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Roughly 15 minutes remain before kickoff of the Florida Sentinel Heritage Classic (aka Blake-Middleton game) and it appears about 6,000 fans are shoehorned into Raymond James Stadium.

Which means around 59,000 seats are empty.

I've said it before in print, and I'll say it again here in cyberspace: Pro stadiums are no place for high school games. Right now, RayJay seems cavernous, and a game that should be generating enough electricity to put TECO out of business is shorting out due to a lack of intimacy.

Based on the size of the crowd right now, you can't tell me a college soccer stadium (i.e. USF), with some temporary bleachers thrown in, couldn't accommodate this game. Imagine the noise, the buzz of a cozier setting. It would be crazy.

And it sure beats cavernous.