It’s the same thing. Taxes are higher and they charge $1,500 for out of zone students. So if you don’t live in the boundary of the school, you have to pay $1,500 for your student not just athlete to go there. Thats pretty smart and probably limits some transfers a little bit.    My son goes to a school top 10 in the state in academics and the stadium is outrageous. Looks way better than any stadium I ever been to in Florida. And you can see the tax money getting put back into the school and community. Roads are always paved. Never a pot hole. Never litter on the side of the road. Etc 

I moved to Tennessee and some of these stadiums look like small colleges. We went to a high school stadium that had 2 level and 4 floors of elevators to get to the top. At a high school stadium!    imagine that. You need an elevator to get to the top seats and you tell the people you need floor 4 when they press the button for floor 3!!!!!!

You sound like you read a million words into my comments that were not there. Your preconeived notions caused you to misinterpret my remarks. In other words, you are a person amd this is a day ending in 'Y'.

Yeah lack of community identity is probably the single biggest issue here in FL.  You might have 10+ schools within a few miles of each other in any metro area.  Unless your kid is a student at that school, there's no community bonding. 

Having lived in Texas for 5 years, I can attest that there are some meaningful differences from Florida.  To begin with, property taxes are significantly higher, so there is more money available for public school kinds of things.  My wife's pay and benefits as a public-school teacher there were very good.  Some would argue that you get what you pay for. In terms of football culture, it is definitely a different level in terms of community support.  In larger cities, a school district may have 8-12 high schools, but every high school does not have its own stadium.  The school district may have 2-3 multi-use stadiums seating 10-15,000 and shared on Thursday-Saturday nights.  Attendance for a regular season game may be 8-10,000, and I attended one regional playoff game in the University of Texas stadium with 40,000 in attendance.  In small communities with one high school, the sky is the limit with what financial resources that particular community might have.  The bands, dance teams, and cheerleaders dwarf in size what I have seen in Florida.   I will say that in the panhandle, I have seen excellent game-day atmospheres at Niceville, Choctaw, Crestview, Pace, Tate, and Navarre.  I think this is because these are primarily "one community, one high school" types of settings.  On a larger level, you cannot just infuse "culture" into a state such as Florida by waving a magic wand.  I'm afraid I don't have the single answer to improve the status of high school football in Florida.