The movie Radio is based on a true story of T.L. Hanna High School football coach and a mentally challenged man, named Radio. This story took place in the 70s in the small town of Anderson, South Carolina. The qualities of the facilities in the movie were common during this time period. The football field, basketball court, locker rooms, storage area, bleachers, and offices appeared to be a good quality for a high school in the south. In the movie, fans came to the football and basketball games to show their support with filling bleachers to capacity. The community was really supportive of the local high school teams, from the town’s barbershop to the grocery store. The people came together as a whole to cheer on high school athletes.
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High School sports take competition to levels that are great and as schools dominate the sport more money is poured into facilities. A common renovation for football fields is the change in field grounds to artificial turf. The turf enhances athletes’ sport performance which provides the best traction, injuries are less, and drainage during all weather conditions. I have had the opportunity to compete in some super nice track and field stadiums, the late 70’s and early 80s. The stadiums includes a press box and the track surface was all-weather including a quarter-mile running track with a 200 yard straight-away, pole vaulting and jumping pits. The facilities also include high jump, pole vault, long jump, discus and shot put areas. I have visited facilities which had a top quality indoor fieldhouse including 50 yard track, large weight and locker rooms. Today’s athletics are a priority cost for schools and usually fan support dictate how big and wealthy sport programs are to an athletic department. High school sports are becoming enormous competition events. On any given Friday night people flood their local high school football games. It’s like a market for high school sports, it keeps expanding from the love of the games. I believe this craze with pouring money into high school sports started in the early 80's when local networks, along with ESPN, featured high school events, especially football. Although, many schools took hits in their budget they seem to get around cuts and obtain funds from public and private businesses. This is the reason we see state-of-the-art high school football stadiums with spectator seating in the thousands. The money in sports for high schools is growing and facilities are newer, bigger and expensive with the necessary fields, tracks and stadiums, rather than piecemeal after
High School sports take competition to levels that are great and as schools dominate the sport more money is poured into facilities. A common renovation for football fields is the change in field grounds to artificial turf. The turf enhances athletes’ sport performance which provides the best traction, injuries are less, and drainage during all weather conditions. I have had the opportunity to compete in some super nice track and field stadiums, the late 70’s and early 80s. The stadiums includes a press box and the track surface was all-weather including a quarter-mile running track with a 200 yard straight-away, pole vaulting and jumping pits. The facilities also include high jump, pole vault, long jump, discus and shot put areas. I have visited facilities which had a top quality indoor fieldhouse including 50 yard track, large weight and locker rooms. Today’s athletics are a priority cost for schools and usually fan support dictate how big and wealthy sport programs are to an athletic department. High school sports are becoming enormous competition events. On any given Friday night people flood their local high school football games. It’s like a market for high school sports, it keeps expanding from the love of the games. I believe this craze with pouring money into high school sports started in the early 80's when local networks, along with ESPN, featured high school events, especially football. Although, many schools took hits in their budget they seem to get around cuts and obtain funds from public and private businesses. This is the reason we see state-of-the-art high school football stadiums with spectator seating in the thousands. The money in sports for high schools is growing and facilities are newer, bigger and expensive with the necessary fields, tracks and stadiums, rather than piecemeal after