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Starmount at North Iredell

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While I am hoping North Iredell has a really good game, they need it as a team, school and community, Starmount will almost certainly win this game.
The problem for North is: there is no Community. Every other team in Iredell has a "Community". Even West Iredell is close enough to Statesville to be claimed, and they have the Celeste Hinkle community to call their own.

Olin is only a rural post office that no one can find. Harmony is about a hundred miles away and Union Grove (about 10 miles) is not really a "community" in a town sense. Central is only a sign post on Hwy 115. And the Cool Spring community might as well be in Davie or Rowan County.

It is very hard for North Iredell HS to build a sense of "community" because they are the definition of "a rural school".
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East Surry @ Mount Airy

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I am not sure what the score will be, 14 to 7, 60 to 12, I mean who knows? These are two teams of 15-16-17 year great kids.

Here is what I do know: OMG where did the week go? It seems like just day before yesterday we were at North Surry tailgating.
Tonight is JV night, Tomorrow is Varsity game day. Time just flies by. Can not wait for it to get here and then it is gone. Memories, good or bad, is what is left.

I sure hope both teams come out ready to play, play hard, no one gets hurt, everyone holds their head up at the end of the game.
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Butler at Richmond

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mpj2k8 said:
The coaches were unprepared for sure. I heard they aren’t as talented as anticipated. Some talent left when Hales retired, some left because of Ferebee’s coaching style and clash then they lost some great players due to graduation. They had some guys play both ways. It will definitely be difficult year.
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Know this staff. Think it's a great staff and they are typically very well prepared. So think saying they were unprepared is a bit harsh. The gameplan may not have worked but they were prepared.

Agree with the talent leaving and not being as good as anticipated. Butler is not getting the incoming talent in the 9th grade that they used to

Lastly this should be somewhat expected. When you don't hire the coach that the players want and it's a big culture change you can get shock. Liken it to changing fish water in a tank. You can put brand new pure clean filtered treated water in a tank and still kill fish. Nothing wrong with the water it just changes the environment. vs. putting pure water and mixing it with some of the old water THEN putting it in the tank. You get a more gradual and better result. Sorry for the fish water change analogy but it fits perfectly. Long term a sudden change is better but risk losing players, vs. retaining some old staff/cultures may help you short term but muddy waters long term. Butler choose sudden change. They'll be ok long term
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Soccer HS Boys soccer

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Metro 4A
SW Guilford 7 Wheatmore 1

Central Piedmont 4A
MT Tabor 4 Elkin 1
Glenn 4 Oak Grove 2
Reagan 1 WS Christian 2
Salisbury 2 Davie Co 0
RJ Reynolds 1 Bishop Mcguiness 0

Central 3A
Orange 6 Eno River 1
Morehead 3 E Alamance 1
Cedar Ridge 1 N Durham 1
Person 2 Roxboro Community 0

Mid-Piedmont 3A
Montgomery Central 2 Piedmont 1

Mid-Carolina 1A/2A
Northwood 3 N Moore 2
W Alamance 2 Seaforth 0
William 2 SE Alamance 0

Piedmont Athletic 1A/2A
W Stokes 3 Randleman 1

Northwest 1A
Starmount 7 N Wilkes 2
Alleghany 7 Mitchell 0
S Stokes 7 E Surry 1
W Davidson 4 E Wilkes 1
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Surry Central @ East Wilkes

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Slasher Killer said:
Very good game too. I hate NFHS wasn't around then, the clips I seen of it were super fun.

2016 in that area was insane. So many good teams that year. Probably the best all around year for Wilkes county, every team had winning records that year. WC finally woke up after underperforming for so long, North Wilkes was underratidly good under Chipman, West had their one excellent season under Hunt, and you guys were solid again. Never before that I can remember and it was a nice surprise. Hard to believe that was 8 years ago.
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Very hard to believe I currently work with guys who was on the EW 13-1 team from 2015. Unreal how that's been almost 10 years. Seems like yesterday.
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Surry Central @ East Wilkes

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EWCards#1 said:
Last time SC beat EW was 2016 with a score of 21-20.
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Very good game too. I hate NFHS wasn't around then, the clips I seen of it were super fun.

2016 in that area was insane. So many good teams that year. Probably the best all around year for Wilkes county, every team had winning records that year. WC finally woke up after underperforming for so long, North Wilkes was underratidly good under Chipman, West had their one excellent season under Hunt, and you guys were solid again. Never before that I can remember and it was a nice surprise. Hard to believe that was 8 years ago.
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Surry Central @ East Wilkes

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ncball04 said:
When is the last time Surry Central was good? With the way East Surry & Mount Airy have been so dominant and North Surry really taking strides in the right direction, when will Surry Central be able to do that? Do they just not have solid male athletes in the school?
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SC's issues have always been pretty much the athlete department. Pre 2000 they struggled to have consistent classes until the 90's when Alex Mebane got there. Before him they had one of the nation's longest losing streaks, it was even on ESPN according to old newspaper articles (never seen any footage though.) Mebane installed the wishbone option set and they found stability which never left. Even Holder ran it when he was there some years. Dave Johnson and Southern were really the two who got the program stabilized. Their talented classes are once in an era though, 2005 and 2016 were literally around dry spots.

As for their issues now, SC's having numbers issues like a lot of schools. Their Junior class situation was really dire at one part in the summer, early on they had 2-3 kids show up. I counted 5 in the season preview which is a step up, but they are very senior heavy this year. The skill players they have are good for them, especially the QB. He's the best I've seen them have, the kid can chunk it. They also have a nice back set. But going down the ages it's not as good. They play awfully hard but this gonna be their best year at getting stuff done.

? mark for them is what is going to happen once Southern retires, he's been the HC as long as I've been around he started my freshman year in 07. He's close to retirement age. Whenever he does go that's gonna be a huge ? mark in terms of how they good. If they make the wrong hire they'll be in a deep spot. I expect it sometime in a few years.
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