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[QUOTE="cmr27, post: 328664, member: 215"]
This is wrong not only because it's an inelegant way to spend $60m but also because it ignores everything high school football is supposed to be about. I like high school football to be grassroots. I want a chain-linked fence around the field. I want a track around the field. I want moms and dads standing around a grill near the end zone selling hot dogs and hamburgers. I want to see some guy and some girl sneaking away to go under the bleachers. I want to see some kids playing near the field, and I want to wonder whether they'll wander onto the field at the wrong moment and interfere with a play. 
 
The whole charm of seeing a star high school football player is framed and fueled by rinky-dink stadiums. The excitement lies in the possibility that this fellow, who's running wild in little more than a pasture, will be in Baton Rouge 12 months later showcasing these skills before 100,000 fanatics. And there's the notion that perhaps five years down the road, he will be at Jerry World or The Frozen Tundra.
 
That stadium was built by adults who imagine themselves as Jerry Jones. It's a monument to their own vanity. It actually has nothing to do with the kids at all.
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