Moore Stadium Upgrades

[andimthomas]

Does anyone have more info on the upgrades? From what I saw, there are new lights, visitor side bleachers, and ticket booths.

[MonkeesFan]

Interesting, that is cool, they were in need of a upgrade for years and finally happened! GO WESTMOORE!

[andimthomas]

Interesting, that is cool, they were in need of a upgrade for years and finally happened! GO WESTMOORE!

I completely agree. But go Southmoore.

[SOONER8693]

I was told there will be a video board. And, southmoore cheats by recruiting.

[MonkeesFan]

A video board? That sounds very nice and all but that is unneccasary, who is going to look at the video board while they watch the action live?

[jn1780]

They started construction on Westmoore's additions also. There is a construction trailer in Westmoore's East parking lot.

[MonkeesFan]

Westmoore getting a new stadium? They sure need one but I don't really see any room
for a stadium

[soonerkev]

Westmoore is not getting a stadium. They're getting a new gym and upgrades to their Performing Arts Center. Moore is also getting a new Performing Arts Center which will be located in the old faculty parking lot on the north end of campus.

[andimthomas]

I don't think Westmoore needs many upgrades to their PAC. They definitely need a bigger gym though. Moore needs their PAC ASAP. Hmm...a video board? Are you guys sure? I don't think the district can afford that right now. Plus if there was a new one going in they would have torn the old one down along with the stadium lights. I could always be wrong though. They did tear down that fencing along the hill where the scoreboard is and if I remember correctly, the fencing was fairly new. I think a digital scoreboard like Putnam City's would be nice.

[jn1780]

I think all these projects were approved in the 08 bond vote.

[Spartan]

That is correct about the bond vote. The interesting thing about the bond vote is how the west side of town (aka the "Westmoore" area) overwhelmingly voted no against it, while the east side of town (aka Moore proper) carried the vote. The reason is because Moore just got so much more out of it than Westmoore, and it meant all of our Maps for Kids allotment would go towards new elementary schools and Southmoore, and not our school, which was and still is the only MPS high school in OKC proper.

I remember many, many football games at that stadium..lots of good Friday nights there several years ago. Btw, have the Lions beaten us yet? Aren't we on like 7 or 8-years straight of beating them? Go Jags!

[MonkeesFan]

That is correct about the bond vote. The interesting thing about the bond vote is how the west side of town (aka the "Westmoore" area) overwhelmingly voted no against it, while the east side of town (aka Moore proper) carried the vote. The reason is because Moore just got so much more out of it than Westmoore, and it meant all of our Maps for Kids allotment would go towards new elementary schools and Southmoore, and not our school, which was and still is the only MPS high school in OKC proper.

I remember many, many football games at that stadium..lots of good Friday nights there several years ago. Btw, have the Lions beaten us yet? Aren't we on like 7 or 8-years straight of beating them? Go Jags!

It is 9 straight and counting! Let's make it 10 this year!

[Spartan]

Haha, sweet. One thing I miss about going to OU is still being able to go to HoCo and Moore War with old HS friends..going to college like 5 miles from where you went to HS..ha.

[bombermwc]

Well the Moore Ware "ain't what it used to be". The days of Moore and Westmoore being good teams are long gone. Moore hasn't fielded a good team since about 2000 and Westmoore since about 2006. Southmoore definitely stole the Westmoore talent, and Moore's just had a string of horrible coaches. Sorry guys, but right now Moore and Westmoore rank up there with NW Classen. Just have to go back and look at the score from when MWC played them the last two seasons to see that. And had MWC played Southmoore later in the season after MWC got their offense figured out, that overtime loss would have been a regulation win.

Glad to see the place getting some upgrades. It's like going to Mustang's pile of crap. Those stinking hard concrete bleachers suck. And I've always been surprised at how junky the home side was...and small. Visitor concessions and bathrooms were always pathetic as well...although those are better than they once were. With 3 teams being there now, the "visitor" is also a "home" team a lot more often in the season. So the visitor side needed to be upgraded...much like PC had done for the very same reason.

Now you want to see a craptacular stadium. MWC's is a rustbucket. They spent tons of bond money on a new field, track, lighting, sound, etc. But left the crap that is the actual stadium there. Ugh. If only a plan would accidentally drop something on the seating...both sides....

[earlywinegareth]

Something like this would be nice: http://highschoolsportsblog.dallasne...ndication.html

[MonkeesFan]

Something like this would be nice: http://highschoolsportsblog.dallasne...ndication.html

That stadium looks nice!

[metro]

go Northmoore NativeCats

[Spartan]

go Northmoore NativeCats

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[SOONER8693]

It is 9 straight and counting! Let's make it 10 this year!

Westmoore's defense will be outstanding this year. Westmoore has a very strong senior class and a very strong sophomore class and should be noticably improved over last year's debacle. Also, when the construction crew arrived to start to remove the east parking lot at WHS for the new facility, they told the Westmoore admin that the north entrance to Westmoore would be closed for the duration of the project, 18 months. Now, I don't know if that has been revisisted by the district and the construction company, but if that remains intact, OMG. One entrance in and out of WHS. On another WHS note, this will be the smallest senior class in Westmoore history, about 445. Now, it should start to go back up after this year, as the opening of southmoore's affect on the district evens out.

[Pete]

That Allen (Dallas area) HS stadium is going to cost $60 million!!!

Absurd.

[bombermwc]

Agreed Pete....to spend that much money on a high school football stadium is just stupid. There have to be better things to spend 60 million in a school district than a freaking football stadium. And while football is popular in TX, what high school needs a 18K stadium? That's just beyond stupid and shows how misplaced their priorities are. We're not quite as misguided here, but we often see the same things happen here.

Look at Union high school. The UMAC is a good example of a private/public relationship gone stupid. Union gets this massive gym that's really a collegiate level facility stuck on their school....but the school doesn't own it. The school has to pay to use the facility...how dumb is that?

For 60 million, I think i'd invest in books/technology/training/etc. pretty much anything but a freaking stadium. How much are they going to have to pay in ongoing costs for electrical and staffing? I guarantee they will have to have a private security force...and they aren't free. The electricity for a place like that ain't free either. And guess who pays for that? The same taxpayers that paid to build the thing. It's a monument to their stupidity.

[earlywinegareth]

Drove by Moore stadium today. They are not getting new visitor side stands. What they did was add aluminum bleachers and created aisles with handrails on top of the existing concrete seating. If you've ever been there you'll remember all it was before was concrete steps the entire width of the field and you basically sat anywhere. There was a work crew of about 10 guys building new ticket booths on the west end. That's all I could see from the parking lot.

[bombermwc]

My butt thanks them for finally putting some sort of seat in.

[dankrutka]

Go Jags! That is all.

[Dio]

Back in the day, we were the Northmoor Headhunters- complete with a non-politically-correct native looking mascot with a bone in his hair.

And go old school Lions, when the entire damn district went there.