TDs, taxpayers: Texas鈥� 5 most expensive HS football stadiums
No. 3 鈥� McKinney ISD Stadium聽
Opened: 2018
Location: McKinney, Texas
The majority of the funds for the McKinney Stadium came from property taxes. In 2016, about 62% of McKinney voters approved the. The package included funds to build the new McKinney ISD Stadium that would replace the 54-year-old, 7,000-seat Ron Poe Stadium that was the district鈥檚 primary venue.聽聽
鈥淭here is a little bit of an arms race,鈥� said Rodney Webb, president of the Texas High School Football Coaches Association 鈥淪omebody has something, the next district over feels like they鈥檝e got to have as much or better.鈥澛�
McKinney ISD鈥檚 facility is about six miles from Allen鈥檚 $60 million stadium.
鈥淚f you could have seen the looks on those kids’ faces as they ran out for the very first time 鈥� that is why we built this facility,鈥� said Rick McDaniel, McKinney ISD superintendent 鈥淲e鈥檙e not in competition with some other district around us. We鈥檙e simply here to provide first-class facilities.鈥澛犅�
McKinney ISD Stadium is the following football programs:
Boyd (McKinney): in 2022
McKinney: in 2022
McKinney North (McKinney): in 2022
McKinney ISD Stadium. Rockwall vs Duncanville on . Only Texas does HS football quite like this.
— Chase Snyder (@ChasingSnyder)
