JDHoss

Lacrosse and soccer (at the high school level) are winter sports down here, so they really shouldn't factor in. I'll give you baseball, as it's a year round sport and the local sports complexes have tons of baseball fields, with games going on all year. I think one thing that factors into it (as tornado99 pointed out) is that at the better programs, you might only see 50-60 players on a roster with an enrollment of 3K+, but every one of those players look like they belong on a football field. It's probably that some of these schools cut players. In addition, July workouts/7 on 7 and August practices are just brutal here in South Florida with the heat and humidity. I can walk outside at 9 AM and it's like opening an oven door. Still, you'll see some schools with enrollments between 1500 and 2000 that will have less than 40 players.

Declining enrollments, more entertainment options are just two of the driving factors. Sometimes, it's not even a matter of enrollment. Down here in South Florida, there are schools with enrollments of 3K+ that have 40-60 players on their roster. The game I went to last night, Treasure Coast (2,967 enrollment) had 54 players and Sanford Seminole (4,062 enrollment) had 62.

Treasure Coast 14 Seminole 9 Final Great game that went to the wire.

Treasure Coast 14 Seminole 9 5:13 left

Treasure Coast 14 Sanford Seminole 2 Half

Treasure Coast 7 Sanford Seminole 0 Late first

#3 (Class 4M) Sanford Seminole vs #3 (Class 4S) Treasure Coast in Port St Lucie tonight. Currently in a lightning delay and hopefully will start around 8:00.

Sebastian River 15 South Fork 7 Final

Sebastian River 15 South Fork 7 5:50 4th

Last night at Vero Beach in a game ppd from Friday because of a COVID outbreak at Palm Beach Gardens HS, it was... Vero Beach 26 Palm Beach Gardens 11 The highlight of the game was when a kid from PBGHS picked up a Vero fumble on the bounce around the PBHHS 40 and headed towards the end zone. Around the Vero 30, he slowed down and looked like he wasn't sure he should be running that way, and circled back around for maybe 10 yards until he saw his coaches and teammates going nuts screaming for him to turn back. He turned back around and was still able to weave his way through the confusion for a TD after running probably 100+ yards for a 60 yard return. As an added bonus for PBGHS, they turn around and play Palm Beach Dwyer on Saturday night on 2 days rest while Vero has an open date anyway.... Tonight, we're in Stuart to watch South Fork host Sebastian River. It was a sweltering 91° at kickoff with no breeze out here in the swamps of western Martin County. Sebastian River 15 South Fork 0 Half The SF center has the yips and I've lost count of how many snaps he's either air mailed or rolled back to the QB. It's at least 5, and all have resulted in big losses and one in a safety.

A vintage Union team, maybe like the 2017 (IIRC) team, would win this game by multiple scores. This Union team isn't in the same universe as that one, but might be able to play within a couple of TD if they play well and don't self destruct. The decided advantage with the home crowd should help. I saw where Vegas set the over/under for SHHS attendance at 100. I took the under...

Treasure Coast 66 Tampa Jesuit 28 Final

Treasure Coast 59 Tampa Jesuit 21 Running clock late 3rd, and we're heading home.

Treasure Coast 53 Tampa Jesuit 21 5:32 3rd Jesuit looks gassed

Treasure Coast 45 Tampa Jesuit 21 10:30 3rd 50 yard TD out of the single wing and Jesuit has no answer. They're probably averaging 15+ YPC.

Treasure Coast 38 Tampa Jesuit 21 11:47 3rd TC with a 65 yard double handoff out of the single wing.

Treasure Coast 32 Tampa Jesuit 21 Half Jesuit has a really nice sophomore QB who threw an 80 yard TD with 20 seconds to go in the half.

Treasure Coast 32 Tampa Jesuit 15 5:48 2nd

Treasure Coast 26 Tampa Jesuit 15 End of a wild 1st quarter

Treasure Coast 20 Tampa Jesuit 15 4:39 1st

Tampa Jesuit 15 Treasure Coast 12 6:03 1st These teams played a 14-13 game in Tampa last year.

Treasure Coat 12 Tampa Jesuit 7 6:32 1st TC throwing several times out of their single wing.

Tampa Jesuit 7 Treasure Coast 6 10:15 1st

In Port St Lucie... Tampa Jesuit 7 Treasure Coast 0 10:59 1st Kickoff temp is 84 with a nice breeze

In Fort Pierce tonight... Fort Pierce Westwood 18 Stuart South Fork 16 South Fork missed a FG to take the lead with under a minute to go. Tomorrow night is Tampa Jesuit at Treasure Coast, and we get a rare Wednesday night game next week with Palm Beach Gardens & Vero Beach, which was postponed tomorrow night because of a COVID outbreak at PBGHS. Hopefully, next week will deliver 3 games for us.