Or you could just take the 4 non-Forsyth schools from both the Northwest 1A and the Western Piedmont 2A to form a Northwest 1A/2A and just leave the Mountain Valley the way that it is.
Mount Airy
East Surry
North Stokes
South Stokes
North Surry
Surry Central
West Stokes
Forbush
This was literally the Northwest conference I played in for N Surry in 2009/10 except for Bishop being in Forbush's spot.. it made great gates for everyone and the rivalries were good. But Bishop and North Stokes had to object over renewing it and it got axed; stupidest thing the state ever did. The latter school especially made a fuss. We got put in the red headed stepchild conference and the NW has devolved into nothing. To make it worst North Stokes's HC and AD had to tuck his stuff in and ran away once it all got out and got ugly.. totally not shady at all
We pushed for it in 2016 as the Surry/Stokes conference but state wanted none of it taking the Forsyth schools's sides; Forbush didn't help us either because they wanted back in the MVAC despite being no room for them when we offered them a spot. So dumb. If the state would look out for everyone for a change instead of the Forsyth schools firstly they could do a lot of good; but alas I doubt it. If they ever do change things I'll give them credit.