This is what I've located so far. 9/6 - Wakeland vs Centennial 9/14 - Cent. vs Sachse 10/5 - Frisco vs The Colony 10/12 - Cent. vs McKinney North 10/19 - Cent. vs Frisco (Frisco Derby!!!) 10/26 - Wakeland vs Princeton 11/2 - Frisco vs McKinney North 11/9 - Cent. vs McKinney Pretty busy schedule, just about every Friday night. And this is only FISD events. Last year a Plano team played a Dallas team at PHP, so there might be other games. Looks likes lines on the field from here on out, including the playoffs.
holy crap. I thought you guys said that only rivalry games were played @ PHP. At least they won't be painting their name and logo on the field........right? I propose that PHP makes the football teams play with yellow grid lines like soccer teams have to do at football stadiums.
total b.s. deal. My home town of poeass Ennis built a 10,000 seater. Denton has a 12,500 seater. There are tons of great football stadiums in the area. "Let's F up the only pro soccer pitch in north Texas, yeah that's what we should do". time for Frisco Stadium officials to re-negotiate away a stupid idea. While I'm at it, no more firking La wuss games either. take your sticks and nets and shove 'em or go to Ireland and Hurl. If I see football lines at any FC Dallas games I am instantly going to be a major F'ing pain to the FO.
What do you mean?? FISD gets total control of Thursday and Friday nights. As far as I can see they are only playing on those days.
Drum'r Boy talked yesterday about Denilson helping the team sell MLS soccer as a "real major league" sport. That job is going to be a lot harder with football lines for a *high school* football game on the pitch. I'm optimistic about Denilson, but his reputation as a global has-been will only be furthered by the image of him playing on a high school football field.
So the FO is willing to give the FISD back the $20 million it donated to the construction of PHP? And even if they are, you'll have to put a price tag on the goodwill created by being associated with the FISD rather than it being an exlusively for profit, professional sporting venue. There was no public vote regarding funding for PHP, but I can assure you the city council wouldn't have been so free to part with millions of $$'s if this wasn't a public/private partnership.
Correction: the high schools are borrowing OUR stadium. I doubt Roger Staubach or Troy Aikman's images have ever been hindered by the fact that Plano or Odessa Permian used Texas Stadium.
Y'all . . . I may be totally wrong, but I think the football games (especially if they are FISD games) are played on the SprintTurf field (I think it's field #4) that's already marked as a football field (which is why they even HAVE that field, I believe). I don't think they play inside the stadium.
No, the only use Dr Pink for JV...these are full Varsity games and they will be on the field inside the stadium. This is NOTHING NEW, people. This was always the deal.
I didn't know this (not that I've studied the PHP stadium agreement). I did know that they shared the facilities with FISD. Well . . . I guess we'll see how the field looks on Saturday. Go HOOPS!
IIRC correctly last year there were not many football games and luckily none of those games were played in rainy conditions which would chew up the field. This will be the real test. There were some light football lines visible during 2006 season soccer games and I was pleased to say it was almost bearable.
There were less, and, yes, conditions were very favorable. We also had several instances were a game would be followed by a week or more rest between games. That isn't the case anymore. We knew that 2006 would be a light schedule. Now that there are 3 Varsity football teams in Frisco that is no longer the case. Next year there will be 4.....so....more of the same. It was almost hard to see if you sat close to the pitch, it was easier to see from the concourse area, and it looked damn near like fresh white lines on TV.
you better read it again. I didn't see 5+ games in the deal. I don't give a crap if they play in the stadium to be honest with you but to paint the field with a football grid and leave it is 100% f'd up. Chalk it and rub it off or whatever you have to do but FCD is technically the main tennant and should get the last say. Tell me I'm cheesy but I like the atmosphere of PHP in its soccer clothes and that's what I pay season ticket money for. If I wanted to see a highschool football field then I'd go down to Ennis and watch some real football and not Frisco's crap teams.
That's probably because they never specified the number. FISD has ownership of Thursday and Friday nights YEAR ROUND. I'm not great at math, but that's probably more than 5. You do realize that it's FCD's field people doing the work, right? Not only do they have "the last say", they are the ones making the lines. You wouldn't be watching soccer at PHP if it wasn't for the high school football games. I'm not calling you cheesy, I'm calling you misinformed.
Hey, I could care less about pointyball. I would like nothing more than for PHP to be exclusively soccer. But that ain't the reality.
No, he is a realist. We're only what, two years into this stadium? We're still figuring out details - trying to push the envelope in places to see how things work. It will probably even be another year or so before we're really explored the whole universe of what we can do to maximize the use of the stadium without going too far.
Man, I am spending my whole life trying to get a clue, and here you are finishing off the universe in two years.
The first FCD game I watched was a PHP playoff game with grid lines. At first I thought "WTF" but now that I have seen what could be if we played at Rice Eccles or Quest where they have the thick sideline and the midfiedl/endzone paint, I think the faint grid lines at PHP are no big deal.