Originally posted by sbbbfan:
Riverside and E Carteret both had teams that come along like once every 20-30 years not every year like some seem to have. If given a team of allstars from 12 different middle schools every year you could be competitive too
I have been watching my alma mater , East Carteret , play football and basketball since before I was a student there in the late 70`s and 80`s . We have had some great baseball, basketball and football players come from there. Guys who have gone on to play at virtually every major college in NC . We had a Harlem Globetrotter , the defensive player of the year in Canadian Football an Arizona Cardinal linebacker , and many others who were Pirates , Wolfpackers , Tarheels Camels and the list goes on. Most three sport athletes and all-stars at all three sports .
The one thing they all had in common was very few of them played on the same team in the same years .Teams like the one East had this year come along once in a lifetime. These guys have ben together since they were in elementary school. They deserved to play a team that played by the same rules as them 100 % and they showed the same dominance over everyone they played this season 1a.2a.3a. and 4a when those teams were restricted by territorial boundaries.
The sister school in our county is West Carteret. They are 3A and also our rival. The same years they also had players go all over to different major college schools and were stars in many different sports like East. I can tell you in no uncertain terms , just like this season, if we could take the best players from East Carteret and West Carteret , and now Croatan High from our county of 68000 people and put them on one team we would have a dynasty too.
When I read some people on here defending the position it makes me quite ill. I have no problem with the rules being bent for someone who needs a little help but then to allow them to compete for the same championship after they had the rules bent for them is unacceptable. East ALMOST brought the giant down this year , one point and one second and we would have had the ring .
Once again I say play them all in the regular season if you want to, allow them to bend their rules and then allow them their own post season tournament and then play Charter Vs. Traditional for all the marbles in a 6 team tourney . 1a thru 4a , against charter and parochial. Or better yet , classify them by the population base they can draw from. Everyone deserves a fair shot against equal competition. Sportsmanship is about more than shaking hands after a game. A level playing field has a place there too.