How do your facilities compare?

wow is that a public school? ive only see facilities looking like that at catholic schools, that weight room looked huge!

would have to say mine are below average.

My office- The corner of my apartment with my computer
Our locker room- We only get locker rooms for games, most of the time we change in the corner of the stands.
Weightroom- A small room in the basement of the hockey arena that we have to share with 3 hockey teams, a power lifting team, 2 wrestling teams, a boxing club, a thai kick boxing club, a brazilian ju jitsu club and a finnish baseball team.

Count your blessings that you get all the nice stuff you have! I'm not complaining at all about what we have to deal with, its one of the things that make my players better.

My weightroom is a closet with no windows and no ventilation. Most of the equipment is older than dirt and really not up to standards, but if I pregnant dog to the admins about it they would just tell me that its unsafe in there so no more lifting.

I have two offices, my apartment and my car. But I only have one paid assistant coach, so there isn't much need for a staff room or anything. We hold our team meetings in the art room because they won't allow us in the academic wing.

Seeing websites like that are depressing to me, I'm ready to move to where football is important. Starting to work on the teaching degree (I'm not certified) and then in a year or two I'll be begging you southern boys for a job! That is of course unless someone will hire me without teaching credentials!

doesn't even compare to wasting money on a birthday party

no, this is totally different. my daughter's 16th bithday party, and a HS football facility have absolutley nothing in common. if it is a source of pride that this hs has nice facilities for athletics, more power to them. wish i were so lucky to have the same. last time i checked the money spent came from the taxpayers of the community, and they had to approve of it being built. there is no sense of entitlement for the kids, they should be, and probably are, proud of the facilities they have for football. after all football probably pays for nearly every other sport to exist being that the gates are huge by comparison to other sports. i know my football money has paid for several pieces of equipment and uniforms of other teams here.

Has schools academic needs been met? I mean does the band have it's instrument's, the science class have it's beakers, and does the math class have all it's calculators. If the answer is yes to all those questions then great. The community should be proud of themselves. That is a wonderful facility they built. It is just awesome when communities can provide for all of their students academic and athletic needs. If the answer is no..then who did they really build it for? The kids..or themselves.

Quote from Jake831

"wow is that a public school? ive only see facilities looking like that at catholic schools, that weight room looked huge "

You must not coach in Illinois! I coach at a catholic school most of the catholic schools I know in Illinois have a budget that would only pay for the floor in those pictures.

Driscoll Catholic in Addison Illinois is a 5 time state champions (2001-2006) and they don't have poor facilities....They have NO FACILITIES!

Joliet Catholic- 12 time state champlion in Illinois has no football field and they lift off campus due to lack of facilities.

I would guess a lot of the money came from private donors. It's a beautiful facility, but I would have a hard time justifying building it. Maybe that's cause things are so depressed economically that I have a different perspective.

This is just a case of a school that cares for their athletics, I applaud the school for the outstanding athletic facilities.

I think it gives the kids a sense of pride. I see nothing wrong with a school spending cash on athletics, as long as the other departments are taken care of...

guess we know where the money is spent at that school.

and people wonder why we are falling behind the rest of the world in education.

I have to agree, there are more important things in this world than multimillion dollar high school facilities. Am I the only one who likes his weight room kinda grungy? I mean.. I want new equipment, but I want the smell of sweat and stink in my weight room, makes me think that there's some hard work goin on in there. I don't want my weight room lookin TOOO new. Plus, come on guys...they have the school emblems on the bench pads, thats just insane.

To see if their academics compare to their athletics, they were 56th in the state of Georgia in SAT scores out of 158 ranked.

The big reason why foreign schools can spend less money and provide a higher level of education is that athletics is not a school sponsored activity. The kids have their gym period, and thats the only athletics that the school provides. I have talked to many teachers while I have been here and they all say the same thing, kids are in school to learn not to play sports. If a kid wants to play sports here, then he has to pay the fee and join a private club. He gets no breaks from teachers because of practice, nor is he allowed to take classes lower then his estimated intelligence level.

I think this is good because only the really disciplined kids will come out for my team because they have to get all their school work done and be able to put in work for football on his own time. Its own of the reasons why I'm proud of the two players I have coached who have gone on to college in the states (Stanford and Valparaiso).

Guys,

South Georgia football is as big as D1 football around here. I think Camden may have the best facilities in the state, but there are many other schools here in Georgia with rich tradition who take alot of pride in their football facilities. I don't think this is overkill at all. It installs pride in the athletes and breeds success. Last time I checked, they don't lose to often at Camden County (only 7 losses since 2000 and only 4 of those losses came since 2001).