Texas High School State Championship Games

[TVILLEDAWG2370]

You don't think I knew that? Come on man be for real....I was just saying

No offense but Thomasville couldn’t afford anything like that. Heck, no school in NC could probably. Football just isn’t that popular in NC as it is in Texas.

 

[BigBird12]

Regular season game in Ohio...

 

[Otis4411]

Regular season game in Ohio...

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I have a good buddy in Columbus Ohio and when State played OSU in 03 or 04 I went up there to see that game and spent the weekend with him. I'll never forget driving up there on friday evening. We cut the radio off in WV because it was all static. No xm back then. When I got closer to Columbus my wife turned it back on and at 6:00 pm about every station was a talk show of high school football.

 

[Otis4411]

I have family in Austin and we would go to Lewisville to visit friends, so I chewed the same dirt as you LOL! Yes, the Metroplex is loaded. We can't even build schools with lighted baseball fields here in Wake County. But the glaring difference I see in Texas(and other states) that's different than here in NC is that we have single school systems in most of the counties here, whereas Texas has separate school districts in their counties. For instance, Dallas City has their own school system, and multiple Independent School Districts in Dallas County.

I went to Austin in 1980 but was just driving through. I went to Willie Nelsons July 4th picnic at the golf course he had just bought. They were filming for the movie honeysuckle rose. Between drugs, alcohol, and the Hells Angels I don't know how I made it back alive. It was a bad crowd to be in.

 

[FOOTBALLFANTIC]

The UIL (Texas equivalent of the NCHSAA) uses 9-12 numbers for the classifications. Like Charlotte middle schools some of the 9-10 high schools feed more than one senior high school so they have to figure out the senior high school the student is districted to.

Allen has grades 10-12 (I may have wrote 11-12 in another posts). They utilize a freshman academy like Richmond County does here. I am not sure if it was put to a vote or just general consensus about twelve years ago when the discussion of expansion or a new school came up and sticking with one school was the decision. Allen is in a county that has over a million residents and includes several cities such as Plano and McKinney. McKinney has several high schools and many areas of the city feed non McKinney ISD schools which I found confusing as it was explained to me. Another good football school, or was, is Celina but it is much smaller.

I think Texas may budget much more money to their schools than NC.

That's what I was talking about in my post-all of those towns(Allen and McKinney are both in Collin County, north of Dallas) have their own school districts. About 2/3 of students in McKinney attend McKinney High, North High, McKinney Boyd or Serenity High. The remaining 1/3 attend other area high schools, such as Allen. There are 12 high schools in Collin County, as small is 530 at Melissa High to as large as 4,700 at Allen. Here in Cary, where I live, Cary High used to have a Freshman Academy a few blocks away from the Senior High, but after recent renovations the academy is now on the same campus. I grew up in my elementary and middle school years in California. I remember living across the street from a friend of mine, and the district line ran down the middle of our street. We went to separate schools although we were the same age. I agree with you saying it's confusing.

 

[FOOTBALLFANTIC]

I went to Austin in 1980 but was just driving through. I went to Willie Nelsons July 4th picnic at the golf course he had just bought. They were filming for the movie honeysuckle rose. Between drugs, alcohol, and the Hells Angels I don't know how I made it back alive. It was a bad crowd to be in.

Glad you made it out bro!!!