2-year-old, $60 million Texas HS football stadium falling apart

Looks like Allen is gearing up for the 2016 Olympics

 

If I were a taxpayer in that school district, I'd be plenty pissed at the builders.

 

Should only cost them $300 million to build an air-conditioned dome to replace it.

 

For the love of Christ please tell me this was built with private money.

 

Frisco is already building one.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000229213/article/frisco-council-oks-115m-dallas-cowboys-practice-facility

The Cowboys' indoor practice facility will double as a high school football stadium.

Of course Frisco has somewhere in the neighborhood of eight high schools and only one football stadium that the school district actually owns.

 

Nah, they'll move to L.A. and share a stadium with the Jags.

 

If need be, Allen will simply go back to its old stadium that was too small even when it was a middling 5A 15 years ago, and hike ticket prices to $60.

 

Built with bonds approved by local taxpayers in a referendum.

 

Pogue Construction is currently building Allen’s $32.5 million service center, which is also being examined. The construction firm has many schools and other public projects in the works across Texas. But Pogue said this is an isolated case.

What's the deal with the construction firm? Are they getting jobs based on political connections, and not the quality of their work?

 

Anyone who goes to Texas Motor Speedway should turn right as they leave and check out the football complex down the road a couple miles.

My guess on this is subgrade concrete during the pour, lack of rebar, or they did not do a proper soil compaction study when selecting the site. Each one of these would have a different person or group to blame.

Before everyone goes nuts about the cost, the price tag for a new high school can be over $200 million, and, yes, this is way too much money for a field.

And before we start wringing our hands on the money spent, bond money is not placed into the center of a field and burned, that money is now in the pockets of people who built the stadium, which is not a terrible thing. There were many tradesmen who were able to work thanks to this project. And there is also profit going back to the banks and into the architect and engineering firms who designed this complex. Yes, this was way too much money to a field, but there are also a lot of people who were helped by this money, which is more than you can say if it was in a offshore account collecting interest.