RP-I understand what you are saying. Here are a couple of quotes that got me going:
TX just takes High school football much more seriously than any other State.
TX 5A is run like a college program.
The head coaches do not teach a class. They focus 100% on football year round. They are hired to win football games period. Lose and you are fired along with your Offensive and Defensive coordinators and possibly your whole staff.
When the TX High school playoffs comes around - if your team makes it - it is absolute hysteria in that community.
People talk about the pressure put on coaches at say, Massillon and Eds and I chuckle because it is like that at every school down here. Lose and you have to face the whole town.
While the above is true to an extent in many towns, it is not in many others. When was the last time that the Carrolton FB schools were good in football. Have people started a drive to have Eddy Peach removed? Take the entire DISD. Why are they good ar basketball, but not football? Does anyone really care at all? For that matter throw in the FWISD. What about the Irving schools.
Bordertown did an analysis that showed the paid attendance for the playoffs was an average of 2,233 people. That number is probably a little low, but I do think it shows that not every town has "hysteria" come playoff time.
The GP AD said their $32K take from the triple header was more than double the take from the bidistrict game the week before. Taking just the numbers given and that each game "had "14,666 paid attendance, is it safe to assume that the weeks game before w/SGP-Bowie with schools that have a combined attendance of over six thousand students had just over that amount in attendance?
Is that the example of those communities wrapped up in playoff hysteria?
I love TX HS football. I just don't see the need to portray something that it is not. I think the above quotes do that.
If that was not the intent my bad.
You brought up indoor practice facilities/turf/etc.
There certainly are many schools with those amenities. Do you realize for every school that has them, that there are probably 10 and more likely 20-50 schools in the state that does not?
Your post would not indicate that you do. Maybe I am wrong.
Then you posted that since I had not been to a WL game in ten years that my credibility was shot. I think you addressed that by stating you did not undertstand the comment. OK
Do this make more sense?