Its game day. Best to luck to Hickory and win that title. Safe travels for everyone that‘s going to the game.
15-0 Hickory vs 15-0 71st 3A State Final
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well you gotta figure chatham and randolph counties are a stones throw from each other...so the exact site could be southern part of randolph.....heck i don't know....but you are right...neither county has requirements to host......I'm old school....I liked it better when they played at the school with the highest seed in the state title game.....much more exciting for the fans....but i guess the college stadium is more exciting for the players......price of admission was certainly cheaper back the old school way.....my Dad who passed years ago would think long and hard about shelling out 15 dollars (plus a fee) for a game ticket...not to mention 15 dollars to park...........He would complain about Greensboro coliseum getting 50 to 75 cents to park back in the old, old days......lol...................
Wake forest is my favorite spot. Only problem is number of locker rooms they have.
The problem with hosting at a high school was that it wasn’t the higher seed necessarily. They alternated between the east school hosting and the next year the west.
So when Thomasville played Kidd’s ER team in 1983, they hosted as the East representative. A Year earlier or later, it would have been in Thomasville. Home field is too much of an advantage to leave it to the luck of the draw. Especially when several hours of travel are involved.
my dad also passed before the age of cable and satellite tv (not many channels back then but FREE).....he would be dumbstruck if he knew i paid almost 200 dollars a month for tv and internet....................
Why not play 4a & 3a at UNCCs field and 2a & 1a Memorial Stadium in CHLT. Is somewhat centrally located with lots hotels/restaurants, etc near stadiums and the venues feel like actual HS games when you're there.
Even a smaller Stadium like Wake swallows up even the most fervent HS fanbase.
Charlotte's field holds 18-19k and Memorial Stadium holds 10-11k. Perfect for those class sizes to help make the HS environment present. That's a huge part of HS football and these enormous stadiums take that away.
Charlotte is about to start expansion on their stadium I believe this off season. An upper deck around three sides and a new press box and club seating. Looks really nice and would be a great place for future Championship games. I think seating capacity will be 32,000-36,000 after expansion, not certain on total.
Charlotte would be a great place to host lots of NCHSAA events. But every time it gets brought up, someone who is close to the association will point out that there doesn't seem to be much interest on the part of the city to do so.
I've watched Hickory for past few weeks...if 71 can't stop Hickory's QB from passing, it'll be a long night for them.
Maybe both happen, and a shootout ensues...
I know of someone who predicted they would play for the title after defeating East Lincoln.
In the highlights I saw of Hickory, #34 is a bruiser.
What more do you want guy? It’s in Chapel Hill what if the three a representative was from the beach?
It’s in a great place a nice stadium You just can’t please everybody
I’m traveling my two hours one way and back home because I am just a fan, this trip is not far at all for the hickory folks. We travel this far for regular season games, quite often.
They use to have a game played at Wake Forest. What happened that they no longer play a State Championship there.
Just for it to be centralized. Winston, Greensboro, or Charlotte make the most logical sense. Being in Raleigh and Chapel Hill make it a little easier on the NCHSAA folks where they just have to drive 5 miles.
Rooting for Hickory (a fellow west region school). Watching in My48 tonight. Regardless of who does end up winning I would love to see a hard fought game with no injuries by either team.
The NCHSAA absolutely should use colleges for East & West Regionals.
Barton in East and Lenoir-Rhyne in West would great. Both are about 8 to 10,000 seats, new and beautiful.
Man that number 34 for Hickory is a healthy young man, Hickory right down the field first drive
Im watching it on MetV of Spetrum. 1260. Hickory just scored. 7-0
Replay showed receiver’s knee was clearly down. Ultimately they would but….
I started to type that. My40 popped up and is showing the game.
Edit: It shows My48. Also MYNETWORKTV.
According to the web site thoughtco.com the geographic center of NC is 79d27.3'w by 35d36.2'n, which they say is 10 miles NW of Sanford. That seems mighty north and east to me, but that's what they say. I would have guessed somewhere between Salisbury and Thomasville.
