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Red or Blue turf for a High School is not as bad as for a college, as very few of the HS games are televised.

Schlitterbahn!!!!

Only in Texas are high school football fields superior to most colleges and to the education buildings.

I don't think there is a state that can compare to Texas High School football. Maybe in Athletes, Florida, California and Ohio, but no where for the total package.

We play on grass in Florida...thankfully.

Thankfully...most of Texas' HS stadiums look like this one from where my wife's kin played football.

http://www.texasbob.com/stadium/stadium.php?id=98

A cool $1 million.

This is Canton-McKinley high schools Fawcett Stadium in Canton. The capacity is 22,357



This is Massilon high school's Paul Brown field. Capacity is around 18,000.



This is the training facility at Massilon high



This is the inside.



Ohio has some crazy high school stadiums, but these are two of the most "over the top" in the state.

I know I have posted this before...but here is my home town's high school football stadium, and indoor practice facility (they boast it's larger than the Green Bay Packer's indoor practice facility). This is in Bentonville, Arkansas (of course the home of Wal-Mart). Bentonville just won the Arkansas 7A state championship this year (2nd in 3 years and 3rd in the past 10 years).



And Donovan...the educational buildings are large, new, state of the art, lots of computers, great teachers, and rank among the nations best every year....and the performing art center on campus is as good as they come. Does that mean they should spend that much on football...no. But they don't hold back on spending in any area. The community does have a little bit of money to throw around I guess.

Here are a couple more

Warren Harding high




Steubenville


Colerain



Jackson high school (small southern Ohio school)



And I couldn't find a good picture, but this is the outside of Portsmouth Spartan Stadium. It was a pro stadium in the early history of the NFL and home to Portsmouth high school

Arkansas has some stadiums that seat in the 15,000 range. I am having trouble finding pictures of any of these stadiums. I will keep looking.

Little Rock Catholic (I believe that's the high school) plays all their home games at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Ark (Arkansas Razorbacks 2nd stadium)....it seats over 50,000. Not sure how many people they get in the stadium on Friday nights for high school football.

The average football stadium in Ohio holds 5000 people. The biggest high school stadium is Fawcett at 22,000 capacity, but they have pushed 30,000 in Massilon's stadium. Those are high school only stadiums, but there are several high schools in Ohio that share stadiums with college teams. Those will hold 20-30,000.

GO BLUE!, GO UNICORNS! The stadium at New Braunfels High School isn't as flashy as Canyon High School's "Cougar Stadium", but it is still home! Also the stadium didn't look this nice when I played there '79-'83.

The celebrated Muck Bowl between tiny Pahokee and Glades Central is held in a fairly humble stadium (although Pahokee just got a new facility, it isn't grand..see pic).

But the games played there are legendary...Glades Central alums currently in the NFL, Anquan Boldin (Cardinals), Fred Taylor (Jags), Santonio Holmes (Pittsburgh), Ray McDonald (49ers) sometimes return.

http://www.ihigh.com/greatamericanrival ... 84164.html

This is high school football the way I remember it from 45 years ago.