Yes they did!

FHSAA rescinded the reduction to athletic contests in Wednesday's board meeting. The decision was surely in response to a storm of protest on the gender-equity front, embodied in a Title IX lawsuit filed in Jacksonville in June.
"I believe what we did in April was the best thing for the membership then, and given the situation, what we did today was in its best interest now," said FHSAA Board of Directors President Greg Zornes in a press release.
The original intent was to save money for member schools in a collapsing economy, while maintaining a reasonable network of competition. Football, with by far the fewest contests, was understandably left out of the equation, and competitive cheer was exempted as a sop to gender balance. However, as the organization's own participation survey shows, about 36,000 more girls than boys would be impacted by the schedule reductions, an obvious inequity. Now the organization and member schools will be left looking for a new plan to deal with school sports expenses even as school district revenues are crashing. They will have to come up with a more equitable way to cut costs when they come back for Round Two.
See my column in the Chiefland Citizen for more perspective.

Joey and D.J. - The story behind the story

Rivals back together again, a recent Chiefland Citizen sports feature, spotlights Chiefland's Joey Harris and Williston's D.J. Bowers. Harris is now at Florida International University playing football, and Bowers is at Santa Fe College in Gainesville. Longtime friends, former teammates and rivals on AAU and school baseball teams, both returned to Gainesville for the summer to reunite and rekindle their hopes of playing next-level baseball.
Harris and Bowers brought a selection of their old uniforms to the interview (conducted while Bowers was playing baseball for the Gainesville Braves), donning their old Williston Stingers threads (Bowers wore 8, Harris 99) and Williston and Chiefland unis. Harris had to borrow Chiefland head coach Kyle Parnell's number 44 jersey because the player who inherited his suit was out of town that weekend.
Shown in this pic with Bowers and Harris is Bowers' dad, Levy County Sheriff's Deputy Rob Bowers, who coached the pair on the Stingers.