Here’s an idea:
Maybe lower ticket prices to watch high school amateur athletes play football.
$15 to watch a HS state championship game is completely absurd. You can literally watch a professional sporting event for less. 10 years ago it was $7-9. The OHSAA is not hurting for money.
Most states just have one ticket all day you stay as long as you want.
Usually $10 to $14 (Georgia is $23 while NJ is only $9 due to a price mandate by the state association).
States with single game tickets at one site and clear the stadium are (that I know of) :
Nebraska ($8 + 1.40 fee)
Pennsylvania ($8 + 2.00 fee)
South Dakota ($15 cash)
Kentucky
Arkansas
Nebraska plays on the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Parking is paid. Games are aired on public TV throughout the state.
Pennsylvania costs $10 per game this year. In the past they let you use your stub from the early game to get into the night game free. They stopped doing that when tickets went from $7 to $8 (now there's the covid fee because it's all through ticketmaster at Hersheypark, no cash sales). Though parking is free.
Games are 1/7 Thursday and Friday and 12/6 on Saturday. Games are aired free cross the state to anyone with cable on PCN (you can stream for a fee on their site if you don't have cable or out of state. PCN is owned by the cable companies operating in PA and is on basic cable throughout the state. They air every state final in all sports EXCEPT wrestling which Flo gave an offer the piaa couldn't refuse).
South Dakota is odd in that they play at the DakotaDome a few miles north of Nebraska in Vermillion. It's a very small dome (recently increased capacity to 9100).
7 games are split into 6 tickets. Two smallest classes are Thursday morning in one ticket. Then Thursday night, Friday 10, 2 and 7 are individual tickets. And Saturday night is the 11AAA title on its own ticket. Student tickets are $10.
The size of the stadium is why they have to do it since three games can sell more than the stadium can hold. (when I went it was 3 games Thursday and then 2 on Friday and 2 on Saturday with a longer break between games). Parking was free, though. Also games are free on SDPB throughout the state on over the air PBS stations.
Kentucky is $15 for GA/gm once they moved back to UK. The ticket includes your parking cost. Which kind of sucks if you wanted to pile a bunch of people into a car to save on parking. Also you can get all 6 games for $75 if you buy in advance.
Arkansas has afternoon and night games. As does West Virginia on Saturday. Arkansas are $7 and free parking per game plus fee. Games are aired on PBS in the state.
West Virginia does split Saturday. One game at 12 and the other at 7. Tickets are $10 ($6 advance for students) but you can buy the ticket book for all three games for $24).
Every other state I know of has an all day ticket policy (MN, ND, WY, CO, TX, LA, IA, WI, IL, IN, MI, NY, NJ, NH, VT, ME, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, UT, NV, etc).