New $70 Million High School Football Stadium Dedicated In Katy

[TexasTowelie]

High school football is king in Texas, and the latest proof is the state’s newest, most expensive stadium.

This week, the Katy Independent School District dedicated its new Legacy Stadium, a new mega-facility that ranks as the most expensive high school football stadium in the country.

With a price tag of just over $70 million, it seats 12,000 people and has a two-story field house. The video replay board cost $2 million.

Some Katy residents are thrilled, like Chris Harris.

“Katy is all about our school, our community, and this is going to serve Katy. It’s going to serve this area of Texas for my entire lifetime and I couldn’t be more prouder of it,” he told ABC Thirteen.

Read more: http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2017/08/18/231548/new-70-million-high-school-football-stadium-dedicated-in-katy/

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1. Yeah, that's a great way to spend $70M. Meanwhile, students in Texas are learning that

the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, creationism is a viable scientific concept & more kids will think we were allied with Germany against Russia in WWII.

[OnDoutside]

2. 70m for 12,000 capacity ??? Sounds like gold plated seats !

In my city, the GAA built a 45,000 capacity for 100m.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Part of the money is for amenities

such as multi-million scoreboards, parking, new athletic locker rooms, trophy rooms, and video rooms. The field is artificial turf.

Katy has grown so that it has seven high schools in the districts. It was somewhat manageable with six schools even though they had to schedule games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. With the addition of a seventh school and with all seven schools in the same district that complicated the logistics to the point that they were having to schedule two games on Saturday. Playing football during the afternoon in September and even October can be brutal when the temperature is pushing into the upper 90s, especially since Katy has the same humidity problems as Houston.

[greymattermom]

4. CTE brain damage

for a lot of young Texan males.