Stadium Improvements

[maroontide06]

https://www.wlox.com/2025/06/07/dibervilles-warrior-stadium-undergo-multi-million-dollar-renovations/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=organicclicks&tbref=hp

[maroontide06]

Here’s an update at PRC.  Still have to finish turfing the sidelines and finish the painting but it looks to be on target for finishing before the season starts.

[Merlin]

I wish jones county would do some work to their stadiums but various personal interests and infighting blocks it. 

[pancho]

admins not wanting to spend funds in that area?

[maroontide06]

14 hours ago, Merlin said:

I wish jones county would do some work to their stadiums but various personal interests and infighting blocks it. 

I know West still runs on grass and that's fine, but they could really try to beef up that visitors section.  It needs help in the worst possible way.  Also they could flip it as well.  Make the home side the visitors side and make a new beefier home side on the current visitor's side.  I kind of like the latter option because it would make ingress/egress a little bit better for visitors.

[Vott]

1 hour ago, maroontide06 said:

I know West still runs on grass and that's fine, but they could really try to beef up that visitors section.  It needs help in the worst possible way.  Also they could flip it as well.  Make the home side the visitors side and make a new beefier home side on the current visitor's side.  I kind of like the latter option because it would make ingress/egress a little bit better for visitors.

Why not just make a new beefier side on the visitors side? Same thing. LOL

[Merlin]

1 hour ago, maroontide06 said:

I know West still runs on grass and that's fine, but they could really try to beef up that visitors section.  It needs help in the worst possible way.  Also they could flip it as well.  Make the home side the visitors side and make a new beefier home side on the current visitor's side.  I kind of like the latter option because it would make ingress/egress a little bit better for visitors.

They were planning to flip it like you said 5 years ago.  Turf has been talked about even longer.  The booster club had the money to pay for both and had gotten multiple quotes. But the school board blocks all of it. They won’t let west do anything unless northeast and south jones gets the same thing.  And neither has the funds to pay for theirs.  South jones could raise the funds but northeast has zero chance.  A few years back after south jones expanded and upgraded some bleachers and put awning over their baseball stadium some nej and WJ people brought up how could sj do it and not them.  WJ was allowed to add some chair backs and put turf infield on baseball field as a response.  Not sure what nej did.  Sj also got a new fancy stadium entrance that the others did not.  But any mention of expanding football stadium gets shot down.  And the way the current school board is set up NEJ boosters have more votes.  They are even talking about re-districting a community away from WJ and sending kids there to nej supposedly to “balance the student population”.  It would swap about 100 students a year.  The true goal is that the area is a hot spot for talent and the nej boosters want to end wests stranglehold on county football. 

[maroontide06]

20 minutes ago, Vott said:

Why not just make a new beefier side on the visitors side? Same thing. LOL

Well when we went to West Jones for South State in 2023 I had to park in someone's front yard on Lonesome Pines Rd which is where the home side is.  If they want to keep the stands along Lonesome Pines Rd the home side, they need some parking over there.  Maybe buy up some houses or something or even put in parking behind the houses.  Most of the parking at West Jones is over on the other side of the baseball field and it's completely opposite of their home side.  Visitors probably have an easier go of it than the home crowd.

[Vott]

18 minutes ago, maroontide06 said:

Well when we went to West Jones for South State in 2023 I had to park in someone's front yard on Lonesome Pines Rd which is where the home side is.  If they want to keep the stands along Lonesome Pines Rd the home side, they need some parking over there.  Maybe buy up some houses or something or even put in parking behind the houses.  Most of the parking at West Jones is over on the other side of the baseball field and it's completely opposite of their home side.  Visitors probably have an easier go of it than the home crowd.

When I go to road games I try to find the closest spot to where the entrance/exit is in the parking lot. So when the game is over I can be one of the first ones out. I definitely do not mind the long walk to the stadium.

[Merlin]

2 hours ago, maroontide06 said:

Well when we went to West Jones for South State in 2023 I had to park in someone's front yard on Lonesome Pines Rd which is where the home side is.  If they want to keep the stands along Lonesome Pines Rd the home side, they need some parking over there.  Maybe buy up some houses or something or even put in parking behind the houses.  Most of the parking at West Jones is over on the other side of the baseball field and it's completely opposite of their home side.  Visitors probably have an easier go of it than the home crowd.

 

 

There were some rumblings before last year the district was ok’ing to purchase land behind the baseball field that had gone up for sale.  I don’t know if there was any truth or what came of it.  A county bond passed in 2000 to build the new elementary schools, cafeterias at the high schools, performing arts centers and new libraries, cleared a few years back.  There was mention the prior school board had considered another but when the new superintendent came in priorities shifted a bit.  Supposedly this guy is on board with some sweeping facility updates, especially the gyms (2 of 3 have foundation or structural issues) so they will tackle things.  No o e cares if another school gets baseball updates or gym updates first. But don’t dare let mention that one is getting football updates over the other.  
 

As example.  Wests locker room damaged by tornado in 01.  Insurance money was enough to fix it any pay for larger all metal one to be built.  The old one became soccer and visiting teams locker room.  Nej and south got new rooms paid by the county to “keep up”.  But the money for wests did not come from the county so to speak. 
 

I could rant all day on this.

 

 

[Mower Man 63]

On 8/2/2025 at 9:43 PM, maroontide06 said:

Here’s an update at PRC.  Still have to finish turfing the sidelines and finish the painting but it looks to be on target for finishing before the season starts.

Here’s the finished product

[NoWammies]

My only complaint with that one and it’s the only because I love everything else about it but I probably would’ve went with Blue Devils in both endzone cuz PRC being so small looks strange. It would grow on me though. If anybody has ever been to the Duke campus, that Blue Devil and trees in the backdrop definitely give off a Durham vibe. 

[maroontide06]

1 hour ago, NoWammies said:

My only complaint with that one and it’s the only because I love everything else about it but I probably would’ve went with Blue Devils in both endzone cuz PRC being so small looks strange. It would grow on me though. If anybody has ever been to the Duke campus, that Blue Devil and trees in the backdrop definitely give off a Durham vibe. 

They probably had to put PRC in that one end zone because if they had spelled out Pearl River Central in all caps they would have had to make the font skinnier and that probably would’ve looked even weirder. 

[Merlin]

They missed opportunity for blue and white checkerboard pattern in endzones. 

[maroontide06]

@NoWammiesif they were to put the pitchforks in that end zone and do one on either side of PRC and mirror them, that would probably make that end zone look complete without being tacky.  Doing that would incorporate their helmet logo on the field as well.

[maroontide06]

3 minutes ago, Merlin said:

They missed opportunity for blue and white checkerboard pattern in endzones. 

That would definitely be an interesting look, but they were against the clock because the field was still grass at Graduation in May.  I think they came in with the dozers the day after.

[NoWammies]

19 minutes ago, maroontide06 said:

@NoWammiesif they were to put the pitchforks in that end zone and do one on either side of PRC and mirror them, that would probably make that end zone look complete without being tacky.  Doing that would incorporate their helmet logo on the field as well.

I like that idea.