Armwood and Plant still draw good crowds, especially when they play each other.   Plant's crowds dwindled a little after Coach Weiner left and the team struggled for a year or two, but they seem to be back on track again under Coach Brown and the good crowds have returned.  Apparently, there's a correlation between winning and crowd size. 

What about Armwood and Plant. They're pretty good every year and I'm sure people want to see them play.

I was also there that night for the TBT game as I was the previous week when we beat Lakeland in those same playoffs as well as the following week when we beat Niceville.  That 2014 team was pretty good, but as a heavy run team we ran into the best defensive front I had seen at the HS level in the state championship when we got bullied by STA with Nick Bosa and Co. who were unblockable. 

I went one time. It was when Tampa Bay Tech played Osceola in the playoffs. TBT had Deon Cain as their quarterback. He went on to be a receiver for Clemson and in the NFL.    Osceola bullied them all night. The game wasn’t close. I went on the field after the game and saw someone in media interviewing Cain, and it was an emotional moment for him. His voice was breaking when he was talking. That was his last high school football game. It was all over at that moment.He just looked like he was overcome with emotion realizing he just finished his high school career.    It was a pretty surreal moment to see someone in real time going through that trying to keep it all together.    Even though he knew he was playing college football it was still hard on him. I know it’s hard on all football players who play their last game. especially the 99% who will never play football again in their life. That’s why I don’t understand why coaches don’t play bowl games. Give the seniors who missed the playoffs won last game. 

Everything is relative for me growing up here.  In the mid to late 70's early 80's when we played out at the Silver Spurs arena and our population was a fraction what it is today, we attracted fans in the thousands to big home games.  Today, despite consistently fielding excellent teams year after year the attendance is typically in the hundreds which I consider a paltry number.  I see the work the coaches and players put in so feel they should get alot more support than they do.  The least that can happen in the upcoming year is for all our coaches to be paid better than they have for the value they provide the school system and the kids they impact.