Wouldnt it be easier to switch Kings Mountain and Ashbrook with East and North Lincoln. Would make two non split conferences.
why have 2 8A teams in the Raleigh area ruin a conference? Stick those guys in the other 2 8A conferences.
The only problem with Hoggard and Laney is that the next closest 8A school is Corinth Holders in the northwestern side of Johnston County
Wasn't the NCHSAAs doing. The lawmakers forced this. NCHSAA has been want 6 classifications for many years.
Davie not in the conference with the WS schools would be very weird. Nothing against Mooresville area, but the gates and travel time for Davie is a big plus.
Nothing against Davie, but after last year this conference is the last thing we hoped for lol.
NCHSAA was expanding. The lawmakers did not force eight. If the lawmakers had their way you would have seen the parochials separated out. That was a hot topic during the hearings.
The parochials lobbying arm is very strong in state legislature.
I thought when they limited the number of schools per classification, that made the 6 classifications impossible.
I am not as involved as I once was but my understanding that there was a lot of wiggle room on number of teams per classification such as only counting schools with football. Eight equals 512 schools and with the opening of schools in a few metro areas and the continued charter explosion that number will be hit in hit iin the next few years.
Three subdividing to six team sport state titles was presented about 14 years ago along with the football / all other sports dual alignment. Schools were heavily opposed. I thought it was as near a perfect mix as you could get.
Needs to be subdivided for soccer playoffs and the duals playoffs for wrestling and tennis as well (all "team" sports). Having an individual champion for those individual events is something the state used to do. Probably need lots of qualifiers for something like golf, so teams can qualify and get a team champion and then rotate play among several different courses to make it fair. Other tournaments would probably be held over three or four days at one site.
Track would do individual champions in the three classes and subdivide for the relays in the six divisions. My preferance was individual events (track, wrestling, tennis singles, golf) have one champion and subdivide out for the relays. Iget a wrestler at a small 1A school does not have as much to work with teammate wise in most cases but going to eight is ABSURD.
Subdividing for relays makes sense as bigger schools would have an advantage in getting four runners.
Miss the days of the open class wrestling and track championships. Did not like the lack of subdivided relays but the individual were the best of the best, four from the east and four from the west.
You are correct. Corvian is gonna be the next school under scrutiny. To make the title game in 3 years and win it in basketball is amazing. They should be in 2A though IMHO.
I don't know any coach that would like that. I have heard coaches say they would like more games, especially in non football sports.
You do realize that currently it is harder for kids at the 4-A level to make states than it is to qualify for Nationals. We had a kid make all-state 3 years ago, now for another kid to qualify in the same event he has to break that other guys school record and then some just to qualify for states.
That may eliminate split conferences, but the disparity in ADM's between the largest and smallest schools in a conference remains.
Not a fan when they went to the prelims on the day of the finals. Would prefer to see qualifying handled differently.
I'm a basketball coach and I've never heard a coach say "man I wish we could play more games". We don't need so many games, we don't need to start playing games while half the schools are still playing football. Shorten it all a week or two.
Total agreement. One of the most successful high school coahes in NC and SC history told me there are too many games. He likes for his players to play other sports. I wish there were ten regular season games and four playoff games. Make sure the deserving teams make the playoffs and make qualifying mean something. With eight classes that should be easy. I can tell you every time reducing playoffs spots has been mentioned the football coaches were not in favor of it.
