Attendance

[gatorman-uf]

19 minutes ago, Cat_Scratch said:

Spectrum showing the games cut down on the attendance,  and I was surprised it was that much.

Not everyone has Spectrum, so for example, I was unable to watch last night's game on TV. I wasn't willing to spend $10 to stream it. I think it hurts attendance but only if the weather is damp, cold. I doubt fans from schools like Raines or Cocoa were watching on TV, when the drive isn't too long to the stadium. 

TV showing probably hurts the motivation of the casual fan of high school football from showing up rather than the fan of the school.

[Cat_Scratch]

I know the tickets allotted to Cocoa were sold out by 9 Tuesday morning.

My estimation was between 4000 and 4500. It could easily have been more since I counted 250 and then rows of 250 and added them all together for a guess. Miami Northwestern was there for the first half and a lot of people walking around and I didn't include those.

[941football]

How many fans does 1 section fill ? Venice sold the Home  reserved side out days ago and only general was available. Not sure if that is a lot of people or not. 

[SportsNut25]

2016 vs. 2017 Comparisons

1A - 3870 / 3717 (-153)
2A - 1373 / 1287 (-86)
3A - 2292 / --
4A - 3856 / 4276 (+420)
5A - 3119 / 4143 (+1024)
6A - 6715 / 5805 (-910)
7A - 4735 / --
8A - 7122 / --
ALL - 33,082 / 19,228

[MuckCityChamp]

Nortwestern’s side was flooded. Folks begged for them to either open an end zone or mid level I which the officials refused. It was really bunched up there. 

[muckboy561]

8A state game will be packed due to Dr. Phillips being in Orlando

[DarterBlue2]

15 minutes ago, muckboy561 said:

8A state game will be packed due to Dr. Phillips being in Orlando

It will be a good crowd. But DP is not the biggest draw in Orlando. I think MNW last night brought a crowd at least as large as Phillips will bring. 

[gatorman-uf]

Armwood's side was really disappointing as i sat on the MNW, I don't understand.  An hour and 25 minute drive, an undefeated team, and a history of going to state. They filled maybe 2 sections

[Viperx]

12 hours ago, SportsNut25 said:

2016 vs. 2017 Comparisons

1A - 3870 / 3717 (-153)
2A - 1373 / 1287 (-86)
3A - 2292 / --
4A - 3856 / 4276 (+420)
5A - 3119 / 4143 (+1024)
6A - 6715 / 5805 (-910)
7A - 4735 / --
8A - 7122 / --
ALL - 33,082 / 19,228

Looks like Attendance hasn't took up comparing to last season, and will be about the same or lower for this season.

[SportsNut25]

2016 vs. 2017 Comparisons

1A = 3870 / 3717 (-153)
2A = 1373 / 1287 (-86)
3A = 2292 / 1355 (-937)
4A = 3856 / 4276 (+420)
5A = 3119 / 4143 (+1024)
6A = 6715 / 5805 (-910)
7A = 4735 / 4236 (-499)
8A = 7122 / --
ALL = 33,082 / 24,819

[badbird]

23 minutes ago, SportsNut25 said:

2016 vs. 2017 Comparisons

1A = 3870 / 3717 (-153)
2A = 1373 / 1287 (-86)
3A = 2292 / 1355 (-937)
4A = 3856 / 4276 (+420)
5A = 3119 / 4143 (+1024)
6A = 6715 / 5805 (-910)
7A = 4735 / 4236 (-499)
8A = 7122 / --
ALL = 33,082 / 24,819

pathetic that Florida doesn't support high school football more

[Viperx]

1 minute ago, badbird said:

pathetic that Florida doesn't support high school football more

Not only it is pathetic, it's sad, and shows how the fhsaa has done little to improve on the attendance issue. 

[OldSchoolLion]

In Texas, not unusual to get 30,000-40,000 attending ONE of the state final games.  And you know with a state the size of Texas, some of those fans have a long way to travel to get to Dallas.  

[Zoe Boy]

I think the last time we had big crowds was when the championship games were in south fla... 

[DisabledAccount]

2 minutes ago, Zoe Boy said:

I think the last time we had big crowds was when the championship games were in south fla... 

Ones in Gainesville had good crowds too

[941football]

Venice side was packed to only have 4200 in total attendance. 

[SportsNut25]

34 minutes ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

Ones in Gainesville had good crowds too

Gainesville had worse crowds than Orlando 

[SportsNut25]

38 minutes ago, Zoe Boy said:

I think the last time we had big crowds was when the championship games were in south fla... 

Yup. All classes combined in Miami for 2006 season was 56,453 which is an FHSAA combined classification record. (Have to note that Orlando in 2007 did draw 52,750 which is it's lone good year.) 

[SportsNut25]

Here are the yearly attendance numbers from 2007-2017 when the state championships have been held in Orlando. 

2007 = 52,750 (-3,703 moving to ORL from MIA)
2008 = 36,087 (-16,663)
2009 = 33,008 (-3,079)
2010 = 33,653 (+645)
2011 = 27,164 (-6,489)
2012 = 29,953 (+2789)
2013 = 25,603 (-4,350)
2014 = 28,062 (+2,459)
2015 = 29,078 (+1,016)
2016 = 33,082 (+4,004)
2017 =  30,719 (-2363)

[SportsNut25]

2016 vs. 2017 Comparisons

1A = 3870 / 3717 (-153)
2A = 1373 / 1287 (-86)
3A = 2292 / 1355 (-937)
4A = 3856 / 4276 (+420)
5A = 3119 / 4143 (+1024)
6A = 6715 / 5805 (-910)
7A = 4735 / 4236 (-499)
8A = 7122 / 5900 (-1222)
ALL = 33,082 / 30,719 (-2363)

[MC Rockets]

No surprised at all. The last time Armwood traveled well was in 2011. 

[954gator]

19 hours ago, ColumbiaHighFan2017class said:

Ones in Gainesville had good crowds too

Honestly, I think Gainesville was the best spot.   

[DisabledAccount]

1 minute ago, 954gator said:

Honestly, I think Gainesville was the best spot.   

If it was i would go every year 

[SportsNut25]

37 minutes ago, 954gator said:

Honestly, I think Gainesville was the best spot.   

Maybe for playing field, but not for attendance. 

If talking attendance, somewhere in South Florida seems to be the most ideal setting -- the only problem is where in South Florida. 

[DisabledAccount]

2 minutes ago, SportsNut25 said:

Maybe for playing field, but not for attendance. 

If talking attendance, somewhere in South Florida seems to be the most ideal setting -- the only problem is where in South Florida. 

Why put it in south Florida where you will have panhandle teams traveling 10 hours for south Florida teams having it next door

 

The idea is for state finals to be centralized location 

 

And technically the teams in the north like niceville, madison, St Augustine for example bring better crowds than most south Florida teams so idealy moving it to north would increase attendence but honestly it isn't where it is but who goes that determines attendence 

 

Years where niceville, st Augustine and heck even last time Columbia went is when you get high numbers 

 

You can move to south Florida but attendence won't improve if the  teams with established fan bases don't make it