The Florida High School Athletic Association is again searching for a venue for state football championship games after a one-year stay in Daytona Beach turned into a four-day debacle.
The FHSAA quietly severed its three-year contract to hold the five large classification finals at Daytona Stadium through 2021 after last season’s finals were marred by major traffic delays and several facility issues.
“We decided mutually to abandon that site,” FHSAA executive director George Tomyn said in a phone interview with the Sentinel on Friday. “We had a history of going to Daytona in previous years (1989-96) and it had been a fine location for us.