Best Football Facilities

[1st & 15]

Shame on me, but I have not been to Garden City. Looks beautiful on Google maps.
Robert Lee is great and add to Homelanders 5 for me.
Highland, grass, is great.
Newcastle, grass and still under construction. Field and stands are great.
Iredell, grass, great.
Sterling City was on bucket list and now should be great for 11-man.
I have enjoyed all of them

Sterling City should be going back to 6 man after this year.

 

[CVguy]

Sterling City should be going back to 6 man after this year.

Only if they lost a bunch of kids. Last year's TEA student enrollment report shows they had 112 from 8th through 11th grade.

 

[1st & 15]

Only if they lost a bunch of kids. Last year's TEA student enrollment report shows they had 112 from 8th through 11th grade.

They did.

 

[rbw]

I looked at several of these on the map and it appears that the new ones used the same builder, lol. The fields look the same, just different colors, names, and mascots.Tthe homestands and press boxes look the same. The differences are whether or not they have the track going around the football field, making it oval, or no track, making it rectangular. Also, the size of the visitor's side stands, the style of scoreboard, and probably a bigee, the placement and style of the concession and restrooms. The surrounding area makes a difference too, with those that have a scenic background being more aesthetically pleasing.

I know this is a late comment, but Bruni fits this template you describe. It's very nice and contemporary, but not particularly unique. The vista from the visitor side (toward the west), out over the scrub, can be really pretty at dusk, though. The damp breeze from the Gulf reaches town around 7 or 8. Benavides in contrast has a really solid, over-built (hurricane-proof?) concrete main bleacher from the '50s or late '40s, I would guess. It's not from the New Deal; no aggregate in the concrete. Seems to me like it was a product of the Parr era (bo$$-rule largesse).

Sanderson has a nice setting--above everything in the northwest corner of town, with the field sunken into a bowl, so you don't really get a glimpse of the field till you're at the gate, looking down into it from the top of the stands.

I really enjoyed going to a game once in Veribest. Some fencing is all that separates the dairy cows from the fans and players along part of one side of the field. Near the snack bar, the animals looked on with attentive curiosity at all the snacking and socializing. (I don't remember seeing them brandishing any "Eat Mor Chikn" signs though.) You drive through a dairy farm to reach the field IIRC (but this was over ten years ago).

 

[Pdevitt13]

They did.

What was the cause of the loss of students?