The actual realignment will be 2012-2025, worked on this year. Below is link to realignment committee.
Why would you move Surry Central up to 2A? According to the ADM's from Simmons they are not even the biggest 1A school in that conference.2 year alignments would be the best option honestly but that's just a start; their whole process needs to change, and be modernized. Schools need to be allowed to appeal and challenge set ups that allow them to suffer. Smaller schools shouldn't be able to boss bigger ones around, and more populated counties shouldn't be allowed to have priority in setups of conferences. There's a lot of good they can do but given who is in charge I don't expect it anytime soon. They want things to stay the way they are.. not smart.
Simmons's projection here stinks all the way around.. Northwest gets off the best they have in a while, but the 2A conferences are an absolute joke. It's more or less the same sucky set up but Northwest gets off scott free this time instead of the MVAC while everyone else suffers if this even ever comes close to happening. There is absolutely no reason why Ashe, WC, and West Wilkes should have to go to Caldwell or Burke county for a conference game while they could have us in the MVAC and just come to Toast or East Bend and Dobson. The travel times would be WAY less and the gates would be a lot more.
2A conference 8 and conference 14 are terribly set up. Take us and Forbush out of 8 and put us in 14 and move Surry Central up to 2A and that would be perfect. To replace us in 8 they could put HP Andrews in and that would make a fun and very solid conference. Also Starmount with the Winston schools instead of the Northwest is just plain loony tunes. Only good thing here is that North Forsyth is a 3A again where they should be to begin with.
I don't know what Simmons is smoking but it's really wack. Must be what they like in the NCHSAA office
Surry Central has been 2A sense the last realignment in the Western Piedmont Conference and maybe the early 2000s from looking at their ADMs back to 2002 and being 848 in 2004 and staying mainly in the high 700s. They have dropped since 2015 @ 799 - 2016 @ 786 - 2017 @ 781 2018 @ 715 and 2019 dropped to 687. They could drop to 1A but I am not sure what the cutoff will be this realignment.
Because the MVAC had to add North Forsyth this past season, Mount Airy had to drop Surry Central for the first time as far back as I can remember, 1960 I guess. Mount Airy played Alleghany and Reidsville in place of Eden Morehead and Surry Central from the year before and I think Eden Morehead was a 2-year deal replacing Carroll County, VA. I don't see not playing Surry Central lasting long because they ar a county school and North Surry, Mount Airy, Surry Central and East Surry keeps the larger gates in the county. Elkin seems to come and go on realignments but has been around a while now as the 5th county school. Elkin & Mount Airy are Surry County City schools and North Surry, Surry Central and East Surry are Surry County Schools.
If you look at Conference # 11 Surry Central is in with the 1As but not sure where the cut off is. North Wilkes is there also with 707 ADM and both were 2A. So we will find out sometime in the spring of 2021 I guess. All but those 2 were 1A. Will it be a split 1A-2A conference ?
Pisgah,
What most of the people that move here do... Work in Asheville, Greenville, JC, Spartanburg, Hendo, Etc. and commute. There's also plenty of good paying jobs in and around this area outside of the mill, and in the right fields, believe it or not. Lol.
Retirees have always moved here by the droves. That's nothing new. But lately, given Asheville's COL we've had a major rise in young people moving in and around us. Most of them are just hippies looking for some breweries and hiking trails but a lot of them do have kids, kids that will one day have to go to school somewhere...
Yeah, it's definitely past time for that to have happened. But, it's not like anyone in WNC hasn't been fighting for it. We have for over a decade now. It just falls on deaf ears, just like everything else that needs $ does in this area. Contradictory to the state map, it must actually end in Asheville because anything that requires $ doesn't ever make it west of Asheville...
Unfortunately, as soft as society is getting... I don't think they'll be football around by the time they get old enough to play it anyways.
And now the whole 5G conspiracy theory that will turn even more people against technology and science. People talk about not living in fear, but many of the same folks believe that some huge cabal of rich folks and politicians are conspiring to control everything about our lives. And yet, they wholeheartedly clamor for tax cuts for those same people.
That also sounds good and maybe better a gate.
Looks maybe like a 1970s Northwest 3A Conference or close to it.
Minus West Stokes it seems like back in the 70s or very early 80s these schools were all in the Northwest 3A conference before some dropped to 2A then some on to 1A in the late 1980s or 1990s.South Stokes was 4A I believe before West Stokes was built I thin in the 1990s.and then they went to 3A 2A and as for last year 1A.
Retired people moving here creates jobs for other people. Not all of them good jobs, but jobs nonetheless.
your right i remember being told that south stokes took kids not just from walnut cove, but also king, winston-salem, and even greensboro, all before West stokes came around. From what i hear it seems like the NCHSAA wants single classification conferences. I just want your input what do you think matters more: That you have a 1A only conference so that we are all at the same "level" playing field. Or do we go 1A/2A where its geographically better, better rivalries in-conference, and higher gate numbers. and the only difference would be lower ADM schools playing higher ADM schools in conference?
