Best/Worst NC HS stadium you’ve been to & why.

[SPRaiders78]

Being a lower seed in the playoffs is never a good thing but I really enjoy going to stadiums I’ve never visited. If you only follow your home team, playoffs are usually the only time you can see new stadiums. As long as I get to see games and have a decent seat I’m happy. I rarely go to the concession stand after a game has started. During the game, no. At halftime the line is usually to long. Fan wise, give me Lincolnton and the folks from Pisgah and Burnsville. Top notch all the way.

 

[Mopar forever]

Worst field and music, Mitchell

I will get to see Robbinsville at Asheville week one so that's going be new for me.

That was a honest mistake last year I truly believe and I will not hold that against them...... it was bad tho😂

 

[SPRaiders78]

What mistake are you talking about Mopar; Pisgah, Robbinsville or Asheville? I’m a little confused.

 

[loveithere]

I could be wrong but I think he is referring to worst field and music, Mitchell. I cant speak to the field, but I was there when they played Robbinsville in the semi finals, and lets just say they had a major music malfunction.
Someone didnt pre screen the play list and it was pretty bad. LOL

 

[Mopar forever]

What mistake are you talking about Mopar; Pisgah, Robbinsville or Asheville? I’m a little confused.

Yeah last years game Mitchell v robbinsville someone didn’t pay attention and played some old DMX and it wasn’t a clean version 😂😂😂 I truly would like to know how many calls the school received on Monday morning from pissed off people

 

[BK13T-$]

The field is lumpy like you wouldn't believe.
The stadium is nice though.

 

[Shelby Lion]

I oft enjoy going to other stadiums and enjoy new places

Some of my favorites of course excluding Shelby because of course its my favorite

no particular order

Asheville High: Incredible views, beautiful stadium
Jameson in High Point : Huge stadium and got to see an incredible game there between Shelby and HPC
East Gaston: Not sure what it is about this stadium its just a nice place to take in a game, that crowd is very supportive of their warriors too..
Lincolnton: The chill from the river and watching our pal Lincolnton pacing on the home side is worth the visit
Ill say Hibriten but from the home side... Man it gets cold up there, but sitting on the home side is nice....
Catholic high... Everything close its an awesome environment
Pisgah: What an atmosphere up there, hard to match their enthusiasm
The old Maiden stadium that was a special place to catch a game
Newton Conover (Only because of the Heritage fans I sat amongst in that playoff game) They were hilarious.... The announcer back then talked about everyting BUT football though but pretty cool place to catch a game
Chase : yeah the farm I always have enjoyed catching a game there
Brevard: Whilst the visitor side wasnt that great, it was usually a cool place to catch a game..
Gaffney : the old stadium was fun to catch a game... havent been to the new one
I always enjoyed South Point too: sitting amongst the unwashed masses of those heathens was a site to behold... Actually some great folks down there... Just crazy ha ha

As far as title locations : Wake forest stadium, that is a fun place , not too big not too small, Id much rather watch a game there than State, Carolina or Duke

 

[rambbq]

Jameson stadium is in Greensboro on the campus of Grimsley high school......the Stadium in High Point where Central and Andrews play is SIMEON stadium...and it is a very nice facility.........

 

[Shelby Lion]

Jameson stadium is in Greensboro on the campus of Grimsley high school......the Stadium in High Point where Central and Andrews play is SIMEON stadium...and it is a very nice facility.........

Thats it. Simeon...Im old..... my bad

 

[Sportsnut17]

Thats it. Simeon...Im old..... my bad

I am not sure if it’s because of being city owned and no money. But they have let dressing facilities go down and playing surface was not in great shape. Playing surface maybe because 2 teams using it, don’t know if they play soccer on it too. But, as any stadium without a track around it makes watching game better. I actually thought the playing surface up above where HP Christian plays is better.

 

[Frank Lost Password]

I am not sure if it’s because of being city owned and no money. But they have let dressing facilities go down and playing surface was not in great shape. Playing surface maybe because 2 teams using it, don’t know if they play soccer on it too. But, as any stadium without a track around it makes watching game better. I actually thought the playing surface up above where HP Christian plays is better.

Simeon is nice, but used to be way better.

 

[Sportsnut17]

Simeon is nice, but used to be way better.

Simeon is nice, but used to be way better.

I am not sure last time you were there, my question is, have you been in the locker rooms? I refused to dress in them afraid of what I might catch. And I was there last football season and playing surface was not good. Stands, press box and surroundings are top shelf.

 

[Naquedskwirrels]

Idk if soccer plays on it but boys and girls lacrosse do.

 

[Wizard of the East]

I stopped by Cherokee and saw their field. It's awesome but I haven't taken in a game there.
The atmosphere at Tuscola hosting Pisgah was fun to be in. The biggest crowd I have ever been in for a high school game.
Worst atmosphere I have been in was Rocky Mount in the city stadium when we beat them in the Eastern finals one year. They have to be the worse people in the state.
I agree with 04 on most all of what he said. Northeastern does have a nice stadium with plenty of seating for visitors and @daagoob
I disagree on sound systems. That sound system at Clinton drove me nuts squawking out "TD Darkhorse's" all night. I still have nightmares.
East Duplin is a fine stadium and great atmosphere. I've been there a few times now and I'll never forget going to watch them beat North Davidson in the Eastern Finals a few years back. Their entrance with all the fireworks rivaled any entrance I have ever seen in high school or college. It's just a great place to enjoy high school football. I intend to go back to see Pisgah host Tuscola this year. I was offered a house in the mountains to stay in if I went back.

Let me know I might join you at the game and get in on the half and half?

 

[Chute Boxe Hero]

Best: Simeon Stadium in High Point. Not a bad seat in the house.

Worst: SW Randolph. I've seen crackhouses in better shape.

 

[new_dawg]

The best I've been to are Asheville and East Burke.

The worst are at schools that don't exist any more:
>>The Charlotte Catholic field at the old school on Park Road was on a slope, there were trees overhanging the field, and the playing surface was all dirt between the hash marks
>>Beaver Creek in Ashe County was so dark the players needed miner's helmets to see.
>>Up until they built a new field, Chatham Central used to play on the outfield of its baseball field, and there was a light pole ON the end line (their new field is nice)
>>Greensboro Smith had a terrible playing surface until it was renovated recently

 

[RD28327]

Best stadiums: Richmond, Scotland, Grimsley, Sanderson, Wake Forest
Most improved: Pinecrest (I still remember it from the 70s and 80s)
Worst: SW Randolph (field must have been a cow pasture once upon a time).

Lee County was pretty good but has kinda lost its luster when Southern Lee opened. Kinda hard to even pack the home side, much less the visitors stands. Southern Lee needs to fix its visitors side. Middle of the visitors stands not lined up with the 50 yard line.

I also remember when Chatham Central played football and baseball in its baseball stadium (football was on the baseball outfield, though still a giant mudhole) before CC builit a football only stadium.

Would like to check out Montgomery Central now that it has a Jumbotron and artificial turf. I'll make it there come August if not before.

 

[Slasher Killer]

I'll do it by county:


Surry:

I like Elkin's the best. It's very unique as it's off the banks of that creek which I hear is a curse in the winter but when we play them it's always cool and nice. My junior year it poured and stormed which sucked. It's a very unqiue place; I can see how teams feared to play there 20 years ago. MA's is nice too; love how the factories are all around it. It embraces the town a lot. East's isn't the sexiest to look at but their grass is always top notch and the pressbox is epic.

Central's is the worst but that's by default. It's came a long way since when I first started. Their new pressbox is nice.



Stokes:

South's my favorite. It absolutely stinks the motherload in the summer time though (I've never sweated so much in my life than I did last August at their scrimmage. I was badly dehydrated and had a migraine after. Yuck.) In the fall when it cools it's truly special. The leaves blow onto the field and if it's not wet it's really chilly but I enjoy the chills there. It feels in spirit like a burial ground; it's always given me an odd feeling playing there. We used to get a lot of kids banged up there when we played there but we'd always do well. The 2015 game was my favorite. It was so cold but it was such a fun day. Same day West Stokes upset Carver and ended their glory run.

West's stadium is okay but it's kinda bland. I've never dug it that much to be honest. It's out in a pit of land and it gets weird weather. I've froze my butt off their before but also sweated it off too. I've been rained on and had my head blown off too. It's one of the more weather magnet places I've been too.

North Stokes is so old school. It's always really muggy there whenever I've seen a game and it's so out in the middle of nowhere. Both of my experiences there were awful. I had a water bottle thrown at my head there once when I was 18. I loved it lol.



Yadkin:

Neither are that great but Forbush has a decent little pressbox so it wins out. Having to walk a ton to get to both fields always sucked.





Wilkes:

All are old school stadium designs of their era (late 60's/70's,) for better and for worse. Central's is the best of what you have. You can tell due to being an old 3A school in the day who Wilkes county gave funds more too. I loved the little road you take to get to the field. Their box is nice too. We have a place to change which is really nice. North Wilkes's used to be the most rundown but they fixed up quite a bit under Chipman. Their scoreboard was solid. I absolutely despise their pressbox windows though. Horrendously bad. I could barely film the game we had last year due to having to move the window around just to see (the experience was so bad it inspired me to give up filming. I lost all hope in the process.) Whoever at Window World okayed that double sided window order shoulda been fired. So they get the nod for the worst due to that.

West I haven't seen in 11 years so I will this fall. I don't remember anything epic from when we scrimmaged there in 2011 but the box was really high up and you have good cover. East's is the more primitive of the 4 but it has a charm to it that screams solid old school 1A school. Plus seeing the mountains in the view is just killer.






Forsyth:

North Forsyth is probably my favorite. It's really accessible to get in and out of. Your bus parks right next to the field and there you are. Their press box has a wooden walk up ladder and there's plenty of chairs to sit on and you don't have to worry about a huge sign blocking anything (that's a bad Forsyth trend.) The field is always a good view from being up top and both sides has enough leverage to feel like your sitting upwards. Downside is there isn't any locker rooms close to the field and the scoreboard's a good 15 years old. They are supposed to be doing renovations from what I heard last fall so I'll see what they have in October.

Carver's is probably the most overlooked of the stadiums. It's honestly underated-idly solid. Granted it's pastoral in quite a few ways (field goal posts are straight out of 1985 and their pads are from the late 90's,) but it adds to the charm. Back when Crowell was the HC it was darn near impossible to win there. IDK if it was due to the intimidation factor or what but no one in our old conference could beat them. That changed fast. maintenance there slipped from 2016 to 2018. The coach there now has taken a lot of pride in making it look better. It looked a lot better when we played them last spring and still does on the NFHS games. I love the atmosphere there; as a fan there on random at it's best it's top notch. Love the PA guys they have. Both are very solid.

Walkertown's stadium honestly is one of the most blah I've ever seen. It's out in a pit like West Stokes so you experience the weather far more. In the summer it's super hot in the winter it's super cold. The lack of a locker room just hurts; it wasn't in the design. The pressbox is hard to get around on; their roof has a weird spot on that bounces when you walk on it and it's super loud and annoying. They musta missed a spot when building it. The lighting also is really dim; it's a weird place. The atmosphere never really felt right to me there either. I don't miss having games there at all. Same for Atkins honestly. I love their campus and stadium but everything feels so far removed from everything there. It's a long walk to get down that hill, plus you have to walk through a ton of ramps to get on either bleachers side. The pressbox logo is so big when I had to film you had to boost the tripod to it's max on height extension to get a basic view. Never could hear a crowd get excited there due to their band being so loud. I really loved their Sportcenter/FSU fight song mix but I woulda loved to been able to hear a cheering crowd for a change. It took forever to leave because the roads were always jammed. We had to wait a good 5 minutes to get out of the field sometimes. Bishop's stadium was always very unique. The double sided bleachers were one of a kind for sure. As a player their away side felt like being on the other side of the equator because we were all by ourselves. It was odd. It was a very fun experience though.

Worst would go to Walkertown; just a terribly designed stadium. Their campus is nice though. I always liked to look at their buildings.

 

[Slasher Killer]

As for non conference/playoffs:


Favorite: West Stanly. West Stanly's whole stadium complex was amazing to look at and ponder. We got there and didn't expect much after traveling to get there for forever (endowment game in 2015.) We got in the field house and seen a door at the end so I was the first to open it.. out was the stadium on the otherside of it. It looked nothing like I expected. It's honestly the closest I've ever came to having a Beetlejuice like moment where you open a door and your in another place lol.

I loved their scoreboard placement; it was right next to their fieldhouse at the head of the field and not the end. Their pressbox was really weirdly designed but I enjoyed it. Only one I've seen that had windows I could film through without opening. We played in a monsoon and destroyed their field. I felt bad for them. It made for a thriller where we won so the long drive home was fun.




Least Favorite: Despite all of it's reputation I didn't really dig Thomasville's stadium that much. It was way more run down than I expected it to be (this was in the Maxwell era.) Their field house was nothing like I expected as they let us tour it. The away side looked rough with that old press box just standing there. Their regular pressbox was hard to get in and out of; and I just burnt like in a frying pan up top of it. The field felt like forever away. Maybe it's because it was a scrimmage but I just didn't dig it there. None of us did it was a miserable day. Only plus side was none of our kids got hurt and it was easy to get there and back.

I never dug Salisbury's either. My senior year we played them in the first round there and it was a muddy soggy mess. I had crutches and had to crutch in the mud and got no help while they rode kids with broke arms around on the cart; that forever put that staff on my crap list. It's a good haul from the locker rooms to the field. Never understood that design. 2019 their stadium looked a lot better. Only real thing I didn't like was the pressbox had a bad hornets nest in it and I'm in danger of reactions from bees. It was a real anxiety deal getting in and out of that box. Thankfully I did by the end.

 

[Thunder_struck8712]

I mean shouldn't every school have a real life mascot on site Slash?

 

[Sportsnut17]

Slash is back, great job!!

OBTW, the view from East Wilkes visitors sideline is spectacular in the fall. One of my favorite places to ever attend games.

 

[ocdavis31]

As for non conference/playoffs:


Favorite: West Stanly. West Stanly's whole stadium complex was amazing to look at and ponder. We got there and didn't expect much after traveling to get there for forever (endowment game in 2015.) We got in the field house and seen a door at the end so I was the first to open it.. out was the stadium on the otherside of it. It looked nothing like I expected. It's honestly the closest I've ever came to having a Beetlejuice like moment where you open a door and your in another place lol.

I loved their scoreboard placement; it was right next to their fieldhouse at the head of the field and not the end. Their pressbox was really weirdly designed but I enjoyed it. Only one I've seen that had windows I could film through without opening. We played in a monsoon and destroyed their field. I felt bad for them. It made for a thriller where we won so the long drive home was fun.




Least Favorite: Despite all of it's reputation I didn't really dig Thomasville's stadium that much. It was way more run down than I expected it to be (this was in the Maxwell era.) Their field house was nothing like I expected as they let us tour it. The away side looked rough with that old press box just standing there. Their regular pressbox was hard to get in and out of; and I just burnt like in a frying pan up top of it. The field felt like forever away. Maybe it's because it was a scrimmage but I just didn't dig it there. None of us did it was a miserable day. Only plus side was none of our kids got hurt and it was easy to get there and back.

I never dug Salisbury's either. My senior year we played them in the first round there and it was a muddy soggy mess. I had crutches and had to crutch in the mud and got no help while they rode kids with broke arms around on the cart; that forever put that staff on my crap list. It's a good haul from the locker rooms to the field. Never understood that design. 2019 their stadium looked a lot better. Only real thing I didn't like was the pressbox had a bad hornets nest in it and I'm in danger of reactions from bees. It was a real anxiety deal getting in and out of that box. Thankfully I did by the end.

Slash, as a long time Thomasville fan, you may find it surprising that I agree with much of what you said about Cushwa. The problem is who owns the stadium versus who uses the stadium.

Cushwa is owned by the City of Thomasville. There is a small amount of use by the city’s rec department…no practice, but 2 or 3 rec games a year as they now travel to other places in Davidson County. The school system usually plays 13-20 games a year, depending on number of regular season home games and playoff games. That’s middle school, JV and varsity.

The city maintains the field and the schools have no responsibility for that. The last number I have was $37,500 in maintenance plus $10k in light bulbs that year (not an annual expense). The schools pay a total of $15k to use that facility and Finch Field for baseball. That’s a whole different story.

The concrete on the visitors‘ side is deteriorating after more than eighty years. Can’t be repaired so will take $400-500 k to tear out and rebuild. The visitors’ side bathrooms have had a lot of work, but are simply old. The field house had $50k spent on renovations about 12 years ago. All taxpayer money and private donation. No school system money could legally be spent on property they don’t own. The press box on that side is no longer used and isn’t safe. But then you have visiting coaches above the home side, which has resulted in a few ugly confrontations with fans. No violence….yet. But it’s not ideal.

So, what’s the problem? There are two school systems within the city limits of Thomasville. There are four county schools within the corporate limits. More students who live in the city go to schools other than TCS than are in the city system. Many parents of East Davidson and Ledford students pay for Cushwa Stadium, but can’t use it. So, bottom line, who pays for maintenance and improvement?

Does the city charge $50k a year, which would more closely represent actual cost at Cushwa and Finch? Obviously, that’s not affordable for TCS. And that doesn’t begin to address the need for improvements. Does city council continue to spend money from all taxpayers to benefit less than half? And no, the city can’t contribute money to East and Ledford for their fields. The city doesn’t own them. The status quo is not sustainable, but I don’t have the answer.

In the meantime, the city’s Parks and Rec folks do a great job with the resources they have. The field itself is great!

 

[Wolf4Lyfe]

Always loved experiencing new stadiums both as a player and a fan. Some of my favorites that aren't Von Ray Harris Field, and not so favorite in no order:

Richmond- No need to really explain why given the amount of times it has been mentioned. The pre game entrance is as good as it gets for high school football.
Smoky Mountain- Nice turf field and clean facilities.
Shelby- Nice playing surface and that concession stand is phenomenal. Once their new field house is built that place is going to be something else!
Hibriten- Visitor side sucks but the atmosphere is awesome.
Franklin- Something about "The Pit" just gets me. Great fan base and awesome place to see a game.

The not so favorites...

North Lincoln- Playing surface is spotty and extremely small visitor stands.
Hunter Huss- No flavor to the stadium and game day experience is lacking.
Jordan-Matthews- Old and small stadium.
Mountain Heritage- Did not like the location of it or the lack of visitor seating. The home side is pretty cool though.

 

[Lincolnton]

Wished you'd have included East Lincoln in the least favorite bracket just for the sake of a chilly nod.

 

[Triangle_FB_Commenter]

eastdavidson is terrible, mongomery central is bad, not a fan of south brunswick. eastern randolph's stadium/facilities is pretty bad.
i'd run single wing football in Union Pines all night though, them suckers kno grass and videoscreens.
soldier field is sick.

 

[RD28327]

eastdavidson is terrible, mongomery central is bad, not a fan of south brunswick. eastern randolph's stadium/facilities is pretty bad.
i'd run single wing football in Union Pines all night though, them suckers kno grass and videoscreens.
soldier field is sick.

Montgomery Central just got a Jumbotron and artificial turf. All the Brunswick County high schools have artificial turf. Single wing football all night @ UP??? 🤣

 

[Darkhorse04]

Single wing can win you alot of games but not likely the big one these days. I think Princeton runs the single wing. Huge OLine and they were best team all year until the ran into an equally athletic team in WRH in the playoffs that didn’t fall for all the misdirection and trickery. Even if they had made it to the state championship, if you can’t pass, you just can’t win these days. Unless your Tarboro LoL.

 

[owen98]

One of the nicest stadiums to me is Avery and one of the worst at least in 2006 was Wilkes Central

 

[Superkase1982]

Franklin- Something about "The Pit" just gets me. Great fan base and awesome place to see a game.

I did not expect to see the Panther Pit on anybody's good list. I always thought our stadium is a bit of a cracker jack stadium that just happens to have the best field around. We do have a good fan base, though, so thanks!

 

[wncbowhunter]

Worst field and music, Mitchell

If all goes as planned you will see a difference in both this season. Equipment on the field now to start the process for turf. And I can all but guarantee the music mishap will NEVER happen again. Personally I wish they would do away with it totally. Takes away frim the crowd in my opinion.

Go Mountaineers

 

[Superkase1982]

If all goes as planned you will see a difference in both this season. Equipment on the field now to start the process for turf. And I can all but guarantee the music mishap will NEVER happen again. Personally I wish they would do away with it totally. Takes away frim the crowd in my opinion.

Go Mountaineers

I hate playing canned music during high school football games. Let your crowd and your band fill that space. The only thing I can get behind is maybe a celebration clip or something like the intro to For Whom the Bell Tolls on 3rd/4th down.

Pre game music is an exception.

 

[BlueDevil1996]

If all goes as planned you will see a difference in both this season. Equipment on the field now to start the process for turf. And I can all but guarantee the music mishap will NEVER happen again. Personally I wish they would do away with it totally. Takes away frim the crowd in my opinion.

Go Mountaineers

if u have a good band like Mooresville ,u dont need music

 

[ncuball23]

I'll do it by county:


Surry:

I like Elkin's the best. It's very unique as it's off the banks of that creek which I hear is a curse in the winter but when we play them it's always cool and nice. My junior year it poured and stormed which sucked. It's a very unqiue place; I can see how teams feared to play there 20 years ago. MA's is nice too; love how the factories are all around it. It embraces the town a lot. East's isn't the sexiest to look at but their grass is always top notch and the pressbox is epic.

Central's is the worst but that's by default. It's came a long way since when I first started. Their new pressbox is nice.



Stokes:

South's my favorite. It absolutely stinks the motherload in the summer time though (I've never sweated so much in my life than I did last August at their scrimmage. I was badly dehydrated and had a migraine after. Yuck.) In the fall when it cools it's truly special. The leaves blow onto the field and if it's not wet it's really chilly but I enjoy the chills there. It feels in spirit like a burial ground; it's always given me an odd feeling playing there. We used to get a lot of kids banged up there when we played there but we'd always do well. The 2015 game was my favorite. It was so cold but it was such a fun day. Same day West Stokes upset Carver and ended their glory run.

West's stadium is okay but it's kinda bland. I've never dug it that much to be honest. It's out in a pit of land and it gets weird weather. I've froze my butt off their before but also sweated it off too. I've been rained on and had my head blown off too. It's one of the more weather magnet places I've been too.

North Stokes is so old school. It's always really muggy there whenever I've seen a game and it's so out in the middle of nowhere. Both of my experiences there were awful. I had a water bottle thrown at my head there once when I was 18. I loved it lol.



Yadkin:

Neither are that great but Forbush has a decent little pressbox so it wins out. Having to walk a ton to get to both fields always sucked.





Wilkes:

All are old school stadium designs of their era (late 60's/70's,) for better and for worse. Central's is the best of what you have. You can tell due to being an old 3A school in the day who Wilkes county gave funds more too. I loved the little road you take to get to the field. Their box is nice too. We have a place to change which is really nice. North Wilkes's used to be the most rundown but they fixed up quite a bit under Chipman. Their scoreboard was solid. I absolutely despise their pressbox windows though. Horrendously bad. I could barely film the game we had last year due to having to move the window around just to see (the experience was so bad it inspired me to give up filming. I lost all hope in the process.) Whoever at Window World okayed that double sided window order shoulda been fired. So they get the nod for the worst due to that.

West I haven't seen in 11 years so I will this fall. I don't remember anything epic from when we scrimmaged there in 2011 but the box was really high up and you have good cover. East's is the more primitive of the 4 but it has a charm to it that screams solid old school 1A school. Plus seeing the mountains in the view is just killer.






Forsyth:

North Forsyth is probably my favorite. It's really accessible to get in and out of. Your bus parks right next to the field and there you are. Their press box has a wooden walk up ladder and there's plenty of chairs to sit on and you don't have to worry about a huge sign blocking anything (that's a bad Forsyth trend.) The field is always a good view from being up top and both sides has enough leverage to feel like your sitting upwards. Downside is there isn't any locker rooms close to the field and the scoreboard's a good 15 years old. They are supposed to be doing renovations from what I heard last fall so I'll see what they have in October.

Carver's is probably the most overlooked of the stadiums. It's honestly underated-idly solid. Granted it's pastoral in quite a few ways (field goal posts are straight out of 1985 and their pads are from the late 90's,) but it adds to the charm. Back when Crowell was the HC it was darn near impossible to win there. IDK if it was due to the intimidation factor or what but no one in our old conference could beat them. That changed fast. maintenance there slipped from 2016 to 2018. The coach there now has taken a lot of pride in making it look better. It looked a lot better when we played them last spring and still does on the NFHS games. I love the atmosphere there; as a fan there on random at it's best it's top notch. Love the PA guys they have. Both are very solid.

Walkertown's stadium honestly is one of the most blah I've ever seen. It's out in a pit like West Stokes so you experience the weather far more. In the summer it's super hot in the winter it's super cold. The lack of a locker room just hurts; it wasn't in the design. The pressbox is hard to get around on; their roof has a weird spot on that bounces when you walk on it and it's super loud and annoying. They musta missed a spot when building it. The lighting also is really dim; it's a weird place. The atmosphere never really felt right to me there either. I don't miss having games there at all. Same for Atkins honestly. I love their campus and stadium but everything feels so far removed from everything there. It's a long walk to get down that hill, plus you have to walk through a ton of ramps to get on either bleachers side. The pressbox logo is so big when I had to film you had to boost the tripod to it's max on height extension to get a basic view. Never could hear a crowd get excited there due to their band being so loud. I really loved their Sportcenter/FSU fight song mix but I woulda loved to been able to hear a cheering crowd for a change. It took forever to leave because the roads were always jammed. We had to wait a good 5 minutes to get out of the field sometimes. Bishop's stadium was always very unique. The double sided bleachers were one of a kind for sure. As a player their away side felt like being on the other side of the equator because we were all by ourselves. It was odd. It was a very fun experience though.

Worst would go to Walkertown; just a terribly designed stadium. Their campus is nice though. I always liked to look at their buildings.

I enjoyed this. I have a little bit of a different take.

Surry- I think East Surry & Elkin have the best stadiums. I like how Elkin is backed up against the creek with the school in the background of the home side. I think ES has a great stadium because it’s 3/4 closed in with the hill and there isn’t a bad seat anywhere. They also have a ridiculous press box. Outside of Mount Airy’s scoreboard, I don’t think anything there is great. I think North Surry has the worst stadium.

Stokes- None of them are great. West might be the best, but that isn’t saying much.

Wilkes- Again, none are great, but Wilkes Central and East Wilkes both are better than the other. I know Alleghany is not a Wilkes school, but they have a beautiful view of the mountains as their backdrop.

Forsyth- I think Reagan is the best, but I also really like Tabor’s stadium. I think the worst is Atkins because of where the stadium is in relation to everything else. I actually do mind Walkertown’s stadium.

 

[Ladge]

The best I've been to are Asheville and East Burke.

The worst are at schools that don't exist any more:
>>The Charlotte Catholic field at the old school on Park Road was on a slope, there were trees overhanging the field, and the playing surface was all dirt between the hash marks
>>Beaver Creek in Ashe County was so dark the players needed miner's helmets to see.
>>Up until they built a new field, Chatham Central used to play on the outfield of its baseball field, and there was a light pole ON the end line (their new field is nice)
>>Greensboro Smith had a terrible playing surface until it was renovated recently

I remember a visiting coach complaining to Oddo about the Catholic field. Oddo told him "You only have to play on it once a year, We have to play on multiple times a year." We lovingly called it the Astrodirt!

 

[BlueVols]

Yeah last years game Mitchell v robbinsville someone didn’t pay attention and played some old DMX and it wasn’t a clean version 😂😂😂 I truly would like to know how many calls the school received on Monday morning from pissed off people

I was there. I can understand the mistake. What I can't understand that someone wasn't monitoring it or ran to the press box and pulled the plug. It went on way longer than it should have. The non-apologetic apology announced on the PA after the game was even worse.

 

[BlueVols]

f all goes as planned you will see a difference in both this season. Equipment on the field now to start the process for turf.

I thought all that project got killed off. Has it been resurrected?

 

[wncbowhunter]

I thought all that project got killed off. Has it been resurrected?

Yeah, Mtn. Heritage and Mitchell got legislation $$$, (we can argue that later and I will probably agree with you), for a new field. So they are laying the ground work now at Mitchell and then on to Yancey county is my understanding. I have been told around 6 weeks until completion on the new field.
Mitchell is also replacing the scoreboard and 40 second clocks. Not sure the time frame on those but I understand the clock is now gone.

Go Mountaineers

 

[PisgahBear9975]

I did not expect to see the Panther Pit on anybody's good list. I always thought our stadium is a bit of a cracker jack stadium that just happens to have the best field around. We do have a good fan base, though, so thanks!

The “Pit“ has always been a tough place to play, but IMO it is has lost a little of its luster since the football games are streaming online. Not even half full the last few games we played there.

 

[Superkase1982]

The “Pit“ has always been a tough place to play, but IMO it is has lost a little of its luster since the football games are streaming online. Not even half full the last few games we played there.

That's the downside of having such a good streaming crew. Those guys are fantastic, but I think it's become easier for some people to do that than come to the game.

 

[PisgahBear9975]

That's the downside of having such a good streaming crew. Those guys are fantastic, but I think it's become easier for some people to do that than come to the game.

Butts in seats are key, Especially for rivalry games.