Turf Fields in SE Texas??

[KFDM COOP]

Great article by Jdawg. It's amazing that no School in SE Texas has Turf. I can see BH getting it eventaully with the growth there. There has been talk of Silsbee getting it. In Beaumont is was brought up one time at a School Board meeting about building a new Stadium at Ford Park with Turf for all the Beaumont schools to play on but that fell through with the Money problems Jefferson County has. WOS is pushing for it but doubt it will happen either.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

How much does that stuff cost?

[KFDM COOP]

Oh about 500,000..Schools can make monthly or yearly payments though..If you get a chance read Jdawgs article on the webpage..Pretty good one.

[Cat22]

That was a good article. Good Job jdawg!

[SilsbeeD]

would be very cool if silsbee could get turf

[jdawg03]

That was a good article. Good Job jdawg!

Gracias

[SilsbeeD]

Teams also like to play in fields with jumbo-trons so they can watch them-selves. I know Lufkin has turf and a jumbo-tron. They had to make a bunch of money this season because they a lot of people playing their through out the play offs.

[pngfan93]

PNG considered turf as part of a new stadium in a bond package. The stadium was later removed from the package and was substituted with minor stadium repairs to get another decade out of the stadium.

The bond has been temporarily delayed to see what the legislature is going to do about school finance.

I observed probably 90% of those bond meetings. I'd like to see the stadium package put back in the bond.

[Jackthehammer]

Looking back at this topic its amazing at the differences now than in 2006

[OldSkool97]

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Looking back at this topic its amazing at the differences now than in 2006
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5 years makes a huge diference! How many have field turf now? I can think of three off the top of my head, but I know there is more..

[WOSgrad]

It looks like Nederland and WO-S will be attempting bond issue elections again sometime this year to go in that direction.

[Guest ECBucFan]

2A Hardin has had turf for years. I hear their school buildings still have blue hurricane tarps on them, but fancy turf covers their "house of pain" (or whatever they call it) field. 

[mat]

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It looks like Nederland and WO-S will be attempting bond issue elections again sometime this year to go in that direction.
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I don't think either will pursue turf in their upcoming bonds