threesoccermom wrote:http://www.freese.com/our-work/elm-fork-athletic-complex-master-plan-and-design

Great news for Dallas.

PG-Boy wrote:I've also heard about this "upcoming" soccer complex for many years.

The city of Dallas has a deficiency of fields.

Hopefully, if indeed built, the city will care for the place. At least, to the same "degree" as Hobby and Moss.

It would be best if a local league took the lead in managing the place. Otherwise it will quickly become a dust bowl like nearby Crown Park.

This is near a heavily Hispanic area of Dallas. Unless the fields are managed well (i.e. restricted for official games and not practices & adhoc scrimages), they will quickly be over-used due to the popularity of the game.

Pirate leagues destroy fields by over playing them until they become grassless wastelands. Heavy damage occurs too when they are wet from rain. It would be a shame to spend millions of taxpayer dollars only to allow the fields to be destroyed.

PG-Boy wrote:Hobby and Moss are relatively well maintained. They are not as nice as the parks in Plano, but in good shape.

It's exactly because they ARE padlocked from vehicles that the kids and adults in NTSSA have grass on the fields. The non-NTSSA fields are destroyed.

Richland in the Dallas city limits is off limits from free play.

The men's league, NTPSA locks up their fields in Balch Springs except for sanctioned matches.

If the fields are not protected for official matches, they will be destroyed.

Drive past Crown Park to get a peek at what happens to fields used by pirate leagues.

The kids in Dallas deserve good fields.

The solution to all that is to build a few outdoor futsal fields like the picture listed in a previous post. They cannot be harmed by unlimited play. Leave those gates unlocked and see if we have the interest that some of us believe we do.

PG-Boy wrote:

This is near a heavily Hispanic area of Dallas. Unless the fields are managed well (i.e. restricted for official games and not practices & adhoc scrimages), they will quickly be over-used due to the popularity of the game.

Pirate leagues destroy fields by over playing them until they become grassless wastelands. Heavy damage occurs too when they are wet from rain. It would be a shame to spend millions of taxpayer dollars only to allow the fields to be destroyed.

my2cents wrote:Love the thinking. The parks open to the public get so much use that they get destroyed so lets build more limited use parks not open to the public in general. Then lets start another topic on why the US can't field competitive teams after all we must be reaching a high percentage of kids with our exclusive high dollar competitive teams and no public fields.

wolverine wrote:

my2cents wrote:Love the thinking. The parks open to the public get so much use that they get destroyed so lets build more limited use parks not open to the public in general. Then lets start another topic on why the US can't field competitive teams after all we must be reaching a high percentage of kids with our exclusive high dollar competitive teams and no public fields.

Can I get an amen?

soccerisgood123 wrote:"REALLY? How about we build even more fields in North Dallas suburbs so NON-HISPANIC upper-class kids get to enjoy more privileges and advantages. God forbid we let those Hispanics "over-use" publicly funded parks to encourage dreams and passion for a game that only Non-Hispanic upper-class kids with money to afford soccer club tuition should exclusively enjoy!

PG, please help me understand your comment.

I say build and keep building especially in areas where the fields will be over-used."


what a nice speech. perhaps you can sell it to the taxpayers that they should foot the bill for people to play free, who don't pay the tax bill, destroy the fields after they are built and the city should lose money on the deal. Hispanics should not get a free ride because they are hispanic. Build your own financially self sustaining leagues LIKE EVERYONE ELSE is required to do.