BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio - A new football stadium for Brookfield High School might become a reality. School Board members have been discussing the possibility of converting the soccer field behind the K- 12 schools to also be able to hold home football games. 

“There's a lot, a million benefits to this so we're excited if it happens," Randy Clark, the Brookfield High School Head Football coach said. 

The team currently holds all its home games at George A. Nichols Field on Judson Street. It’s more than 50 years old. Coach Clark said the field conditions are great for his players. However, the press box, restrooms and stands are deteriorating. 

“As me being a maintenance supervisor here … my opinion, it ain't worth throwing one dollar in it down there,” Clark said. 

The current field is also far from the high school. For every home game, the players suit up at the high school, get loaded onto a bus and drive a mile and a half to the stadium.

“It's just like playing all away games when you come down to the transportation part of it … it's just that you have more opportunities for kids to forget stuff,” Coach Clark said. “It's kind of a pain.”

Coach Clark said getting the 35 to 45 kids on the bus isn’t difficult but getting all the extra equipment, cameras and supplies from the athletic train staff is.

Coach Clark said some players want to stay at the current field because it's where their father or their grandfather played. But other players, and Coach Clark support moving closer to the high school so the Friday night lights can feel more like a home game. 

“I’m a die hard Brookfield person. I grew up here, my whole family played down [at George A. Nicholas Field],” Coach Clark said. “There's a lot of history down there but it’s, it’s time.”

This isn’t the first time the school has had issues with the field. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights found that seating, restrooms, walkway, signs and parking at the football stadium were not compliant with regulations for handicap accessibility. A community group called “Save Our Stadium” raised funds to bring the field back up to code. A $50,000 donation from the Cafaro Foundation also contributed to a multi-phase plan to take out bleachers and put in handicap accessible seating. 

At the time, the group told 21 News that improvements would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and a new facility would be more than a million.

It is not clear what the current plans to merge the soccer stadium and the football stadium would cost. The school board approved an architect to draw up plans for the new stadium and are expected to discuss those more at their regular meeting on March 20 at 6:30p.m.