Why does the PIAA play state championships during the school day?
- Thread starter Sean Miller Fan
- Start date
Baltimore was end may 2021, so 18 months, east north street mid November, (lived there in the 90s) dec 1st by Dickinson west locust and bretz
have fun behind Giant, there is plenty of stuff that doesn’t even make the paper.
i don’t live in town, but there often rehabbing old properties and fixing up rentals and keep my eyes open, and aware of my surroundings.
Turf, modern score board, modern locker rooms, training rooms, adequate seating , parking
CV has it all , except parking could be better
Yep
this one however is bigger, newer and nicer than most, centrally located in the state, and only a couple miles from a pa turnpike exit, and the same from i81 exit
tons of hotels and restaurants within a few miles
I don’t really think it should be there either, but Hershey park has deteriorated badly and it’s a better option at this time my opinion
Because it isnt a HS stadium. A HS stadium is something a poor irrelevant football state would do. PA is the only major football playing state to play at a HS. If it was such a genius idea, everyone would do it. But, nope, just PA.
You obviously haven't seen a true state of the art high school stadium if you think Cumberland Valley qualifies.
Eagle Stadium (Allen, Texas) - Wikipedia
Hersheypark Stadium is a dumpy venue for second rate concerts and tractor pulls, let the kids play in the nicer stadium, so what if it’s at a high school. Harrisburg is weird in that there's no decent sized public university in the area, if there was say a Pennsylvania Tech located in Harrisburg that played at the FCS level and had a 5,000ish seat stadium the state championship should be played there, but there isn't.
Thats wonderful we get your point.... I think where they had it is a good compromise, if you don't like it don't goYou obviously haven't seen a true state of the art high school stadium if you think Cumberland Valley qualifies.
(and this one is actually a decade old at this point)Eagle Stadium (Allen, Texas) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Fourteen public universities in the state and not one in Harrisburg. Or really in any town of significance. It's killing enrollment.
I played at Hershey a few times, and watched games many other times. It’s a cool experience and a neat venue (when you go down the stairs out of the locker room and you see the big lighting banks pop up when you walk through the tunnel, it gives you chills), but the amenities are legitimately straight out another century. The locker rooms, the sports medicine facilities, the playing surface, the bathrooms and concessions, all of it. It’s a facility that was in desperate need of a full renovation 10 years ago, and that would probably run well into the 8 figures.
Yes, there are a lot of nice high school stadiums in the WPIAL so I was just getting at what they have at CV isn't anything out of the ordinary for a high school. The new field and stands on both sides is a plus. The track around the field and relatively small looking press boxes (at least from the pictures I've seen) are a minus. Adequate if you're going to play a championship at a high school stadium, but certainly nothing special.
It no coincidence the one that is doing the best is the one closest to a major city in West Chester.
It was because the New York Penn League shutdown when MLB did their minor league reduced from 160 to 120 minor league teams. Ironically they are now part of an MLB owned league. The first half of the season the teams are made up of college players with eligibility remaining then the second half is made up of recently drafted players. The university owns and built the stadium but Lubrano donated $2.5 million of the $31 million project.
Because they have to compete with 50 PSU branch campuses for an extended high school education.
Weren't the PSAC schools strategically placed in these small towns to help drive local economies and keep some towns afloat?
PA really screwed up its higher education system. If they could totally do things over from scrath, PSU should have 4 or 5 branch campuses and all the PSAC schools should be located in or near the most populated PA cities. For example, the "University of Harrisburg" and "University of Erie" should be D1 universities in the MAAC or Horizon League or something like that but they dont exist. BTW, a quick google search shows Erie as #5 and Millcreek as #12 in population. Never would have thought that about Millcreek but I guess McDowell is 6A.
not pretty much smack dab in the middle of the state with great interstate access from all directions..
second rate concerts...Gee, not much of a concert goer but I did not know the last two I saw there (Billy Joel and U2) back in the day were second raters..
I am an old fart...I do not know what constitutes a "big name" nowadays as I think pretty much all music in the last 30 years sucks and the age of the big concert event is of a bygone era.. I know they had that Lady GooGoo or whatever her name is down there last year and I think that was a big deal...
In any case I kind of despise the greedy folks at Hershey more than ever since I was charged 5 bucks for a standard Hershey bar that I could smell being made while at a play at the Hershey Theater. The play was Fiddler on the Roof so "if I were a rich man" was ringing in my head.
Pittsburgh just had three stadium shows in four days last summer. There are huge music festavals all over the country now (although sadly, none in western PA). There are way more big concert events now than there were "back in the day".
Yes. It might have worked once upon a time. Now? Who wants to go to Clarion, California, Mansfield, Lock Haven and Edinboro?
some people prefer those rural outposts..
If you like the outdoors, hiking, fishing, etc..
To each his own..
Again, if your beloved PSU didn't have 50 branch campuses printing diplomas it wouldn't be a problem.
Who wants a crap degree from Cal U when you can get a crap degree that says PSU?
Hey Jan, why are you belittling degrees? How about Pitt’s branch campuses? Are they crap too? McKeesport University of Pennsylvania, New Kensington University of Pennsylvania, Bradford University of Pennsylvania, Titusville University of Pennsylvania?
You're perplexed Cindy, when the answer is obvious. The need to create as many PSU drones as possible outweighs keeping the other state schools viable. Their enrollment decline is related to the PSU empire expansion, and not their location.
Baloney. Penn State’s newest branch is 55 years old. The Harrisburg campus was established in 1966. It took that long for someone to locate a university in a city where people actually live. The Berhend branch was established in 1948.
Why haven’t they yet established a branch in Cranberry?
Why haven’t they yet established a branch in Cranberry?
Johnstown's minor league baseball stadium??... Spoken by a man who has never been to a Walnut Heights football game...
At anyone time in the late 70s or 80's you had Foreigner, Aerosmith, Journey, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Doobie Brothers, Tom Petty, Heart, Chicago and on and on and on touring at the same time..Care to list the concurrent equivalent headliners touring at the same time today?
Similar threads
Latest posts
-
-
-
-
-
Recruiting Update Pitt offers Western Carolina transfer OL
- Latest: pitt90seven