“I understand HS football in Texas is huge but still I am shaking my head.”
Is there a rattling noise? What’s wrong with the people in an area spending money on football, if it’s theirs?
This stadium will bring in money for the school district.
In Texas, high school football is king!
You make an excellent point.
It's not unlike the taxpayers in Erie County, NY [Buffalo] who, not only built Rich Stadium, but who continue to approve the spending of hundreds of millions more each decade or so to improve it. Democracy rules; but that doesn't mean it's not stupid.
Nothing. But I bet you wouldn’t have to dig too far to find out that Allen is receiving Federal money for other stuff.
“What’s wrong with the people in an area spending money on football, if it’s theirs?”
Nothing at all. If anything they provide a public service - folks who don’t want their local tax dollars flushed down the toilet will stay far away.
The money belongs to the taxpayers, the school district spent it, it doesn’t belong to government