Joshua Wilson

I put together a long form article articulating how we are getting to Friday's big decision by the FHSAA Board of Directors and weaved things including #WeWantToPlay to political influence. Have a read for yourself here:

No changes to RPI... same as last year.

Story from today's FHSAA Fall Sports Task Force meeting:

I am working on that, but I am also seeing a of schedules still incomplete on MaxPreps which is odd. Usually most will have schedules out. I guess a lot are in wait and see mode to see what the FHSAA decides to do.

Also very possible they have started this program from scratch having built up a middle school program first and then going to a high school program as they rise up through the grades. This seems to be the typical approach in a lot of areas now.

You are going to see a lot of this... traveling allowed in certain zones, no travel outside to other areas. That means a ton of schedules could be up ended. That leads me to this... should I even continue to collect schedules up until something becomes clearer?

I can tell you all this: 1. Tallahassee will not absorb the 4A-8A games (at least not at Gene Cox). 2. That means IMG is not going to happen... FHSAA won't let that happen. 3. No high school school site is going to be used (Gene Cox is not an on-site school site) 4. Best options I see is Orlando City's Exploria Stadium (if they can agree), UCF, FAU or FIU... I don't see them going back to Camping World Stadium. Weekends wouldn't work given bowl games follow that very next weekend (if schedules hold up with COVID), but remember this will be a two-year deal. 5. Don't ever expect the FHSAA to entertain Daytona Beach again until they really improve things and come up with a better plan to handle it. They really thought they could do things like they did on a typical Friday night and it was very evident from what I saw first hand being there. I thought the crowds and games were great, but the scoreboard malfunctions, the lack of cell service and lack of wifi outside of the press box was a major buzz kill. The low quality of food that was served to the press by the host (this is not the FHSAA's call), was horrible. Very bad hot dogs from the concession stand and chips at most and most times they didn't even have enough for the press. FHSAA thought they had a nice site for 4A-8A and it just simply was too much for them to return because the issue weren't going to get fixed.

Sounds like Spruce Creek is going to East Ridge to replace that game... so I like that. That will be a nice matchup for both programs.

As far as I understand some of the games vs. Georgia teams are going to happen no matter what. As I have said it comes down to what each county does... also depends what the FHSAA Fall Sports Task Force recommends to the board of directors and what FLDOE and the Governor ultimately decides.

Yeah I don't see it happening either... if it does, then I will be totally shocked. Will have to message them and ask them about it.

Not a new school in Miami, but they are a Charter Prep school and they are officially fielding a football program. They already have some what of a schedule set to go on their school website for 2020.

Yeah I am every well aware Mulberry went independent... not surprised. Also given the fact they will have to play all their games on the road this year, this is probably not surprising either.

I am in the process of uploading 2020 Schedules to the website. A link that says "Complete" will be located next to each schedule as they are posted and complete. Just note if you see anything that needs changing, please let me know. I know a lot of the Out-of-State games are going to be a mess to know if they will actually happen or not. https://floridahsfootball.com/schedules/

It is all inclusive together and was already in the rules that this would be considered a rules violation.

Right now its going to be hard press to see most of the interstate games actually happen this year. I see very few and those will be limited to our bordering states and that is it. That also hinges on the limitations of travel the counties place on their schools (outside of district games and valid contracts).

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HAVE ALL YOUR 4A PICK IN TOMORROW BY 7 PM ET, REST ON THURSDAY BY 7 PM ET 4A: Booker T. Washington (11-2) vs. Bolles (11-1) 6A: Miami Central (11-3) vs. Escambia (14-0) 8A: Columbus (10-4) vs. Apopka (12-1) 5A: Jones (13-1) vs. Miami Northwestern (12-2) 7A: Edgewater (13-1) vs. St. Thomas Aquinas (13-0)

HAVE ALL YOUR 4A PICK IN TOMORROW BY 7 PM ET, REST ON THURSDAY BY 7 PM ET 4A: Booker T. Washington (11-2) vs. Bolles (11-1) 6A: Miami Central (11-3) vs. Escambia (14-0) 8A: Columbus (10-4) vs. Apopka (12-1) 5A: Jones (13-1) vs. Miami Northwestern (12-2) 7A: Edgewater (13-1) vs. St. Thomas Aquinas (13-0)

This is correct that he did do this! It was an impressive performance seeing it first hand and on the field with Franklin.

OMG.. you are killing me @181pl

I was running a simple update to the boards and apparently because I was a couple of versions behind, the whole update system failed which meant uploading manually to the server via FTP. Well one file got stuck going that route never wanting to update properly no matter what I did so I had to wait until Tech support responded with their help and finally just solved it not long ago. I apologize for anyone trying to access things last night.

POST YOUR 2A PICK BY 7 PM TOMORROW THEN THE REST BY FRIDAY NIGHT AT 7 PM 2A Champagnat Catholic (10-3) vs. Victory Christian (11-1) 3A Florida High (12-1) vs. Chaminade-Madonna (11-2) 1A Blountstown (13-0) vs. Madison County (11-2)

POST YOUR 2A PICK BY 7 PM TOMORROW THEN THE REST BY FRIDAY NIGHT AT 7 PM 2A Champagnat Catholic (10-3) vs. Victory Christian (11-1) 3A Florida High (12-1) vs. Chaminade-Madonna (11-2) 1A Blountstown (13-0) vs. Madison County (11-2)

My picks: Apopka Columbus Armwood Aquinas Escambia Miami Central Jones Northwestern Bolles Lakewood Florida High Chaminade-Madonna University Christian Champagnat Blountstown Madison County