How difficult will it be for Rice to prepare for us?

[Pony Soup]

I CANT WAIT

[stangdad 40]

62,000 or 30,000 either one there both bigger crowds than he'll see at most games at smu for a while

[PK]

JJ said BLM has played in big games, even said he played in front of 62,000 before, I'd like to know where? Attendance for a state championship game is around 30,000.

December 2007 Alamodome in San Antonio Class 5A Division II Championship game. I could not find verification of attendance. Game was televised on Fox Sports Net.

[PK]

that 62,000 figure is a bunch of BS. No Texas High School Game in History has had more than about 50,000(the famous HP v. Plano game in McIllhenny's Senior year was one of the highest). This year they had all the official (not Big School) State Championships played at a single site in San Antonio so that would be a combined number for all the games. I'd be surprised if more than 30,000 at one game.

I don't know if these stats are current though the end of 2007 or not.

ALL-TIME HIGHEST ATTENDANCE

Texas High School Football Playoff Games

Attendance is not an official statistic kept at Texas
high school football playoff games, so state records are incomplete.

Attendance for these 10 games are among the highest on record in state history:

Attendance Game Site Year
49,953 Plano vs. Port Neches-Groves Texas Stadium 1977*
46,339 Southlake Carroll vs. Euless Trinity Texas Stadium 2006
45,790 Highland Park vs. Waco Cotton Bowl 1945*
45,000 Houston Washington vs. Galveston Rice Stadium 1968
45,000 Dallas Adams vs. Richardson Cotton Bowl 1967
39,102 Garland vs. Katy Astrodome 1999*
39,102 Stephenville vs. Port Neches-Groves Astrodome 1999*
38,570 Port Neches-Groves vs. Houston Kashmere Astrodome 1977
38,374 Plano vs. Highland Park Texas Stadium 1980
38,000 Odessa vs. San Antonio Jefferson Memorial Stadium (Austin) 1946
36,000 Fort Bend Willowridge vs. Houston Yates Rice Stadium 1988

*state championship game

http://www.txprepsfootball.com/history.html

[chillinfool]

"He's played in a lot of big games before," Jones said. "In high school, he played in front of (about) 62,000 in San Antonio."

Maybe that's what happened, JJ views BLM through "rose colored" glasses! 30,000 fans turns into 62,000 with JJ's math, a barely over 50% high school completion percentage turns into 100%, 9 completions a game is 18, etc.

The truly impressive stat about BLM is TD/Int ratio, 34/4 or something like that. BUT, Katy was a run first team, and most defenses played 8 in the box with the recievers man-to-man, so I still think the jury is still out on what a great high school QB he was, he definantly didn't put up Riley Dodge type numbers.

[RednBlue11]

it should be harder considering they have no idea what BLM will preform like in a game, but im not counting on them stopping us on D much anyway

[George S. Patton]

We're arguing over an attendance figure? WTF