💬 Finally got to a high school game at Cowboys practice facility

[planomateo]

Pretty sweet! That video screen is probably 70' wide.

 

[rick4bama]

How was it, hope your team won tonight!

 

[planomateo]

Neat place. The outside is crazy, mini ring of honor, various play numbers, etc.

Yup, won 43-7.

 

[UAgrad93]

WOW!!!

 

[Bamabww]

Very nice. Wonder how much it cost to play a high school game there?

 

[planomateo]

Not my photos...

Along the walkway to the stadium down this street, on each side of the street are the numbers for each of the Cowboys in the ring. Tom Landry's is the coolest...

 

[planomateo]

Very nice. Wonder how much it cost to play a high school game there?

The Frisco Independent School District gave Jerry $30M, don't recall off the top of my head how long that gives them access to the facility. They have their own locker rooms. Frisco has 3 stadiums:

• a normal stadium
• FC Dallas soccer stadium (partnership to use this as a stadium)
• Cowboys Ford Center (partnership)

They have 9 high schools, of which 8 currently have varsity football teams, plan is to have 11 high schools I believe (entire division). Scheduling 8 teams with 3 stadiums, they use away games along with Thursday games...AD has fun with the scheduling I'm sure.

 

[Bamabww]

Wow! I knew high school football was big in Texas but didn't think about it being that big.

 

[planomateo]

We're finally getting a new stadium, we're stuck in a tiny stadium at the moment. I'm not happy with the cost of the new stadium $48M, but we certainly need a new stadium. We're playing at an old 2A stadium and we're technically a 6A school (enrollment) but playing 5A. Our high school has an enrollment of 2900+, 2nd high school to be built soon.