadium Bowl once after the high school had a major renovation, school expansion, and built a 2 level parking garage that is topped off with tennis courts which are seen in the video. So that stadium has been checked off the list. Gates are locked off at the top next to the school where the ticket booth is and at the bottom of the hill at the opposite end. But during the weekends the locals just climb over them to get in so they could lounge/sunbathe and jog on the track.
mckinney melissa and allen isd are all highly ranked performing districts in the state of texas and coincidentally all within a 20 minute drive of each other you should see the inside of each of their high schools they go all out on academics too🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Melissa is growing rapidly in one of the fastest growing areas of the country. That's how it is in DFW. Schools that were tiny 10 years ago, have moved up to the larger classifications in a few years. Even in the southern suburbs, look at the beast of a district brewing in southern Dallas county where Duncanville and DeSoto already reside as the smaller schools grow.
When I was in high school, West Mesquite was a rival of my hometown of Terrell. I was in the marching band and thus went to games at the stadium. Even though it was before the renovation, it was still considered an event to play games there.
I'm originally from El Paso, Tx and all the high schools had a stadium. Most older schools had a one side concrete stadium and aluminum across the field for the marching bands and over the course of time the new schools had built aluminum stadiums and Texas doesn't mess around when it comes to football as they take it very seriously. Nowadays almost all schools have turf and I don't think any schools have real grass anymore. Crazy.
My favorite by far is Stadium Bowl in Tacoma. I hope they’re keeping that place up to code now because that’s an incredible environment and atmosphere. It seems like a fantastic place to see a game.
Ohio doesn't have districts in football. Only Divisions (7) and Regions (4 per division). Also Paul Brown Tiger Stadium hasn't been a scheduled host of the state championships since 2013. All 7 title games are now played at Tom Benson HOF Stadium (formerly Fawsett Stadium) in Canton. Tiger Stadium did host some of the title games in 2020 due to the Pandemic.
Saw video title. Expected at least half the featured stadiums to be in Texas. Was not disappointed- or surprised. Plenty of other honorable mentions in other states, including J Birney Crum in Allentown PA, Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids IA, Valley Stadium in West Des Moines IA, Grand Blanc HS in Grand Blanc MI, the Reitz Bowl in Evansville IN, Dutch Clark Stadium in Pueblo CO, Watson Stadium in Hobbs NM, Johansen HS Stadium in Clovis CA, Stagg Stadium in Salem VA, Roosevelt Stadium in Union City NJ (that's the one that's literally on the roof of the school), Mitchell Field in Bluefield WV, Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport CT, the recently rebuilt Tuttle Stadium in Tulsa OK, West Monroe LA HS Stadium, Dobbins-Bennett HS in Kingsport TN, Traz Powell Stadium in Miami FL, Dorman HS near Spartanburg SC, Memorial Stadium in Everett WA and the Kiggins Bowl in Vancouver WA (tiny but classic design in an absolutely GORGEOUS setting).
Although i dont live in America, my high school had 2 football fields. One being just a random spot in the school yard where they just plopped a couple of goal posts. The other was my towns main field, which looked like if the Oakland Coliseum had even more of a stroke.
As an American, I'm proud that your high school follow the sport! It's not a big _wallet_ that determines how good an athlete becomes. It's a huge _heart_ . 🏈
6 of them in the DFW area. I attended Allen HS from 1997-2000 long before that stadium was built. Did get to be the first class to graduate from that newer HS. Although I liked the old school better.
Katy HS was ranked 64th in Texas before destroying Longview in the '97 state final. That Katy team produced two NFL players. Media sleeping on Katy is a long tradition.
Including Canton always feels weird to me as a Packers fans because it allows me to accurately argue Green Bay East had the largest high school stadium ever since they shared with the Packers until 1956. Obviously that is stupid but its the same thing behind Canton.
Would be cool to see the stadiums of some of the most successful hs football teams. Like if having all the best really translates to on field performance
Had a playoff game at Mesquite Memorial my junior year of high school. Then, 20 years later, I was coaching playoff baseball at the baseball stadium adjacent to Mesquite Memorial.
San Antonio got robbed with Alamo stadium being left out. 18,500 seating 3rd largest highschool stadium in Texas BUILT IN 1940. THE ORIGINAL outlandish highschool stadium
McKinney isn't the only stadium to host an NCAA national title, in Shenandoah they have a stadium called Woodforest Bank Stadium and it's hosted 2 D3 national title games in 2018 and 19. Woodforest is just under 10k cap according to wiki.
If you haven't already taken a look at Rock Island Public Schools Stadium in Rock Island, Illinois, you should. It is almost 100 years old and has a capacity of 15000 and is used by one high school.
I'm sure it's been updated by now, but as of 2010, Stadium High School was the only field in our district that still had the old style astro turf. So we couldn't wear regular cleats when we played there. Everyone had to wear tennis shoes.
This reminds me of when folks went by my old high school asking which college was this. It is one of the largest schools in the mitten state so while we do not have large high school stadiums in the state; the stadium is one the largest in the state.
My aunt and uncle live right down the street from the McKinney stadium. It really screwed up the property taxes and they said it took away from the arts budget, which is unfortunate because the arts are important and their band is really good. They just wanted to outdo Allen High’s stadium. If you know Texas high school football, EVERYTHING is a competition including where the game is played. Also, everybody in DFW hates Allen, they literally cheat by paying family’s with kids who are good at football to move to Allen. I was in band in high school and half of Allen’s marching band didn’t even play their instruments, they were so massive they couldn’t even march on a regular sized field.
Just want to point out that 4 of these stadiums are located within the same 5-6 mile radius in the eastern part of Collin County, Texas: Prosper, Allen, McKinney and the Ford Center. Toyota Stadium (Home of FC Dallas) is a 20k seat venue that also hosts Frisco ISD games every weekend and is in this radius.
3:58 This is slightly outdated, as the OHSAA State Championship games were hosted at the hall of fame stadium in 2024, which, is quite ironic because it is the home field of canton-mckinleny, their biggest, and I mean BIGGEST rival
Also, located just a few short miles from the Berry Center is Legacy Stadium, a 73-million dollar 12,000 seat stadium located bout 100 yards from Rhodes Stadium, ANOTHER KatyISD Stadium, with just under 10,000 seats. (Yes, we have TWO right next to each other).
I saw a news feature on Allen High School. The school district didn't want to divide resources amongst several high schools, so the district just kept adding on to Allen HS. The school enrollment was 5,300 at the time of the report. No wonder everything at that school is huge.
Children’s Health in Prosper now hosts 3 Prosper ISD High Schools and will soon add a 4th. However, the residents reached their limit when the school board proposed a ridiculous 94 million dollar 8,000 seat overflow stadium (4000 seats less than Children’s Health). That bond was soundly defeated last year. Even Texas has its limits when it comes to football!
I grew up in Dallas...Mesquite HS and Garland HS (two suburbs of Dallas) have always been powerhouses of HS football...remember, HS football is like religion in Texas...
In my playing days I have been to 2 High School facilities that were super nice. One Facility had automatic flushing toilets and both had very nice fields. That's bad ass that HS teams have indoor stadiums.
I went to the season opener of Melissa versus Argyle in 2023 someone who’s not from Texas it was unreal seeing that this is a stadium made for high school kids to play in
It's weird looking back at the list of best high school football stadiums from like 2008. They were a lot smaller, and most, if not all, would not be on that list today.
If you do another video of this sort, check out McEachern High School in Powder Springs, GA. That whole campus, it's history, and the various sports fields spread about it are worth a look even if it doesn't make it to a video lol
A few years ago I was covering high school football for the Austin American-Statesman and got sent to a game at a stadium in Round Rock. The press box was massive and fully catered. I once accompanied a friend of mine to the press box at Ball State University in Indiana and it was pathetic by comparison.
I’m surprised legacy stadium in Katy wasn’t on the list. Built for 70.3 million with a 12,000 seating capacity, press boxes with TVs, and the area that it sits on has a naming rights deal with Academy
It's crazy how much parking each of these stadiums has... check out the MCG in melbourne australia, 100k capacity and lucky to be 500 car parks. I was at the SCG in Sydney on the weekend, 45k people and again there'd be space for maybe 1000 cars and that's it
I’ve said this before but the UFL teams in TX should play at one of the high school stadiums to give a better appearance of attendance on tv. These stadiums are just as nice as the college stadiums but smaller. They could pack the stadium with fans and make it look like their games are sold out.
I feel like Ralph Engelstad Arena in Thief River Falls, MN (Not the one in Grand Forks that is for the University of North Dakota) is the Minnesota HS hockey arena equivalent of Texas HS football stadiums.
I remember playing a football game in middle school where the field literally had a bump around the 30 yard line. Normally this wouldn't be a problem. But when I say bump, I mean a good 10 foot around diameter foothill was just hanging out and they painted over it. It is a miracle no one tripped and got hurt.
As someone who's lived in the greater DFW area for practically all of my college/adult life, I'd say you pretty well captured the absurdity of HS football around here. It's a religion and literally shuts down entire towns on Friday nights. You should check out my old HS stadium in Jacksonville, TX called the Tomato Bowl. Originally built in the depression of the 1930s by the WPA, it got a big face lift in 2020 which makes for a cool before/after comparison. Growing up it was always considered a shrine of TX HS football, even if it was old and decrepit.
The Tacoma Stadium is the best. I live in the Midwest and driving to see game there is on my bucket list of places to go. Fancy jumbo tons don't excite me!
friscoisd also plays football in toyota stadium, which they share with fc dallas. infact while every fisd school as a football field on campus, they do not play games there. wild
Pretty much all of these Texas football fields are within 30-45 minutes of each other, and I've played or been to most of them. Unfortunately, my high school with an absured 26 million dollar stadium with fewer students than Melissa didn't make the list.
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Look at denham springs HS in Louisiana
You got forgot to do Katy ISD stadium, which is most expensive school district stadium in America. It’s in Houston. Not to mention it’s still pretty new.
the record attendance at allen stadium is 21,766 and it looked insane its actually in one of the pics in the video
In short: Texas really likes football
@@JayDaGod_1 Texas cares about three things football, god, and bbq. In that order
@@cody9325You forgot the most important thing Texas cares about.....Texas itself
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the football fields.
@@justinbonds2002 you ain’t wrong about that. See more Texas flags than American ones down there I swear.
As a Texan I can agree
These stadiums are where the "Big Game" happens in high school movies
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Or in the case of Texas, the Cowboys' other indoor stadium aka their indoor practice facility.
Having played in DIstrict 4-6A at VR Eaton High School, the stadiums are just insane. Dragon Stadium in Southlake is easily my favorite!!
No way I was on track to go there but then we moved to Keller and I went to Timber Creek, also in 4-6A!
Ayyy my brother went there, I would’ve as well but it was still under construction when I was in high school
Dragon Stadium hosted MLS soccer games until FC Dallas' real stadium was built in Frisco. That's insane that a HS footbal field is good enough to accommodate pro sports for a couple years.
What is really crazy is that five of these are in the far north Dallas suburbs. The cities of Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, Melissa, and Allen all border one another. A sixth one, Mesquite, is on the east side of Dallas and is about 35 minutes from Allen.
El Paso High School is pretty unique. Not that it cost a lot. Just a cool setting.
Yes, and it’s actually a protected landmark. Such a cool place. I’d like to get there some day to take in a game.
I've had marching contests at Mckinney and Mesquite, my high school played a playoff game in freezing weather at Prosper, and I can't count how many times I've driven past Allen's stadium. Not to mention my graduation was at the Star. It's something about North Texas man 🤣🤣🤣
I live just down the street from McKinney ISD Stadium. I want to go to the D2 National championship game, and I could walk there just to save money on parking.
My high school outside of Houston will be finishing up its massive football stadium in a few weeks, it’s gonna hold 10,000 folks, which for a city of 30,000 is wild lol
My high schools stadium holds 11000 for a city with 26000 people. Our school also has one of the biggest high school rivalry’s in our state so kinda makes sense ig
I played at Euless Trinity back in ‘05-‘08 at Pennington Field. Can confirm DFW boasts some of the most majestic stadiums for high school football. Most of these were built after I played, but I still love coaching and taking in the religion that is Texas football.
@@brandond4883it’s kind of like Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium. On a single Saturday, Lincoln becomes the second or third most populous city in Nebraska simply because the Huskers are playing 😆
@@RushFanatic87 Our stadium was built quite some time ago when our population was much smaller. It was a gift to the school from the Hobart brothers. And they also gifted the city land for our golf course, our high schools baseball stadium, and Hobart arena. But our stadium is able to uphold the max capacity we have the arena parking lot next to the stadium which allows for 1000s to park for the games, our conference is also pretty competitive. We just had turf installed over the summer and it looks very nice and we added a video scoreboard. Our stadium is the 5th or 6th largest high school stadium for high school use only. Other lists will include college/hs stadiums that are dual purpose. Still pretty cool!
In 1977, the Patriots drafted WR Stanley Morgan. He and his wife drove to Foxboro to check out Schaefer Stadium. His wife said, "That's a High School field." Morgan replied, "No, that's it."
For the record, Texas High School Football is sacred, almost a religion. These people will drive from El Paso to Beaumont, the entire length of the State of Texas, east to west (12 hours, nearly 850 miles), to watch their HS home team play in an away game. ESPECIALLY during the State Championship tournament. If that means shutting down the town so people can go, they will do it. The movie Friday Night Lights (2004) and TV series with the same name (2006-2011) portrays the entire culture pretty well. Imagine playing in the stadium in the intro, then eventually make it to the NFL and end up with the disappointment of playing at Northwest Federal Credit Union Stadium, previously known as FedEx Field.
as a fellow Texan, this is real. my 3a Comanche Indians once played in Cherokee stadium in Dallas against gunter and we traveled the 3-hour trip up there to see our boys get shellacked by gunter. that stadium was at like 50% capacity and it holds 48,000. for any non-Texans 3a schools are like towns 2,000 to 7,000 people and we played in an XFL stadium at half capacity of playoffs.
How are you gonna spend $10+ million on your high school's football stadium and then still just copy an NFL/College team's logo lmao
Becuase NFL is non profit
I jog every evening to CY-Fair and finally saw it lit up since moving here. It’s a perfect piece of architecture!
People in Texas love football as much as Indiana loving their basketball
i find it funny that 6 of these are in the DFW area. i've gone by a few of them.
Crazy how DFW has so many of these stadiums.
We really really like football here
The whole area, especially those north Dallas suburbs, is just exploding population-wise. I think some of these newer ones (ie Melissa) are designed as much for future growth as they are for current student populations and trying to lure in other events outside of HS football.
@@mattbriddell9246 not really, because Melissa already filled out their stadium. Just went to the game last night. They might need a bigger stadium in 4 to 6 years honestly.
Massive population boom with shit tons of new money. Like obscenely rich fucks.
I live in Frisco, about 10 minutes from McKinney Stdm, Allen Stdm and Prosper Stdm. Plus, my high school played in The Star most Thursdays! Every facility was super clean, and well prepped.
Come check out Fergie Jenkins field in the Canadian baseball small town minor league, home of the Chatham Kent Barnstormers next season. It would be great to have you!
I live just down the street from McKinney ISD Stadium. It's impressive. Allen ISD stadium is maybe 10 minutes away. Melissa ISD used to be a blip on the radar. I was in high school in the late '90s, and Melissa kids had to go to school in McKinney, they've massively grown, as has the whole area, and yes, in Texas, High School Football is King. And Kyler Murray was a standout at Allen High School.
Here's hoping even a fraction of the money that gets invested into these stadiums is also invested in school infrastructure. I can't imagine being a kid going to a rundown Texas high school knowing that all the money went to a stadium for a sport they might not care about.
It definitely is. Most schools on this list (at least the Texan ones), are extremely nice
It is only a feaction of the bonds passed for the schools. Crowley built a new stadium in 2021 for around 50 mil out of a 416mil bond in 2007. The city recently passed in 2022 another 1.1bil bond in additional funding on top of state allocated money.
I love it! I think the best part is there are 3 or 4 stadiums on the list within 35-45 minutes of each other.
yeah frisco allen mckinney and melissa are like 25-30 minutes away from each other and mesquite is like a 30 minutes drive down south from all of them
@@qtxesco2294 prosper is about 35-4 min too. And one stadium not mentioned is Anna Coyote’s. It’s just as nice as any of these it’s just not as large.
The stadium bowl and stadium HS is bad ass looking, the views and architecture looks amazing
Love the CKD in Melissa! They put thought for the kids back into it and the stadium houses a broadcasting room in which the students run all the broadcasting and cameras, indoor facility on end is the largest in all of Texas and caters to every sport, band, and pro training facilities for students that go into sports medicine profession. It’s wild how the massive complex itself is a profession training tool for the kids
I recommend the Reitz Bowl in Evansville, IN. Located on the west side of Evansville on a hill, this 10,000 seat bowl shaped stadium is the Home stadium to Evansville Reitz and Evansville Mater Dei. The field is a bowl stadium that overlooks downtown Evansville and the Ohio River. Reitz and Mater Dei traditionally end the regular season against one another with the winner getting the West Side Nut Club Golden Acorn trophy.
Such good stadium content😭
Back in the day, my old high school San Bernardino High School (California) football field was crabgrass and devil's grass. And yes, the occasional irrigation system coming on during the game, and sprinklers that wouldn't retract afterwards...good times!!!
I grew up in McKinney and unfortunately just missed the cutoff of going to the new stadium as a student. I returned for a weekend to visit some friends in band and was in awe of the stadium. It's truly a marvel that the city has embraced. We love our football in Texas
3:58 State Championship games have not been played in Massolin for a while now. My dad played a state ship game their in 94, it has now been moved to Canton for at least 20 years now
Worth noting that Prosper's stadium is currently shared by three high schools, and a fourth high school is opening in the district next fall.
wasnt there a football stadium in katy, Texas that was also in the news for how big it was?
no pun intended...fivepoints lol
Yep there was, opened like 7 years ago.
@@laurenmp7486 thank you for the confirmation. kind of shock it didnt make the video.
Yeah I went there. $70 mil only got funding cuz the bill included a new jr high. Such a great facility and has a chik fil a in it. Legacy stadium >>>
@@danielmartin9057 heck yeah
oh my word I just looked up the stadium, they built it north of the old stadium called Jack Rhodes Memorial Stadium! Texas, YOU ARE INSANE!
Best Part? MISD middle schools get to play there up too 3 times a year
Midland? Mesquite? Witch ones?
@@ThatC1official McKinney
@@ThatC1officialmidland middle schools also play there multiple times a year. I played in it twice a year.
I worked the video board as a camera operator for Prosper ISD Stadium. It’s honestly insane, we have video equipment on par with, in some cases better, than the minor league teams and local MLS team nearby. High school football in Texas is absolutely different.
Ive actually played on the Stadium High School field it is like playing on carpet, and you can't wear cleats on it so regular shoes are required but you have zero grip
I had thought my high school's stadium was something to brag about, and we had a pretty decent football team that made it to the playoffs in 2011, but that all came crashing down to Petal High School in Petal, Mississippi. I could not believe that was a stadium meant for high schoolers. It was on another level and so was their team!
One of the reasons high schools in the Dallas area are so overbuilt is because they are experiencing massive growth; they are over-building now rather than in the future when the cost will be much higher.
Couple things to note here:
I work in Allen ISD and I drive by that stadium a ton. It's pretty wild to look at.
Allen did win four state championships after the stadium opened, mostly because some kid named Kyler Murray went there and won three in a row.
Melissa was kinda getting dunked on in this video for having such a small school population, but when you look at the city geographically and compare that to another city with a stadium on this list, Prosper, whose population has utterly exploded over the past 10 years or so, it's understandable why Melissa built a stadium because their city government anticipated this growth. According to wikipedia, their city's population was only 557 in 1990 and over the course of 30 years has grown to over 15,000. Melissa's city population has even doubled from 2018-2022.
I went to the Tom Benson Hall of Fame stadium for the 2023 USFL Championship between the Stallions and Maulers
While not the official stadium, I went to marshall high in Portland before it closed down. Marshall's campus is only a few blocks from walker stadium, the ballpark the pickles use. At the time the pickles didn't exist but the city kept up the stadium. Our high school's baseball field was AWFUL. Felt like you were sliding on concrete and the orientation of the field had every one staring into the sun except for the third baseman, catcher, and batter. As a pitcher it sucked. So, we always just played our games at walker stadium. High school players and their coaches from a public school team jumping the fences to use a city's stadium. No one ever stopped us. Was a pretty sick place to play lol.
Both the McKinney and Mesquite stadiums play host to Drum Corps International competitions and they are great venues for the marching arts! It was fun to perform there
I visited the Stadium Bowl once after the high school had a major renovation, school expansion, and built a 2 level parking garage that is topped off with tennis courts which are seen in the video. So that stadium has been checked off the list. Gates are locked off at the top next to the school where the ticket booth is and at the bottom of the hill at the opposite end. But during the weekends the locals just climb over them to get in so they could lounge/sunbathe and jog on the track.
Now show their average GPAs
mckinney melissa and allen isd are all highly ranked performing districts in the state of texas and coincidentally all within a 20 minute drive of each other you should see the inside of each of their high schools they go all out on academics too🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
---Now show their average GPAs---
_mean_ , _median_ , or _mode_ ?
(Or can you even tell me what any of that means, genius?) 😛
Right. Those districts have are in very affluent areas.
Melissa built a huge stadium in anticipation of future growth. That whole region is growing like crazy.
@@qtxesco2294Same for Prosper....wait til they see Walnut Grove HS in Prosper lol
Melissa is growing rapidly in one of the fastest growing areas of the country. That's how it is in DFW. Schools that were tiny 10 years ago, have moved up to the larger classifications in a few years. Even in the southern suburbs, look at the beast of a district brewing in southern Dallas county where Duncanville and DeSoto already reside as the smaller schools grow.
When I was in high school, West Mesquite was a rival of my hometown of Terrell. I was in the marching band and thus went to games at the stadium. Even though it was before the renovation, it was still considered an event to play games there.
Did not expect to see Washington on this list
I'm originally from El Paso, Tx and all the high schools had a stadium. Most older schools had a one side concrete stadium and aluminum across the field for the marching bands and over the course of time the new schools had built aluminum stadiums and Texas doesn't mess around when it comes to football as they take it very seriously. Nowadays almost all schools have turf and I don't think any schools have real grass anymore. Crazy.
My favorite by far is Stadium Bowl in Tacoma. I hope they’re keeping that place up to code now because that’s an incredible environment and atmosphere. It seems like a fantastic place to see a game.
Ohio doesn't have districts in football. Only Divisions (7) and Regions (4 per division). Also Paul Brown Tiger Stadium hasn't been a scheduled host of the state championships since 2013. All 7 title games are now played at Tom Benson HOF Stadium (formerly Fawsett Stadium) in Canton. Tiger Stadium did host some of the title games in 2020 due to the Pandemic.
6:06 That Stadium is also in a game called: The Program College Football.
Saw video title.
Expected at least half the featured stadiums to be in Texas.
Was not disappointed- or surprised.
Plenty of other honorable mentions in other states, including J Birney Crum in Allentown PA, Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids IA, Valley Stadium in West Des Moines IA, Grand Blanc HS in Grand Blanc MI, the Reitz Bowl in Evansville IN, Dutch Clark Stadium in Pueblo CO, Watson Stadium in Hobbs NM, Johansen HS Stadium in Clovis CA, Stagg Stadium in Salem VA, Roosevelt Stadium in Union City NJ (that's the one that's literally on the roof of the school), Mitchell Field in Bluefield WV, Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport CT, the recently rebuilt Tuttle Stadium in Tulsa OK, West Monroe LA HS Stadium, Dobbins-Bennett HS in Kingsport TN, Traz Powell Stadium in Miami FL, Dorman HS near Spartanburg SC, Memorial Stadium in Everett WA and the Kiggins Bowl in Vancouver WA (tiny but classic design in an absolutely GORGEOUS setting).
You should see the multi-thousand-dollar inflatable tunnels they run through at the beginning of every half...
You know who DOESN’T have world class high school stadiums? Those hippies in Austin, tell ya what
Dang it Bobby, those Austinites are letting our state down
I felt like Soulja Boy saying HUH the entire video😂😂😂😂
Do a video about the best high school stadium in each state
Although i dont live in America, my high school had 2 football fields.
One being just a random spot in the school yard where they just plopped a couple of goal posts.
The other was my towns main field, which looked like if the Oakland Coliseum had even more of a stroke.
As an American, I'm proud that your high school follow the sport!
It's not a big _wallet_ that determines how good an athlete becomes. It's a huge _heart_ . 🏈
6 of them in the DFW area.
I attended Allen HS from 1997-2000 long before that stadium was built. Did get to be the first class to graduate from that newer HS. Although I liked the old school better.
Ahhh you didn't add that one from Katy, Texas
Katy HS was ranked 64th in Texas before destroying Longview in the '97 state final.
That Katy team produced two NFL players.
Media sleeping on Katy is a long tradition.
Including Canton always feels weird to me as a Packers fans because it allows me to accurately argue Green Bay East had the largest high school stadium ever since they shared with the Packers until 1956. Obviously that is stupid but its the same thing behind Canton.
Would be cool to see the stadiums of some of the most successful hs football teams. Like if having all the best really translates to on field performance
Had a playoff game at Mesquite Memorial my junior year of high school. Then, 20 years later, I was coaching playoff baseball at the baseball stadium adjacent to Mesquite Memorial.
San Antonio got robbed with Alamo stadium being left out.
18,500 seating 3rd largest highschool stadium in Texas
BUILT IN 1940. THE ORIGINAL outlandish highschool stadium
McKinney isn't the only stadium to host an NCAA national title, in Shenandoah they have a stadium called Woodforest Bank Stadium and it's hosted 2 D3 national title games in 2018 and 19. Woodforest is just under 10k cap according to wiki.
If you haven't already taken a look at Rock Island Public Schools Stadium in Rock Island, Illinois, you should. It is almost 100 years old and has a capacity of 15000 and is used by one high school.
I'm sure it's been updated by now, but as of 2010, Stadium High School was the only field in our district that still had the old style astro turf. So we couldn't wear regular cleats when we played there. Everyone had to wear tennis shoes.
This reminds me of when folks went by my old high school asking which college was this. It is one of the largest schools in the mitten state so while we do not have large high school stadiums in the state; the stadium is one the largest in the state.
My aunt and uncle live right down the street from the McKinney stadium. It really screwed up the property taxes and they said it took away from the arts budget, which is unfortunate because the arts are important and their band is really good. They just wanted to outdo Allen High’s stadium. If you know Texas high school football, EVERYTHING is a competition including where the game is played. Also, everybody in DFW hates Allen, they literally cheat by paying family’s with kids who are good at football to move to Allen. I was in band in high school and half of Allen’s marching band didn’t even play their instruments, they were so massive they couldn’t even march on a regular sized field.
you're not wrong about Allen (and crazy UIL rules) and your aunt and uncle are my neighbors, I am within walking distance of MISD Stadium
Just a heads up: Check out the new stadium for Buford (GA) HS stadium being built.
george washington high school in san francisco. not the biggest or most luxurious stadium but has a beautiful view of the golden gate bridge
Just want to point out that 4 of these stadiums are located within the same 5-6 mile radius in the eastern part of Collin County, Texas: Prosper, Allen, McKinney and the Ford Center. Toyota Stadium (Home of FC Dallas) is a 20k seat venue that also hosts Frisco ISD games every weekend and is in this radius.
Prosper's Stadiums so nice. I like being a Prosper Kid.
3:58 This is slightly outdated, as the OHSAA State Championship games were hosted at the hall of fame stadium in 2024, which, is quite ironic because it is the home field of canton-mckinleny, their biggest, and I mean BIGGEST rival
Folk in Texas are screaming the economy is bad but yet your building million dollars high school stadiums. Life must be good.
Also, located just a few short miles from the Berry Center is Legacy Stadium, a 73-million dollar 12,000 seat stadium located bout 100 yards from Rhodes Stadium, ANOTHER KatyISD Stadium, with just under 10,000 seats. (Yes, we have TWO right next to each other).
I saw a news feature on Allen High School. The school district didn't want to divide resources amongst several high schools, so the district just kept adding on to Allen HS. The school enrollment was 5,300 at the time of the report. No wonder everything at that school is huge.
Wonder why their athletic programs are so successful? They pull from one huge pool for one school. Seems unfair to the other schools.
I wish they invested in teaching these kids as they do in playing sports.
Children’s Health in Prosper now hosts 3 Prosper ISD High Schools and will soon add a 4th.
However, the residents reached their limit when the school board proposed a ridiculous 94 million dollar 8,000 seat overflow stadium (4000 seats less than Children’s Health). That bond was soundly defeated last year. Even Texas has its limits when it comes to football!
I grew up in Dallas...Mesquite HS and Garland HS (two suburbs of Dallas) have always been powerhouses of HS football...remember, HS football is like religion in Texas...
In my playing days I have been to 2 High School facilities that were super nice. One Facility had automatic flushing toilets and both had very nice fields. That's bad ass that HS teams have indoor stadiums.
I went to the season opener of Melissa versus Argyle in 2023 someone who’s not from Texas it was unreal seeing that this is a stadium made for high school kids to play in
It's weird looking back at the list of best high school football stadiums from like 2008. They were a lot smaller, and most, if not all, would not be on that list today.
If you do another video of this sort, check out McEachern High School in Powder Springs, GA. That whole campus, it's history, and the various sports fields spread about it are worth a look even if it doesn't make it to a video lol
A few years ago I was covering high school football for the Austin American-Statesman and got sent to a game at a stadium in Round Rock. The press box was massive and fully catered. I once accompanied a friend of mine to the press box at Ball State University in Indiana and it was pathetic by comparison.
I’m surprised legacy stadium in Katy wasn’t on the list. Built for 70.3 million with a 12,000 seating capacity, press boxes with TVs, and the area that it sits on has a naming rights deal with Academy
It's crazy how much parking each of these stadiums has... check out the MCG in melbourne australia, 100k capacity and lucky to be 500 car parks. I was at the SCG in Sydney on the weekend, 45k people and again there'd be space for maybe 1000 cars and that's it
I’ve said this before but the UFL teams in TX should play at one of the high school stadiums to give a better appearance of attendance on tv. These stadiums are just as nice as the college stadiums but smaller. They could pack the stadium with fans and make it look like their games are sold out.
my high school was in a fucking cornfield
My middle school football team field didn't even had a field to play on they played on a dirt patch across the road in an empty parking lot LOL.
And here my old high school’s field had two sets of bleacher seats, one on either side of the field
Allen High School is just nuts. The marching band has around 800 members.
You can do that with 7k students
I feel like Ralph Engelstad Arena in Thief River Falls, MN (Not the one in Grand Forks that is for the University of North Dakota) is the Minnesota HS hockey arena equivalent of Texas HS football stadiums.
I remember playing a football game in middle school where the field literally had a bump around the 30 yard line. Normally this wouldn't be a problem. But when I say bump, I mean a good 10 foot around diameter foothill was just hanging out and they painted over it. It is a miracle no one tripped and got hurt.
As someone who's lived in the greater DFW area for practically all of my college/adult life, I'd say you pretty well captured the absurdity of HS football around here. It's a religion and literally shuts down entire towns on Friday nights.
You should check out my old HS stadium in Jacksonville, TX called the Tomato Bowl. Originally built in the depression of the 1930s by the WPA, it got a big face lift in 2020 which makes for a cool before/after comparison. Growing up it was always considered a shrine of TX HS football, even if it was old and decrepit.
You need to check out legacy stadium in katy texas!!! Home of bama qb jalen miroe
I played at Mesquite, and that radio tower is awsome
The high school I went to is currently building an indoor facility like Massillon and it only had their program since 1980.
The Tacoma Stadium is the best. I live in the Midwest and driving to see game there is on my bucket list of places to go. Fancy jumbo tons don't excite me!
Going into this vid I was expecting a good majority of these to be in Texas and I was not disappointed
Texas just loves High School Football
friscoisd also plays football in toyota stadium, which they share with fc dallas. infact while every fisd school as a football field on campus, they do not play games there. wild
If it wasn’t for the fact that I went to hs in Texas, I don’t think I’d like football anywhere as much as I do. We really love it down here
Dude wiping out on the parachute was priceless.
Crowley ISD and the new Katy field should be on here. Crowley is the home field for Texas Wesleyan D3 team as well.
Living in North Dallas, these stadiums here are INSANE. I can walk to the Star its pretty awesome.
If we want to add historical, from 2012-2020, West Salem High School in Salem, OR was the only in the nation to have an all-black turf surface.
Pretty much all of these Texas football fields are within 30-45 minutes of each other, and I've played or been to most of them. Unfortunately, my high school with an absured 26 million dollar stadium with fewer students than Melissa didn't make the list.