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4A Playoff Projection

JMACDE99..... I do read fine. I know NCHSAA do seeding on each side of the bracket. I seriously doubt they will seed 1-32 because of West/East side thing. It is not feasible if number one seed " Plymouth" play number 32 seed "Hayesville" in first round. (7 hrs plus drive)

Now in 4A scenario, that would put nbr one Scotland against McDowell which would be seeded as 32. which would be 3 and half hours drive in a car at best. I beleive that 1-16 would be fine and fair enough since it split in two (West and East)
 
I have always thought 4AA could and should go state wide. Wilmington and Fayetteville may have a team in the big 4A but for the most part it is The Triangle, Triad, and Meck County area.
 
Maybe we shouldn't complain, I was visiting in Indianapolis last week and the Indiana state playoffs
started last Friday night. I went to a game where the #1 ranked undefeated 6a team played on the road at a 6-3 team with a conference loss in the first round of the playoffs. The winner of that game
was set to play the winner of 2 teams with a 500 record. (4-5)(5-4)
 
JMACDE99..... I do read fine. I know NCHSAA do seeding on each side of the bracket. I seriously doubt they will seed 1-32 because of West/East side thing. It is not feasible if number one seed " Plymouth" play number 32 seed "Hayesville" in first round. (7 hrs plus drive)

Now in 4A scenario, that would put nbr one Scotland against McDowell which would be seeded as 32. which would be 3 and half hours drive in a car at best. I beleive that 1-16 would be fine and fair enough since it split in two (West and East)

It is feasible (if you are the #32 seed that is the price you pay). I think most booster clubs could figure out a way to get a nights stay for rooms and a couple of meals for their teams. This idea that winning a shitty conference is somehow weighted more than a second place team in a conference like the SEC or Meck (conf) with Creek and that crew is absurd. TC Roberson could get a 4 or 5 seed reporting 3 wins. That is beyond stupid its almost insanity. Reward teams on the year they had in totality.
 
Maybe we shouldn't complain, I was visiting in Indianapolis last week and the Indiana state playoffs
started last Friday night. I went to a game where the #1 ranked undefeated 6a team played on the road at a 6-3 team with a conference loss in the first round of the playoffs. The winner of that game
was set to play the winner of 2 teams with a 500 record. (4-5)(5-4)
they play basketball there what in the hell do they know about football anyway. lol. There has to be a better way than what we have now.
 
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Maybe we shouldn't complain, I was visiting in Indianapolis last week and the Indiana state playoffs
started last Friday night. I went to a game where the #1 ranked undefeated 6a team played on the road at a 6-3 team with a conference loss in the first round of the playoffs. The winner of that game
was set to play the winner of 2 teams with a 500 record. (4-5)(5-4)

I saw Warren Central play a conference foe in the first round about eight years ago. An undefeated team and one with two losses played at the team WC had already beaten that year. Crazy!
 
Coach I hope all is well. Dad and I were talking about the old days just a few weeks ago. I tell my son stories about working for you in the summer. He looks at me in amazing like, "you did what" and I tell him I enjoyed every minute of it and he rolls his eyes. Lol!
All is well John! Will make a point to see you during the playoffs.
 
Hello folks! New poster to the boards, long time reader. Would someone be kind enough to educate me as to why the SCOTS would go west this year, when we have been in the east for so many years past?
 
Hello folks! New poster to the boards, long time reader. Would someone be kind enough to educate me as to why the SCOTS would go west this year, when we have been in the east for so many years past?

Simple.....Longitude and Latitude.
 
If it's that simple, why haven't we been playing in the west bracket all along?

It will depend on which teams are in the playoffs. For example, lets say the middle of the state is 75 degrees lat. or long. (cant remember which one...but I want to say long.) So 32 teams make the playoffs. So let's say there is 12 teams from the western part of the state to make the playoffs, but 20 teams from the eastern part of the state to make the playoffs. Well you cant have 20 teams or 12 teams to play each other because it is 16 seeds each in the west and the east. So the 4 most eastern teams are going to have to move to the western side because of ***drum roll please**** latitude and longitude. If you reverse the number then you would have the opposite (most western teams have to go east) So that's why teams in the middle of the state, Richmond, Scotland, Pinecrest, Page, and etc. just to name a few have this problem.

BTW, the lat. and long. figures are not definite. I just wanted to give you an example.
 
It will depend on which teams are in the playoffs. For example, lets say the middle of the state is 75 degrees lat. or long. (cant remember which one...but I want to say long.) So 32 teams make the playoffs. So let's say there is 12 teams from the western part of the state to make the playoffs, but 20 teams from the eastern part of the state to make the playoffs. Well you cant have 20 teams or 12 teams to play each other because it is 16 seeds each in the west and the east. So the 4 most eastern teams are going to have to move to the western side because of ***drum roll please**** latitude and longitude. If you reverse the number then you would have the opposite (most western teams have to go east) So that's why teams in the middle of the state, Richmond, Scotland, Pinecrest, Page, and etc. just to name a few have this problem.

BTW, the lat. and long. figures are not definite. I just wanted to give you an example.
!!! Ahhhh gotcha. Thanks for the breakdown.
 
Hello folks! New poster to the boards, long time reader. Would someone be kind enough to educate me as to why the SCOTS would go west this year, when we have been in the east for so many years past?
The simplest answer is that Charlotte is having a power year in football in general. They will qualify more teams this season than in any other year I can remember in the last 15 years. The result is that the 4AA West bracket will be flooded with Charlotte teams, which is pushing a bunch of traditionally 4AA West teams over to the East bracket (including Page, Richmond and NW Guilford).

Another effect of Charlotte qualifying so many teams is that most of the high schools in Charlotte are 4AA, which means that a bunch of teams that would otherwise be 4AA this year are being pushed down into the 4A brackets.

The net result is that the 4AA cutline is staying way west (near Charlotte), while the teams being pushed eastwards and downwards are keeping the 4A cutline way east. In the 4A brackets, the exact opposite is happening than what we're seeing in the 4AA brackets. In the 4A brackets, a bunch of traditionally East teams are instead heading West (including Scotland) because the 4A East bracket is being stuffed with so many displaced teams.
 
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