Home field advantage

[sunbunny]

How important is it?

Hunt's the #1 seed going into the second round Friday night against West Carteret. Hunt sucks when it comes to support and people showing up for games. WC is rolling into Hunt with 9 busloads of students and a 160+ marching band unit. Our stadium is going to be completely taken over. No way our band can compete with only 25 members.

The only thing I question is them being invited to perform at the half.

[lightsout]

Football is played by the teams, not the fans. Home field advantage can be big, but usually only on the first defensive series or two, or late in a close game.

At this point, all the teams have seen a good deal of teams and several different situations. Unless you have a bunch of Seahawks fans showing up from Seattle, it probably won't matter if you did have as many or more fans than WC.

WC is good, but Hunt has played ball all year long. Good playing along the line on both sides and solid coaching, from all I have heard. Hunt should win if it is the same Hunt that has been on the field all year. WC is very vanilla. Wouldn't be surprised by an upset, if Hunt's kids are easily intimidated by support from traveling fans. But I just don't see that happening.