IMO this isnt a bad initial draft for the Duplin County schools.
JK and WRH have relatively short rides compared to others and have a past history with most of those schools. True, they could be considered the favorites for football, but Princeton has had some good teams lately. The other schools have all had success in sports other than football.
If I am ED, I like the fact that most of those schools in the proposed new league have all of the same sports that ED offers. In addition, there is a familiarity with most if not all the schools. While Havelock is the elephant in the room, they are 5A and would have no bearing on ED or SWO being seeded with the other conference champions in 4A come playoff time. Besides, I see no way that ED does not play WRH or JK in the future in all sports. Those meetings will just be much earlier in the season.