Plains ISD To Spend $21 Million on an Indoor Football Facility

Plains, Texas is not a large city, but they are spending big on the school's football program. And we all know football is king in West Texas.

According to a report from KAMC, Plains ISD recently filed a permit to build a two-story indoor football practice facility. It will come complete with locker rooms, offices for coaches, weight room and indoor practice field.

Plains, Texas has a population of just over 1,300 people according to Chron.com and the High School serves roughly 118 students. Plains Football is a 2A school district. So how can they afford a new indoor practice facility?

Oil.

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As the Chron.com report points out, Plains is in the middle of an oil patch and while they may not have a lot of people, they are rich in oil money.

Per lead architect Stephen Butler of A&E Design Group, Inc., the small town's geographical location has been advantageous to reinvest in sports in the area.

"It's very rich and not many people live there. The [town is] right smack dab in the middle of the oil field," Butler said to Chron on Monday. "And the taxes, if you don't spend money on bond issues, it gets sent down to the Rio Grande Valley, where there's poorer school districts ... So they pass bond issues in order to pay off their bonded indebtedness with their tax monies."

Plains ISD posted about the new facility on Facebook.

The student athletes will love it. That is for sure. Plains, Texas is located over an hour southwest of Lubbock.