10 Miami Dade teams opted to go independent and play each other
Goleman
Hialeah Gardens
Varela
Coral Park
Westland Hialeah
Reagan
Sunset
HML
Krop
Not sure of 10th
Village Academy’s issue is being a small small most of their talent transfers to Atlantic. They’ve had also had a revolving door of coaches the last 3 years after Hanna stepped down.
HML’s population isn’t as Hispanic as both Westland or Varela. I watched their kickoff classic and they had a decent amount of athletes. I believe the challenge is the district and kids knowing regardless the talent gap is too large.
Westland is almost all Cuban kids with no prior football experience. In a Miami Herald article last year the new head coach (4th in 4 years) talked about having to teach kids how to wear shoulder pads. Then the program was growing from having 10-15 kids at practice under previous coaches.
8-6 Hialeah Gardens at the end of the first half. Hialeah Gardens hit a long pass to setup their score, otherwise hasn't done a ton on offense. Sunset scored to end the half, nice runs by RB to set up the score.