County decision for everybody. Safety first concepts. Fence everything in concepts. No kids wondering around without parents concepts. etc., etc. It's a different world.
Times have definitely changed... Pretty soon there will be no Friday Night Lights.
Does seem like they haven't gotten the hint that less and less attendance means less and less dollars and less and less community involvement in their childrens lives. You have to wonder sometimes why elected officials in Cumberland keep getting reelected or their replacements are the exact same kind of people.
Interesting to see that Catoctin and Frederick were replaced with Boonsboro and Clear Spring. Still a very decent schedule for a 1A school. I personally like the challenge of having Frederick on the schedule.
North Hagerstown at FH on Friday
Keyser is not considered a local priority team anymore when it comes to area teams playing each other. So they would no longer get Friday precedence. They used to get Friday precedence when they played both Alco and FH.
Everybody makes the playoffs. FH is good, but you can always count on 6-8 kids having to play both ways. Same with Bridgeport.
All Friday games in Allegany and Garrett County are 6:30. It's the New World Order of Fear and Safety. More fences being built too. Kids must be with an adult at all times, etc.
At this point you almost have to ask what numbers. Except for the Allegany game is there ever more than friends and family at the game...of course that's not counting the band. Without the band it truly would feel like a funeral. It is truly sad that local football has died in terms of fan support. Please don't try and excuse this by talking about the population. I'm not talking the 5,000 or more that were regular back in the day...I'm talking about 1,000 people for a town of 18,000 and basically two high schools doesn't seem unrealistic.
