Inside Texas’ FREEDOM FIELD at the $45,000,000 Heritage Complex | Royal Key

[@SportsDissected]

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[@bradforward850]

45 MIL? Y'all got robbed. Did y'all get the money from welfare too?

[@JohnMurphy-wf2is]

Next level. Showcasing High School now. SD knows no bounds. Great video.

[@jonathancilla3954]

I live in Arkansas and I am a high school football and basketball official. I love high school football Friday nights here in Arkansas. BUT- Texas high school football is on a whole other level. I've been blessed to see some games throughout Texas and it's something special. It's ok to hate Texas. But you MUST respect them.

[@Cnote100]

Nice facility. If you are doing high school football stadiums in Texas come north of DFW where Allen, McKinney and Prosper ISD's all have outstanding stadiums.

[@jackdaddyslim3895]

I played 4A vasity Football In The DFW metroplex For 3 years And Can remember how pumped up everyone would be right before the early rounds of the playoffs Because we knew We would be Playing in Nice Big stadiums Like This (& thats Not even including the games we played at Texas stadium & AT&T Stadium) But Now A days Kids Get to play Every home Game In A Nice Huge Stadium.. it's Gotta be SO awesome

[@Josh-mg7rm]

I grew up playing my high school games at Wildcat Stadium in Temple, I thought I was playing in a D1 FCS stadium tbh.

[@americusdeville865]

I prefer natural grass . . . but what a facility. Texas is looking superior to many of the other states that are fiscally insolvent. Love the greenery on the aerial views. Texas is doing it right. Host was a first class gentlemen.

[@soyuckyy4960]

yea but you gotta understand how much its used...it would be completely Impractical to put grass in it. Even though everybody would rather it.

[@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw]

Bears fan would disagree

[@americusdeville865]

@@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw California and Illinois are shit holes.

[@bstives58]

yea...but they have no power in the winter...clown take

[@brandonpreston9409]

I said the same thing I like real grass 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@whatweather]

I could NOT imagine marching on a field like that, it would rival the small fields I marched in on in college much less high school

[@Zay4Life]

It’s bigger than most DII schools and even some FCS school!!!

[@trvrgrz]

imagine investing that in the actual education system.

[@nategz9875]

I worked in the district and they built this stadium the same year Covid hit. It was apparent that they invested in the wrong thing. Other districts had the ability to go one to one with computers during distant learning except Alvin.

[@jamesfields2916]

​@@nategz9875They just said stadium built in 2018, two years before Covid stupidity.

[@davidhicks1379]

Maybe Uvalde school district could use some?

[@ryanissa3353]

I live in the houston area and marched on that field ... the stadium is amazing too

[@brodydon3]

Man these Texas turf fields gotta burn cleats in day games, that’s why I love natural grass it’s cool to the touch

[@jamaicanjuice8684]

High schools play at night unless it's playoffs which means cooler weather. Practice is brutal though, speaking from experience.

[@carlosbardales4179]

I am going on a different direction here... I find this kind of money waste insulting to the hard working people of Texas. Spending all of this money on football fields when many of our State schools are physically and literally falling apart is a disgrace. I understand each one of these districts are independent and they survive mostly by the tax money from their homeowners in each district.. but having enough money to waste on these fields and complexes while other districts are barely keeping their lights on and infrastructure functional, well, it is a real shame. It is a public system and as such ALL of the public schools should have the bare minimum to have a decent and comfortable environment for the children to learn. Teacher salaries are very low here in Texas and often times teachers have to purchase teaching material out of their own pocket for their classes... that is unacceptable, I don't care if your district is poor or not.. that should NOT happen. Anyway, this is just another example of how our society's priority are all upside down. I know I will get attacked by my point of view and I respect your opinion regardless.

[@jeffclark7888]

There is a lot of truth to what you’re saying.

[@domo5353]

Texas has one of the highest graduation rates as of recent and school districts don’t just build these stadiums when they want too. It’s voted by the school board & the people living in the school district. The community wanted this stadium. And he said in the video that Alvin just opened up a brand new school so their definitely putting money in other places other than their athletic programs

[@tenntitan3554]

@@domo5353 the high school I went to did the same. Had a brand new stadium, but also came with a new high school building as well as renovations for the other 3 schools in the district. The hs got a bigger building, the middle school moved into the much bigger old high school after renovations, and the elementary schools split by grades to have more space.

[@blakelikestobench]

It’s voted on, but also. Texas HS football brings in a lot of money. And it’s not just for 1 school. It’s usually the entire district. (Unless your Allen HS. Where you are the district). I played at The Berry Center along with 14 other highschools in the district.

[@drums3269]

This is why school districts with money have the advantage over poorer communities and school districts. They have state of the art facilities and weight rooms. They also attract the best coaches.

[@Bill_N_ATX]

Hell, they pay players. I remember the kid whose Dad got a new job and they moved to our town in the summer between his freshman and sophomore season. Now, was it a direct payment? No, but you can’t blame the family for taking it. And he moved to a five A team where he was guaranteed to be seen by the college scouts. Too bad he was a poor student but he still got a scholarship to SEC school.

[@hartiwanger9176]

Seeing how badly educated this current student is, maybe they should spend more on education and get the best teachers

[@jamaicanjuice8684]

The Robin Hood plan was a media nickname given to legislation enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 to provide court-mandated equitable school financing for all school districts in the state, in response to the Texas Supreme Court's ruling in Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby

[@ITrendzI]

There are new technologies where you can incorporate a hybrid solution. It’s turf mixed natural grass. Lots of soccer fields use it as a way to keep cost down, have natural grass, but also be able to maintain the field. I don’t get why American football fields haven’t incorporated this yet

[@Dld1985]

Good for Alvin. What a incredible facility for high school football.

[@RoyG95]

Look at Legacy Stadium in Katy ISD.

[@darrylnelson05]

Wichita Falls has some catching up to do.

[@tiffanyfurrow9400]

do marshall university football

[@7TwentyGaming]

Aye! I live like 10 mins away from Freedom Field! Go Manvel, Go Shadow Creek, Go Iowa Colony, and of course, Go Alvin!

[@dandychiggins6802]

Great story.....

[@AlexNH56]

If only PA would spend mad money on gyms for highschool wrestling. We’d look like Olympic wrestlers ourselves

[@noahvanduyne8188]

Go to the new UF facility

[@billionaireberto]

CREEEK 🦈🦈

[@kellenmcfarland22]

pleaseeee go to melissa isd (melissa tx) next year, we have a college level indoor complex and next year well have a great field

[@maxrodriguez5833]

Come to Artesia, NM!

[@braecolton379]

Can you please do Oregon State Football??

[@davidwadsworth8982]

In the near future, the NAIA, D-3 ,D-2 National Championships wil be played there. Maybe the JUCO as well.

[@ryansunderman8764]

Except they’re played at the even nicer high school stadiums rn?

[@BraznTV]

Do the Cincinnati Reds

[@Vincent-im9kg]

Great 🏟️. I'm a Graduate of Alvin College & played 🏀. It would be Great for The PHINS🐬to have a 🏈Team.

[@dannydevito5729]

What is he saying? Cork field?

[@b.jerelljones7312]

Wow, all of that money for a high school football field. Isn’t that excessive? 🤷🏿

[@domo5353]

High School Football is religion in Texas

[@HL-cl7id]

Nice facility! just to get whip by a California team lmao

[@CraftyWheel87]

Nicer than SMU stadium

[@evansjohnc]

I'm sorry. It does not cost $100,000 a year to maintain a grass field.

[@lilcourtny08]

Yes it does, someone has to maintain the field

[@user-rc6me8tg6j]

Coach said over $100,000 for field maintenance, that is got to be a made up sales pitch lie.

[@calebpepper3834]

Texas best high school football.

[@hartiwanger9176]

but what of the education?

[@calebpepper3834]

@@hartiwanger9176 When I was in high school out there it was miles ahead of the other highschools I attended.

[@petodigiorgio51]

mention the 10 to 15 deg temp hike turf puts off or the zero oxygen level the knee and feet issues .. I have a sports turf grass certification from U Of Georgia with being professional groundskeeper for yrs so yeah I jaded a bit with jobs in my field disappearing

[@rudiratte1]

Ah so that's why public education is underfunded.

[@yoo909]

this district has taken in nearly $1 billion over the last decade, and this is what they are spending the money on. $45 million could fund every program in the district for multiple years. As someone who went to Alvin ISD schools k-12, i can say that thee were many areas lacking the needed funds. The football team has not even made the playoffs since 2006, when i was in the 3rd grade. I am a college graduate now. There is no need to spend this much on a program that has been so unsuccessful. It blows my mind.

[@Johntotorototortot]

You should check out Tomball ISD Stadium way nicer than this trust me

[@mattmatt9426]

School buildings and the education suck, but hey, we have a $45m stadium. Hope the taxpayers like paying for that.

[@lynyrdskynyrd9742]

Your videos highlight the reality for most families... I mean the stupid outrageous cost of the damn university system. Student debt is at a trillion they say and you have videos where useless things like sports get untold millions? I went to JMU... as did my daughter... they charged students a 2300 activity fee which went to fund the football team. Yeah... some of these schools have millions in alumni donations... but those cannot possible cover this level of spending.. The students 99 percent who don't play sports or get scholarships and their parents get to fund this crap.

[@Rockpet]

could you do ohio state or duke plz

[@Travisharger]

If we assume that at least half of the field was built with donations and that the school has a population of about 2000 students, that would still mean that over the course of 20 years that about $500 is being taken away from the education of each student for each of those years. Let's hope for the sake of the students that much more than half of this stadium was funded with donations instead of public investment. These independent school districts in TX worry me a bit, because they are being forced to compete with other schools and sadly that seems to mean that there is a huge incentive to spend loads of dollars on campuses/spots/amenities instead of education quality - similar to our out of control college education system.

[@jackh8157]

Very true, but I’m guessing they have oil donors (Texas) with some extremely deep pockets. If former players’ and oil execs’ kids are going there, it’s safe to assume that the education is pretty good too. However, this probably can’t be said about every TX high school

[@reauxnbears]

Oh shut up

[@jamaicanjuice8684]

@@jackh8157 you need to educate yourself as is. That stadium serves 4 high schools with a combined pop. much higher than 2000. Texas has a law for things like that. The Robin Hood plan was a media nickname given to legislation enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 to provide court-mandated equitable school financing for all school districts in the state, in response to the Texas Supreme Court's ruling in Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby. Education Travis...

[@jackh8157]

@@jamaicanjuice8684 thanks for letting me know, and I appreciate your insight, though I’ve spent time in Texas and it’s very clear that not nearly every school has the same funding. Now that you say that four schools use the stadium, it is safe to assume they all have very good funding. Use of a stadium isn’t cheap, no matter if there is a referendum for local schools or not. Although the law may say that it’s all good, the reality is very likely different. Were you just copy and pasting what you were looking up, or did you mean to put the ellipses at the end and cut your sentence off? Either way, what you’re referring to has little grounds in what my original opinion was.

[@jackh8157]

@@jamaicanjuice8684 tbh it sounds like some highland park explanation on why the rich schools get to be rich, and that is irritating

[@mdpo6419]

When you going to go the a HBCU

[@6Glitch]

I like how his description of high school football in Texas not unique in any way.

[@Slide164]

We can make the score board blah blah. We just can’t educate our kids!

[@bxrob88]

Ughh didn’t they do a study on these type of fields years ago when a bunch of high school kids www getting cancer caused by the tire shreds? I could be wrong but I recall watching national nightly news stories on it several years ago.

[@traveltrucker561]

Uh no lol if that’s the case u don’t need to have a car lol

[@HampETX903]

All these 6a stadiums look the same

[@AAa-cf1oe]

❤

[@christianred9755]

I go there WTFF

[@nonotreally1]

Waste of money. Should have spent it on teachers, employees and security.

[@LucasAlaniz598]

I go there

[@Birdlab]

Great way to bankrupt a school district! Cheers.

[@yoo909]

Sadly this school district is taking in so many bonds from the state and just passing the buck to the property holders in the area. Thier property taxes are going to rise dramaticlly over the next 10-20 years when those need to be payed back. There was almost $1 billion taken in by AISD over the last 10 years, and that mony is going to need to be repayed one day.

[@jamaicanjuice8684]

@@yoo909 The Robin Hood plan was a media nickname given to legislation enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 to provide court-mandated equitable school financing for all school districts in the state, in response to the Texas Supreme Court's ruling in Edgewood Independent School District v. Kirby. Meaning they can easily allocate funds to repay that debt over time. If not, that's what taxes are for, literally. They won't increase as much as you think because there's a LOT of people in that area.

[@nwproductions5763]

Texas may have the best high school stadiums but definitely don’t bring out the best athletes like Florida does 👌

[@bobabola3399]

Ny had the best athletes

[@555125kevin]

@@bobabola3399 NY🤣😂

[@DOODIE5000]

Don’t forget Louisiana lol at New York tho

[@dailynnsp.o.v]

Lol false two words Patrick Mahomes.

[@nwproductions5763]

@@dailynnsp.o.v Florida has more than 2 words

[@bretthowey6389]

Should of got that real grass

[@nosir1440]

Idk man. I feel Texas should start investing in education instead of football fields. Texas has one of the worst education systems, along with many other problems

[@domo5353]

Texas has one of the highest graduation rates. You should do a little more research

[@nosir1440]

@@domo5353 look at their curriculums and the way their education system works. They’re graduating, but are they learning?

[@clintmoses957]

More PAC12

[@csbarbourv]

$45 million for that?

[@Fac3bon3s]

Freedom Field... my god that word is over used within American culture.

[@nixonhoover2]

muh freedom

[@rowdy9379]

$450 million, that's stupid, did the Taxpayers have a say ?

[@hartiwanger9176]

45 million but still is too much

[@kevinr5187]

It's NICE.....REALLY NICE! BUT, Not only the initial construction cost............ what do you think it cost per month to maintain this facility? $10's of thousands of dollars a month, I am sure. I was born, raised and live in Texas and we lost our way at some point. Barbra Jordan called High School football Texas's sacred cow and she was right. I love football, but this is too much and out of control for a bunch of high school kids just to play a game that used to be played in cow pastures. Society needs to wake up. This money could be spent on so many other great needs, OR better yet let the tax payers keep some of "THEIR" money and spend it the way they what too. One of these day's society is going to wakeup and realize on pay day they are just handing their WHOLE paycheck over to the government. For these reasons.................I'M OUT!

[@yoo909]

Sadly this school district is taking in so many bonds from the state and just passing the buck to the property holders in the area. Thier property taxes are going to rise dramaticlly over the next 10-20 years when those need to be payed back. There was almost $1 billion taken in by AISD over the last 10 years, and that mony is going to need to be repayed one day. They areall approved in elections, so i guess they are deciding to spend their money that way since the bond proposals are pretty detailed in what the money will be for. this district has taken in nearly $1 billion over the last decade, and this is what they are spending the money on. $45 million could fund every program in the district for multiple years. As someone who went to Alvin ISD schools k-12, i can say that thee were many areas lacking the needed funds. The football team has not even made the playoffs since 2006, when i was in the 3rd grade. I am a college graduate now. There is no need to spend this much on a program that has been so unsuccessful. It blows my mind.

[@kevinr5187]

@@yoo909 my home town is 17k near Austin, several years ago the district built a new high school then a couple of years ago they pushed a new football stadium by saying it was because our pressbox was not Ada accessible. Voters passed and they built the stadium and guess what? The new pressbox is not Ada accessible.

[@tjthastar]

First

[@Freshy_Jones]

And still second to Florida lmao

[@davidhicks1379]

Waste of money !

[@dandychiggins6802]

What a waste of money.

[@toddjohnson779]

Save some ACLs and go natural

[@hawlikd]

It is still a fake field. Not real grass, that is much better for the legs and body!

[@ArneAsada69]

Too bad football at the high school level will be phased out in 20years. The risks of concussions is too high for so little reward. Texas will probably be one of the lasts hold out states to get rid of contact football.

[@tylermcleod6470]

POV: Your a 43 year old Karen Soccer Mom.

[@oltch.]

BOOOOO TURF SUCKSSSS PLAYERS HATE IT AND ITS DANGEROUS SHAME ON TEXAS

[@Agedwell33]

Eeewww not worth 45million. uumm Cy-Fair & Allen ISD stadiums are definitely better, even Katy. If money laundering through friends contractor was a thing.

[@tranquilityhub9523]

Very Nice Stadium!!! Maybe some team in Texas will won't to get beat by A Cali Ball Team on that same Field!!! Cali Ball is the Best Ball💪💪💪🏈🏈🏈!!!

[@jimdeford9818]

Dream on

[@kdmigloo]

Easy to waste taxpayer money.

[@kingl6089]

Texas do all that just to lose to every Florida team