Draughn is the new Swain when it comes to open enrollment. All the years of hearing on these boards about how Swain can thank Cherokee for all of their championships. I'm sure BK remembers those posts because I'm sure he was a part of the ribbing too back then. But Swain drawing from Cherokee and their 20 players back in the day is way different than Draughn (potentially) drawing for those 1000+ kids at Freedom, since it's a failing school as you all have mentioned.
1A West next year?
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Can we just all agree no matter what the school size is a teams only going to have 50 ish kids come to play football… schools that win regularly may have more but the bottom line is you better have a great youth program. I’m also guessing that Andrews has most of every boy in the school playing football …. Now if that was the case everywhere bigger school would probably dominate every game. Do I like having 4 classes NO !!!!
Some people make it sound like this is something new !!! We have been fighting this for years
Here we go...
www.highschoolot.com
NCHSAA could be expanding to as many as 7 classifications under new amendment proposal
For the second time in nearly three years, the N.C. High School Athletic Association will hold a vote of the full membership in hopes of changing the bylaws to allow for the addition of new classifications.
www.highschoolot.com
If anyone read the attached article 9Above) you will quickly see that while 68% of the membership voted for expansion previously, the number of schools voting for it had to be 75% and did not achieve this level because many schools did not vote at all.
My take on that is: the problem is not with the NCHSSA, rather it is with the schools that did not participate in the vote.
It’s way bigger issue in 1a. How would you like to coach at a school with 300 kids in the entire school. Assuming you got 150 boys in the entire school. Good luck even fielding a team.
In 4a give me 1200 kids and I’ll find 30 guys that’ll beat your butt. It’s not real hard there’s more boys to choose from.
Would you like to pick a team from 150 boys or 300 boys?
Do you think your 150 boys would be at a disadvantage if I picked from 300 boys?
Do you think picking from 1200 boys or 1500 boys makes that big a difference.
I coached at a middle school with 31 boys in the 7th and 8th grade. We competed in basketball but got our brains beat out in football. In football a small school has such a huge disadvantage. That’s why it’s miraculous what robbinsville does consistently.
Schools should be forced to vote and if they don't they should face a fine. If it requires sending someone to schools that don't vote to get a vote, so be it.
First off if a school doesn't vote, it's counted as a "NO" vote..NCHSAA should change that policy. It could just as easy be a yes vote. If a school doesn't vote they should not be included in the vote, thus weakening down the percentage ..
Your right. It should be mandatory !!!
With those numbers you still have the same problem. 400 trying to compete with schools twice their size
I don't think as many as I thought. Made some adjustments.
Honestly if they go 7, it's for equal numbers, so it will be a percentage.
Quite a few but alot of non football schools so that's an issue.
Change the vote from 75% to 2/3 votes which is a majority.
I know none of the bigger schools in 1a would complain about playing schools with 800
School with 400 in same division as team with 800.....yeah that's dumb. Double the size.
GA has hell of a lot more population and a lot more HSs
Not really Georgia is 8th in population and North Carolina is 9th. If what I just looked up there is more high schools in North Carolina
They did say 7 classes. 8 works better because it could look more like the 1A-1AA, 2A-2AA, 3A 3AA, & 4A 4AA. All the numbers would change below but use a split formula they had for the playoffs 2 years ago for A & AA. They made that work starting with 8 games. It's money they are after anyway.
1A-0-400
2A-401-800
3A-801-1200
4A-1201-1600
5A-1600-2000
6A-2001-2500
7A-2501 +
1A-0-400
2A-401-800
3A-801-1200
4A-1201-1600
5A-1600-2000
6A-2001-2500
7A-2501 +
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Georgia is only slightly bigger than NC population wise and chances are NC surpasses it eventually.
May want to check those numbers. The article indicates a lot more schools than your example.
I think I saw the NCHSAA say the goal was 64 teams in each division. Maybe I'm crazy.
I deleted it I don't know was I was thinking.
I believe I was adding East numbers and West numbers separately instead of all together. I tried to delete it before anyone noticed once I realized.
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I deleted that post forget it. Don't know what I was thinking been a long day got some medical issues on my mind is my only excuse. There are 427 I think so that's 61 in 6 with 60 in one if you go 7 classifications.
NCHSAA could be expanding to as many as 7 classifications under new amendment proposal
For the second time in nearly three years, the N.C. High School Athletic Association will hold a vote of the full membership in hopes of changing the bylaws to allow for the addition of new classifications.
www.highschoolot.com
Well the article states 432. I was going by the PDF of the conferences actually I was one off .NCHSAA could be expanding to as many as 7 classifications under new amendment proposal
For the second time in nearly three years, the N.C. High School Athletic Association will hold a vote of the full membership in hopes of changing the bylaws to allow for the addition of new classifications.
1A East 52 -West 55
2A 53 - 53
3A 52 - 55
4A 52 - 54
That's 426 I don't why it's different from the 432 unless the PDF is just showing football schools but it doesn't state.
GHSA has 459 schools in 8 classes, NCHSAA is now in the 430s with the schools that got added today. If you took out all the private schools GHSA allows that NCHSAA doesn’t, we’d have more.
By the time this goes into effect the numbers of schools will probably be in the 440s with all the charters popping up like rabbits. I think the DPI approved the fast track of 3 more yesterday ran by a for profit organization.
Sorry to hear that. Wish you the best dealing with these issues.
