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Do to the rediculous amount of money West Orange school district is charging, we will be playing our next home game in Lake Charles. We are working with the LCM school district to play our home games there starting in two weeks. The WOCCISD were charging us $2100 per game! Yes thats correct. Then they turned the water off to our fieldhouse last home game and would not refund the $800 they charge us for facility use. This just goes to show just how the West Orange school district is. They could care less about the community and the athletics in the area in a whole. We could probably rent Reliant stadium for how much they were charging us. We were just trying to give the community of Orange something positive to do on a Saturday night and this is what we get. We didnt want to leave the area, but we will do what we have to to keep playing. We have a great team. If anyone may see a WOCCISD trustee, thank them for being one of the worst run government entities in the world. Just ask the WOS athletic department, the track budget was cut a few days after they won the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. Not to mention the football program fights just to get ample equiptment for the kids. They wont even give them money for knee braces that could save a kid from a carreer ending injury.

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Ive just had enough. I am good friends with most of the coaches at WOS, and we as alumni and fans need to stand up for them. I dont understand why the schoolboard is so against athletics. I want to know how much revenue comes from the home games. I bet its pretty sustancial. I do know that 99% of that money does not go to the football department. Does that make sense to any of you? The dilema with the field for our semi-pro football team is just the tip of the iceburg. If the mismanagement of this district doesnt stop, then they are destined for the state to take over. No-one wants that. Please lets get some folks with the best intrest of the kids to run for the schoolboard and fix the dire situation. And somebody please explain to me why they charge $2100 to use a junior high field for semi-pro football.

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Ive just had enough. I am good friends with most of the coaches at WOS, and we as alumni and fans need to stand up for them. I dont understand why the schoolboard is so against athletics. I want to know how much revenue comes from the home games. I bet its pretty sustancial. I do know that 99% of that money does not go to the football department. Does that make sense to any of you? The dilema with the field for our semi-pro football team is just the tip of the iceburg. If the mismanagement of this district doesnt stop, then they are destined for the state to take over. No-one wants that. Please lets get some folks with the best intrest of the kids to run for the schoolboard and fix the dire situation. And somebody please explain to me why they charge $2100 to use a junior high field for semi-pro football.

Whoa Kicker!!! I just assumed ya'll were renting DR Hooks Stadium. That's incredible!

I am not sure how much the district charges, or if they charge at all, the youth football league here in Silsbee to let those guys play at Silsbee's old stadium Kirby Memorial but I am pretty sure it is not $2100.

I'll ask around to find out.

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Field use by the youth teams are usually allowed by the School Districts because it is for the community...Little or no charge in most cases if the organization takes care of the field.  If they don't take care of it...it cost more. 

Some Districts charge way to much even if its for their own kids.  Try coming up with 1200.00 a day, for some youth leagues, and still not be able to use the lights.

Use of a field for profit or other than "comunity use" is different story.  They don't have to care if it isn't for the benefit of the community... sad but true. Even if the money raised goes towards the community in the long run.

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They need to take that money and make improvements to the Field and Track.

I know this isnt HS football related, but the WOCCISD needed to get exposed for this. Im trying to figure out what they are doing with the money.

I dunno Coop, the bad track may be the reason their runners are so fast? ::):o?

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Ive just had enough. I am good friends with most of the coaches at WOS, and we as alumni and fans need to stand up for them. I don't understand why the schoolboard is so against athletics. I want to know how much revenue comes from the home games. I bet its pretty substantial. I do know that 99% of that money does not go to the football department. Does that make sense to any of you? The dilemma with the field for our semipro football team is just the tip of the iceburg. If the mismanagement of this district doesn't stop, then they are destined for the state to take over. No-one wants that. Please lets get some folks with the best intrest of the kids to run for the schoolboard and fix the dire situation. And somebody please explain to me why they charge $2100 to use a junior high field for semipro football.

Whoa Kicker!!! I just assumed y'all were renting DR Hooks Stadium. That's incredible!

I am not sure how much the district charges, or if they charge at all, the youth football league here in Silsbee to let those guys play at Silsbee's old stadium Kirby Memorial but I am pretty sure it is not $2100.

I'll ask around to find out.

Oh yeah, the middle school field, not the HS. And we are NPO, and try to give back to the community. We also asked them if we could maintain the field and bleachers for them, and they said no. I believe we pay 600 for them to paint the field then another $600 for them to clean the field and yada yada yada. Its down right ridiculous. Then they didn't even mow the field one game, but guess what we still had to pay for the field maintenance.

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If you pay for a service and don't get service you find a way to get your money back. You might have been hesitant in doing so, while you played there, but you aren't now. Get your money. 600.00 here 600.00 there YADA YADA!  ;)

Our GM went to the schoolboard meeting after notifying them he wanted to speak at the meeting. They said sure. Well, he sat through the whole meeting and when it was his turn to address the board, they said meeting adjourned. They didn't want to hear what he had to say and ended the meeting. Everyone else got to speak but him. I guess its a socialist schoolboard. ha ha

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If you pay for a service and don't get service you find a way to get your money back. You might have been hesitant in doing so, while you played there, but you aren't now. Get your money. 600.00 here 600.00 there YADA YADA!  ;)

Our GM went to the schoolboard meeting after notifying them he wanted to speak at the meeting. They said sure. Well, he sat through the whole meeting and when it was his turn to address the board, they said meeting adjourned. They didn't want to hear what he had to say and ended the meeting. Everyone else got to speak but him. I guess its a socialist schoolboard. ha ha

If they had my $600 I wouldn't go away that easily.

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If you pay for a service and don't get service you find a way to get your money back. You might have been hesitant in doing so, while you played there, but you aren't now. Get your money. 600.00 here 600.00 there YADA YADA!  ;)

Our GM went to the schoolboard meeting after notifying them he wanted to speak at the meeting. They said sure. Well, he sat through the whole meeting and when it was his turn to address the board, they said meeting adjourned. They didn't want to hear what he had to say and ended the meeting. Everyone else got to speak but him. I guess its a socialist schoolboard. ha ha

If they had my $600 I wouldn't go away that easily.

No doubt!

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I don't mean this to be ugly but where are they spending their money because if it is on education they apparently are not getting their moneys worth.

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I don't mean this to be ugly but where are they spending their money because if it is on education they apparently are not getting their moneys worth.

Thats not ugly at all. I am an alumni and avid supporter and also want to know where the money goes. Its getting rediculous. CHANGE needs to be made. If a "government" is not working, then new leaders are elected. I say government in quotation due to the fact that a school board is a type of government.

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