What about the small/poorer programs?

[trap43xx]

We hear alot about those football programs that seem to have money to burn - turf, covered practice fields, jumbo trons etc. I was wondering what some of our Texas small/poor schools are doing to provide Texas student/players with equipment, facilites and coaching? Anyone out there with a story to tell about your small/poor program? Are you playing on turf? Do you have enough coaching? Is you equipment up to standard?

[okt0ber]

We hear alot about those football programs that seem to have money to burn - turf, covered practice fields, jumbo trons etc. I was wondering what some of our Texas small/poor schools are doing to provide Texas student/players with equipment, facilites and coaching? Anyone out there with a story to tell about your small/poor program? Are you playing on turf? Do you have enough coaching? Is you equipment up to standard?

Well this is a 5A website so most 5A schools have better facilities.

[sldragondad]

We hear alot about those football programs that seem to have money to burn - turf, covered practice fields, jumbo trons etc. I was wondering what some of our Texas small/poor schools are doing to provide Texas student/players with equipment, facilites and coaching? Anyone out there with a story to tell about your small/poor program? Are you playing on turf? Do you have enough coaching? Is you equipment up to standard?



Pack up. Move to South Texas and scarf up all that Robin Hood Money.

Case in point: San Benito. Middle of the road town between Harlingen and Brownsville. No big employer, no huge industry. Not enough school tax revenue to built a parking lot. Yet this town with Robin Hood money built a big Statium (12000) with a spectrun scoreboard. Check it out :
http://www.spectrumscoreboards.com/about_us/recent_installs/sanbenito.html

[drgnbkr]

Pack up. Move to South Texas and scarf up all that Robin Hood Money.

Case in point: San Benito. Middle of the road town between Harlingen and Brownsville. No big employer, no huge industry. Not enough school tax revenue to built a parking lot. Yet this town with Robin Hood money built a big Statium (12000) with a spectrun scoreboard. Check it out :
http://www.spectrumscoreboards.com/about_us/recent_installs/sanbenito.html

If they don't spend it..they lose it...It's a much better board than ours...:rolleyes:

[Jrock]

Pack up. Move to South Texas and scarf up all that Robin Hood Money.

From what I understand it's mostly sponsors picking up the tab for the scoreboard.

[BDB]

MY TURN! MY CITY! WOOOO!

ok so we got a grant from the state, and we upped taxes for the new stadium. the scoreboard is selling ad spaces to help with the cost.

its sad, but its prett much what we have. we have this and a HUGE ag center. EVERYONE is at the game, tries to go to the game, or helps out in some way. you either wear purple on friday, or you're not showing any city pride.

and the stadium is PHEMOMINAL!

also raymondville (north of harlingen) passed on fixing the roofing of their school even though it leaks because they knew that the stadium would bring in revenue for the school district and help out with different expenditures.

[wargograw]

haha, phemomimal

[BDB]

haha, phemomimal

hmmmmm

[LoneRocket]

Pack up. Move to South Texas and scarf up all that Robin Hood Money.

Case in point: San Benito. Middle of the road town between Harlingen and Brownsville. No big employer, no huge industry. Not enough school tax revenue to built a parking lot. Yet this town with Robin Hood money built a big Statium (12000) with a spectrun scoreboard. Check it out :
http://www.spectrumscoreboards.com/about_us/recent_installs/sanbenito.html

There are a lot of school districts all over Texas that are getting Robin hood money including some you would never guess. Last I checked you can not use chapter 41 funds to build facilities.

[DrEdward]

There are a lot of school districts all over Texas that are getting Robin hood money including some you would never guess. Last I checked you can not use chapter 41 funds to build facilities.

But $$$ are fungible assets. Even if one is not suppose to use Robin Hood dollars to build facilities, their receipt frees up other dollars to do so, if the district chooses. You are right, however, in that there are districts which do receive chapter 41 funds that are quite surprising (and infuriating to those districts which are required to pay.)

[picperp]

We hear alot about those football programs that seem to have money to burn - turf, covered practice fields, jumbo trons etc. I was wondering what some of our Texas small/poor schools are doing to provide Texas student/players with equipment, facilites and coaching? Anyone out there with a story to tell about your small/poor program? Are you playing on turf? Do you have enough coaching? Is you equipment up to standard?

Notice less than a dozen responses, and half rag on the poor districts for being poor. Very telling.
I think Trapp would like to hear how programs like Carter (Dallas ISD), Longview, Copp Cove (4A for now) deal with being smaller schools with less tax base in 5A.
And no one supports their schools better than the Valley, considering the circumstances. Each year, they drive north to San Antonio or Corpus by the 1000s knowing they'll get beat. But they always outnumber fans from SA or Austin. No better fans in the state.

[78 Spartan]

Pack up. Move to South Texas and scarf up all that Robin Hood Money.

Case in point: San Benito. Middle of the road town between Harlingen and Brownsville. No big employer, no huge industry. Not enough school tax revenue to built a parking lot. Yet this town with Robin Hood money built a big Statium (12000) with a spectrun scoreboard. Check it out :
http://www.spectrumscoreboards.com/about_us/recent_installs/sanbenito.html

I am willing to stomach the whole Robin Hood concept only so long as the money being re-allocated from "rich" districts to "poor" districts is really being used to buy textbooks and to pay teachers. When it starts to be used to build football stadiums, that's when I think the redistributionist philosophy has gone too far. Just my $0.02.

[78 Spartan]

There are a lot of school districts all over Texas that are getting Robin hood money including some you would never guess. Last I checked you can not use chapter 41 funds to build facilities.

Maybe so, but of course money is fungible.

[Firebird]

But $$$ are fungible assets. Even if one is not suppose to use Robin Hood dollars to build facilities, their receipt frees up other dollars to do so, if the district chooses. You are right, however, in that there are districts which do receive chapter 41 funds that are quite surprising (and infuriating to those districts which are required to pay.)


We should just stop playing football. We're too poor, we don't deserve it.

[Firebird]

There are a lot of school districts all over Texas that are getting Robin hood money including some you would never guess. Last I checked you can not use chapter 41 funds to build facilities.

There's also a lot of school districts that pay Robin Hood that you would never guess.

Port Isabel... any number of dirt poor West Texas districts that happen to be sitting on a lake of oil.

[DrEdward]

We should just stop playing football. We're too poor, we don't deserve it.

You said that, I didn't. What part are you arguing about? The observation that a district like Allen has received Robin Hood money. As I have said on here before, Robin Hood makes some sense, but the total and the distribution of those funds do not necessarily do so.