How big is HS football in TEXAS

[Lions84]

http://highschoolsportsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/05/94-days-away-attendance-battle-uil-title-games-vs-fbs-programs.html/

State title games are larger than many college avg attendance.

[Valleysports]

Bigger than anything a Hillbilly can imagine!

[Lions84]

It been wild after growing up in the Delta to see stadiums that would make any of the old AIC schools cry to have.

[Valleysports]

Lion, I grew up and played my HS Ball in Tyler's Rose Stadium.  Of course away games were all over - Longview, Skyline, Cedar Hill, Odessa, ....  Then I played my college ball at one of those Old AIC schools..   .   But I'm thankful Arkansas has it's DII Programs - possibly one of the best DII States in the Country.

[Texarkana_Piggie]

high school football in texas is not a sport....it's a religion.

[Lions84]

Lion, I grew up and played my HS Ball in Tyler's Rose Stadium.  Of course away games were all over - Longview, Skyline, Cedar Hill, Odessa, ....  Then I played my college ball at one of those Old AIC schools..   .   But I'm thankful Arkansas has it's DII Programs - possibly one of the best DII States in the Country.

I miss the Old AIC.  But we got HS fields that would hold all of Pine Bluff.

[Texarkana_Piggie]

we were in dallas a few years ago.  we drove by one stadium.  i said "i wonder what college that is for?"  it was a high school stadium.  i was thinking it was like a UCA or Henderson sized college stadium.  nope.

[sevenof400]

we were in dallas a few years ago.  we drove by one stadium.  i said "i wonder what college that is for?"  it was a high school stadium.  i was thinking it was like a UCA or Henderson sized college stadium.  nope.

I've seen those as well.  I do have to wonder if their commitment to athletics dwarfs that to academics.   

[Valleysports]

Ha ha - ha ha - think of the irony in that.  Posted on an Arkansas forum. 

[Lions84]

They are some thing to behold .

[sixthman]

I know a guy who went to school at Odessa Permian. He talked about Friday home games...unreal.

[Valleysports]

I played the mojo.

[Lions84]

MOJO is a Legendary Program and the Team behind Friday Night Lights and an older book MOJO Majic.

[Lions84]

Our HS Stadium will hold a little over 2,000 but we will be expanding with the next bond package.

[Longfellow]

I always wished I could've gone to one of those schools, just so I could've been a part of that atmosphere every Friday night. Just wasn't the same at Ola

[Lions84]

I always wished I could've gone to one of those schools, just so I could've been a part of that atmosphere every Friday night. Just wasn't the same at Ola

It wild to walk into one of them even after living in TX for over 20 years.

[Longfellow]

Closest I ever got to that atmosphere was watching a game at Stillwater High School in Oklahoma. It only seats 6,000 but it's bigger than anywhere else I've ever been

[Lions84]

Closest I ever got to that atmosphere was watching a game at Stillwater High School in Oklahoma. It only seats 6,000 but it's bigger than anywhere else I've ever been

Yep it is wild when You grow up in a small school that had less than 800 folks at a game.

[Legend]

If anyone wants to see a big game try watching the Tulsa Union -Jenks game. The one I went to had 42,000 people packed into the stadium at Tulsa University. Those games draw more people than the Tulsa University home games.

[Lions84]

If anyone wants to see a big game try watching the Tulsa Union -Jenks game. The one I went to had 42,000 people packed into the stadium at Tulsa University. Those games draw more people than the Tulsa University home games.

Yea or the State Finals here in Texas which will be in Houston if I remember correctly since there was a schedule conflict with the NFL on using Jerrys World again .

[Legend]

I played in a softball tournament in Mansfield TX. How do they work it all out that 2 or 3 teams share a field or is it just two.. I heard thats what they do in the Mansfield school district