With the slow down of the world going on right now, i'm wondering if any posters have any thoughts on how realignment will shake out for your favorite team?
Realignment thoughts
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I've only seen one projection and it showed ED being in a ten team conference adding Bladen County schools to the current East Central and one more but i'm not sure who that was. The travel there would be ridiculous.
Link? I think you are looking at one of the initial proposals from the last realignment.
Coming from a Central Carolina Conference perspective here... 10 teams is awful. Not great for football, but even worse for some other sports. Really limits the opportunities to schedule some quality opponents, which is important when you’ve got some schools who are just tossing kids out there to form a team in baseball and softball especially.
We have 6, in the Coastal. Hard finding 6 teams to play non conference. Hear we are getting Dixon and Richlands though.
Nick Stevens from IHigh has a new one https://www.highschoolot.com/the-realignment-plan-to-level-the-playing-field/19015978/
That would be the SEC of high school for sure. Our schools will go broke on gas going to EC twice a week though. Man, that is the boringest ride known to man.
IMO Thomasville needs to drop down to 1A,and would probably be placed in the YVC again,the conference is not the best but not the worst either,placing Thomasville there would only make it better
Haven't seen anybody, not even Brian Simmons, put together a list of future conferences. That will be the selling point of the realignment. I can see Thomasville dropping to 1A. I can also see Eastern Randolph and Trinity dropping to 1A as well. Providence Grove barely has 2A numbers.
That’s because we don’t know what they could look like without knowing what the 2020 ADM’s will be and without knowing which model they will use to divide the classifications.
I don’t see Thomasville dropping unless they go back to the percentage mix for each classification that was used a few years ago.
Well, no one has put together any models of what conferences are going to possibly look like using last year's numbers! How much do you reckon they will change when the 2020s ADMs come out this fall? I don't exactly see any school doubling or tripling its enrollment overnight!
Until the number of schools per classification is determined it is tough to do much.
In my opinion you should do everything you can to avoid a split conference.
If my options are split conferences or long travel and small Gates, I’ll take split conferences
