I agree with you on the attendance piece but I feel like if you love your team/high school football, you’ll go anywhere regardless.
What’s a huge dealbreaker for me are these horrid start times for football and these sessions for the basketball state championships. Who the hell is coming to a game at 11:30 (11 to get a good seat) and staying for another game at 5 o’clock? I get you can leave and come back but that’s just an inconvenience to the fans and a huge drawback for attendance. The sessions for basketball are down right robbery and ridiculous. No other state does this dumb sh!t but the VHSL. I was in Hampton last March to watch Moncan’s girls and Varina’s boys. After Monacan played Hampton, we emptied the gym just to go stand in a long ass line (over 900 people waiting outside) to watch Varina play Hampton’s boys. They don’t care about the kids or you, they just want your $.