Luxury suites at a high school game is insane!
Barry Sanders's son was on the team for
the other high school in our district the last few seasons (I think he's in college now) and that school has always been the better one here for football. If Barry Sanders can sit on the uncomfortable cold metal bleachers to watch a game just like the rest of us we definitely don't need luxury suites!
Our high school has a big brand new "auxiliary gym" that has an indoor field, a nice weight room, a golf simulator, running track, etc. There was a millage to improve the athletic facilities at our two high schools and the three middle schools in the district (and they
did definitely need some improving) but the auxiliary gym and all of its features were out of the scope for what the millage was designed to cover. The owner of the Phoenix Suns went to our high school and still lives in the district and stepped in and ponied up some money to cover the extra costs. We went on a tour of the facility when it opened at the end of last summer and it's pretty nice but it's got all these cheesy inspirational quotes from Ishbia all over the place. I guess if that's the price to pay to get some rich donor to step in, it could definitely be worse.
My big complaint with our high school football program is that our concession stand sucks. It has hot dogs and hamburgers (though the hot dogs are legitimately fantastic) and chips and soda and usually pizza.... and that's about it. We cannot even get a hot chocolate when it's cold! Then last season we went to an away game at a school the next district over and they had pulled pork, pulled chicken, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, Italian sausages, big soft pretzels, street tacos, nachos, etc. I was legitimately jealous! And their prices were better!
Our godson plays on that team and we were talking to his parents and they were saying the football parents run the concession stand (same as our school) and about a decade ago some mom and dad came in and took over and really up-ed the game. They usually do enough sales during the season to give each graduating senior on the football team something like a $2k or $2.5k scholarship from the Boosters as long as one of their parents also puts in X number of volunteer hours over the course of the year.