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Congrats Venice Indians, 8A State Champs! They’re from Florida’s west coast, play in Florida’s largest classification, but draw from a retirement community town with a population of only 25,167.

Venice cruised through the payoffs, beating Columbus last week that draws from a population of 454,279 and Apopka in the championship game that draws from 51,800.

HS Football is alive and well in ALL of Florida.

Dade / Broward and the mega population centers aren't only what makes this the best and highest recruited football state. Florida is nowhere near the size of California or Texas, nor do we have close to the school populations they do, yet this STATE is considered the best. The best teams in college football understand that. Its why Miami needs to recruit the rest of the state better.
 
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Silver King said:
Congrats Venice Indians, 8A State Champs! They’re from Florida’s west coast, play in Florida’s largest classification, but draw from a retirement community town with a population of only 25,167.

Venice cruised through the payoffs, beating Columbus last week that draws from a population of 454,279 and Apopka in the championship game that draws from 51,800.

HS Football is alive and well in ALL of Florida.

Dade / Broward and the mega population centers aren't only what makes this the best and highest recruited football state. Florida is nowhere near the size of California or Texas, nor do we have close to the school populations they do, yet this STATE is considered the best. The best teams in college football understand that. Its why Miami needs to recruit the rest of the state better.
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This dude isn’t even a low key south Florida hater anymore it’s just obvious.
 
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Silver King said:
Congrats Venice Indians, 8A State Champs! They’re from Florida’s west coast, play in Florida’s largest classification, but draw from a retirement community town with a population of only 25,167.

Venice cruised through the payoffs, beating Columbus last week that draws from a population of 454,279 and Apopka in the championship game that draws from 51,800.

HS Football is alive and well in ALL of Florida.

Dade / Broward and the mega population centers aren't only what makes this the best and highest recruited football state. Florida is nowhere near the size of California or Texas, nor do we have close to the school populations they do, yet this STATE is considered the best. The best teams in college football understand that. Its why Miami needs to recruit the rest of the state better.
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Well CA has 39 million, Texas 29 million and Fl 21 million. The 3 largest states have the best Hs football, no surprise. We live in Tx and FL. The disparity in the attendance at the state championship games is surprising, 40,900 in Tx vs 7,000 in Fl. Watched all the title games in Fl and Tx, great football.
 
SayWhat said:
I just can't look at STA and say congrats. Mercenary team and it's a given that they should win yearly.

They should be classified like IMG. You can play locally, but you're out of state championship eligibility.
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Then so are Jesuit, AH, CG, TC, MNW, MC, Cham, Armwood, Lakeland, Plant, Venice, Cocoa, etc. The real issue is having 8 divisions separated by population size when there are competitive teams in every classification. The gaps between classification champions are smaller than the gaps within classifications.
 
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Nobody on this site adores S.Fl Football like I have for 40+ yrs....but there has to be a mix. Unbelievable talent all over the country for the last 35+ yrs. Of course Dade/Broward and the rest of S. Fl have been a stronghold for UM since Howard...But Howard, and JJ to an even Greater extent, knew that there was a Plethora of Grade A kids all over the U.S, and pretty much slayed it outta State as well throughout the yrs. Butch took it to an entirely different level.....
 
rok said:
Remember when these games were on tv?

smh
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NFHS Network is straight garbage, you're better off taking that $10.99 they charge you and flushing it down the commode.

Georgia does a 100X better job of broadcasting their HSFB games than Florida.
 
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Silver King said:
Congrats Venice Indians, 8A State Champs! They’re from Florida’s west coast, play in Florida’s largest classification, but draw from a retirement community town with a population of only 25,167.

Venice cruised through the payoffs, beating Columbus last week that draws from a population of 454,279 and Apopka in the championship game that draws from 51,800.

HS Football is alive and well in ALL of Florida.

Dade / Broward and the mega population centers aren't only what makes this the best and highest recruited football state. Florida is nowhere near the size of California or Texas, nor do we have close to the school populations they do, yet this STATE is considered the best. The best teams in college football understand that. Its why Miami needs to recruit the rest of the state better.
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You bring valid points, You still sound like you need a hug. How long have you been resentful of South Florida Football ?
 
Silver King said:
Congrats Venice Indians, 8A State Champs! They’re from Florida’s west coast, play in Florida’s largest classification, but draw from a retirement community town with a population of only 25,167.

Venice cruised through the payoffs, beating Columbus last week that draws from a population of 454,279 and Apopka in the championship game that draws from 51,800.

HS Football is alive and well in ALL of Florida.

Dade / Broward and the mega population centers aren't only what makes this the best and highest recruited football state. Florida is nowhere near the size of California or Texas, nor do we have close to the school populations they do, yet this STATE is considered the best. The best teams in college football understand that. Its why Miami needs to recruit the rest of the state better.
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Columbus draws from what?.

Venice is one of my fav low key programs...but All boys Catholic school in Miami aint drawing from what you think it is
 
gogeta4 said:
Columbus draws from what?.

Venice is one of my fav low key programs...but All boys Catholic school in Miami aint drawing from what you think it is
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I'm talking the potential of available athletes for a private religious school in a city of that population (STA seems to draw ok), and with a younger average family age (meaning more working families with a much larger high school age population) that simply dwarfs the potential population of athletes to draw from that Venice, with its retiree population, has.

Miami is like most cities; the very best athletes flock (or are street brokered) to a small group of schools that have the best chance to win it all, and those stay pretty consistent. A lot of the other schools aren't anything special, and those stay pretty consistent too.
 
Silver King said:
I'm talking the potential of available athletes for a private religious school in a city of that population (STA seems to draw ok), and with a younger average family age (meaning more working families with a much larger high school age population) that simply dwarfs the potential population of athletes to draw from that Venice, with its retiree population, has.

Miami is like most cities; the very best athletes flock (or are street brokered) to a small group of schools that have the best chance to win it all, and those stay pretty consistent. A lot of the other schools aren't anything special, and those stay pretty consistent too.
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I looked at the Census numbers for Florida and for South Florida, and it showed a big shift in under 18, working class and African Americans over the last ten years. I will be curious to see what happens over the next ten years. Miami-Dade has a lack of affordable housing and gentrification is rising. Not as many working class black students are in Miami today as there used to be just ten years ago. Palm beach and Broward are still ok, but you see Texas has a growing working class and African American population.

I love South Florida football and I hope demographics don‘t shrink our talent pool
 
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