First draft of realignment
- Thread starter Sportsnut17
- Start date
Tarboro…blown away on that one.
Polk to Avery is still a two-hour drive. and the SMC won't be able to schedule any non-conference games for sports other than football with 13 teams.
I like the conferences for the Burke schools, though.
I like the conferences for the Burke schools, though.
SWO in same conference as Havelock OMG lol
I like the WHC with Polk and Hendo they were both in our conference for a long time, six of those SMC teams don't play football that's also been a conference thing for a long time.
Switch Polk with W. Caldwell (both 3A) and I think there would be shorter drives for most teams. Or at least a fairer split.
I was hoping for a couple new teams in the Rocky River Conference but all we got was swapping out Piedmont for Mount Pleasant and everything else is the same. Mount Pleasant is definitely an approvement for the conference in football over Piedmont. Liked to maybe have seen one more team added.
Monroe 5A
Parkwood 5A
Forest Hills 5A
Mount Pleasant 4A
Anson 4A
West Stanly 4A
Central Academy 4A (No football)
Monroe 5A
Parkwood 5A
Forest Hills 5A
Mount Pleasant 4A
Anson 4A
West Stanly 4A
Central Academy 4A (No football)
Exactly why 8 classes is overboard
8 classes is watered down. Easier to win a State Championship. Need to earn it
Clinton
South Brunswick
South Columbus
Whiteville
Pender
West Bladen
Fairmont
Red Springs
Trask
What a joke.
Travel and No rivals
Hopefully changes
I know Clinton wants to move
I miss the old ECC
Clinton
ED
Wallace
Jk
Southwest
ETC
South Brunswick
South Columbus
Whiteville
Pender
West Bladen
Fairmont
Red Springs
Trask
What a joke.
Travel and No rivals
Hopefully changes
I know Clinton wants to move
I miss the old ECC
Clinton
ED
Wallace
Jk
Southwest
ETC
if they were going to keep split conferences they could’ve easily kept that ECC together. However some very good teams would be seeded very low due to the trashy system they have.
I agree, NC does not have the population that states like Texas and California have.
not watered down. every state around us has more than us. most classifications have schools with double the number of kids as other schools. the current 3a championship is 2332 vs 1608. last weeks western final was 2332 vs 1195.
4 classifications was fine if you split playoffs into small and big. it makes conferences easier to group but allows larger and smaller schools to be separated as they need to be. 8 was a large jump but it is better than the 4.
NC should also keep conferences the same but go to 2 year terms for what classification you play in the playoffs.
just like it was a few years ago. A/AA for each classification.
They do not have to do anything. you stay in your conference. you literally just get moved come playoff time if your adm #s have jumped one direction or the other.
Do that in every sport (wherever possible, some sports won't work) to give more schools the chance to win state titles. But you'll still have some split conferences due to geography. There are just some schools that are too remote from others that are similar in student population.
for example this year. west charlotte is playing in 3a despite being one of the largest schools in the state. they should be a 4a school this year but being stuck in a 4 year cycle allows them to have more than 700 kids this week and 1100 kids last week than their opponent. makes no sense.
One of the biggest complaints there are on the other boards is that some people think there's unfair competition between them and other schools in their classification. If we're already going to have playoffs for 8 classes then why not do this for basketball, baseball, soccer and some of the other sports?
Fewer classifications make it easier to make conferences, but more playoffs remove some of the unfairness of having schools that are a lot larger or smaller compete for championships.
yeah it should be like this for all sports. larger schools have an advantage no matter what sport it is.
I hope you guys play havelock on a JK bye week. I’d love to see that.ED in a 4A/5A split.
We had a home and home with Havelock in 2008-2009. ED won both. That projected conference could be brutal if Richlands has really turned a corner & SWO hires the right coach. I live in Onslow county; there is plenty of talent here.
Yeah, might be a top conference in the state depending on how Richland’s and swo do!
SW will be a threat again, if they hire the right coach. SW has tons of talent, just have to be able to relate to them. That simple
Football is a numbers/depth game. Other sports are not that way (as much) at least. For example when whiteville had mackenzie gore and the other pitcher (can’t remeber his name) they would have probably won any classification…you never hear a 1a that could win the 4a in football. Occasionally a 3a might but even that is rare extremely
Can you get em back from Jacksonville and Northside🤣
We used to have one championship event for wrestling and track with no classifications. If you won a wrestling weight class or a track event, then you were the state champion and any school who got the most points at that event won the state championship. The NCHSAA went away from that to give more kids and schools the opportunity to compete and that's all we'd be doing by subdividing in all sports. There's no good reason not to as more communities would have the chance to brag about their kids winning a state championship in whatever sport.
Not now, but if a proven coach comes in, they won't leave as much lol. WRH took a bunch as well.
