My realignment proposal

[sec2011]

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.

It's ridiculous how big the overlap is. Kids in the championship this weekend will miss half the dang basketball season. Imagine being a basketball recruit but stuck in football still because you play that too.

That's what I'm hitting at. It would be nice for Coaches and Admin to be able to focus all their attention on winter sports by Thanksgiving. It's just a watered down experience across the board. Not to mention the really young kids that are getting 8 quarters and moved up to playoffs. Now they have zero time with their JV basketball team and are not developing.

 

[AmosAlonzoStagg]

Cardinal Gibbons in 6A would be a travesty. Players whose parents PAY to keep them OUT of public schools would win at least 10 “public school” state championships every year. Place them in 8A along with Catholic - or, even better, kick them out of the NCHSAA.

What would that look like? Do we have enough big private schools here in NC? Are there enough to have an east and a west? Is there enough to balance into at least two classifications? In the Raleigh area I believe there are only 2 schools that have over 1000 students - Cardinal Gibbons and North Raleigh Christian. I think Ravenscroft has 400-500.

 

[SimmonsRatings]

My second draft is now up. Made a few changes.

https://simmonsratings.com/realign2529.htm

 

[RD28327]

Still half baked. Pinecrest and Hoke County will NOT be in a 6A/7A/8A league.

 

[BlackKnight24]

take pinecrest and hoke county off and have a straight 7a conference

 

[woodsboy1991]

take pinecrest and hoke county off and have a straight 7a conference

Or keep the Union Pines and Co draft the way it is and put the rest of the greater Sandhills into 3 6-team conferences instead of this jumbo cluster

 

[RD28327]

UP is fine with the Lee and Harnett teams. It's the remainder of the Sandhills that needs to be fixed!!!

 

[ref4e]

Still half baked. Pinecrest and Hoke County will NOT be in a 6A/7A/8A league.

Those are the only 8A schools in the Sandhills area. If not with other Sandhills schools, where would you suggest they be placed?

 

[woodsboy1991]

Those are the only 8A schools in the Sandhills area. If not with other Sandhills schools, where would you suggest they be placed?

If not the Sandhills, then maybe Apex/Apex Friendship/Green Level/Panther Creek. But they can be kept in the Sandhills if set up with Richmond/Jack Britt/Lumberton/Purnell Swett. No need to toss Overhills/Pine Forest/Cape Fear in that equation

 

[RD28327]

Definitely a 7A/8A split conference for Hoke County and Pinecrest. I seriously doubt these schools want to travel to the Cary/Apex area or vice versa.