The Little 32 (1A)

[RD28327]

The Little 32 (1A)

1. Bear Grass Charter — 243
2. Clover Garden — 241
3. Southeast Halifax — 240
4. Neuse Charter — 236
5. Carolina International — 236
6. Rocky Mount Prep — 233
7. Andrews — 221
8. Cape Hatteras — 203
9. Summit Charter — 200
10. Jackson Day — 200
11. Chatham Charter — 198
12. Wilson Prep — 196
13. North Edgecombe — 194
14. Columbia — 190
15. Excelsior Classical — 182
16. Woods Charter — 181
17. College Prep & Leadership — 178
18. River Mill Academy — 173
19. Apprentice Academy — 160
20. Valor Preparatory — 160
21. Winston-Salem Prep — 152
22. Tri-County Early College — 150
23. Hiwassee Dam — 144
24. Millennium Charter — 128
25. Highlands — 97
26. Hobgood Charter — 95
27. Blue Ridge Early College — 91
28. Mattamuskeet — 87
29. ENCSD — 86
30. Ocracoke — 54
31. NC School for the Deaf — 46
32. Nantahala — 34
    
    

 

[TD-FridayNight]

How many play football is the question? I know Millennium Charter has no high school football yet and it may be 5 or more years, they do have a middle school team i think.

 

[RD28327]

Seven teams play 11-man football (five in the East, two in the west).

 

[Thunder_struck8712]

My guess is the 7 schools would play up for football.

 

[TD-FridayNight]

There will have to be some 1A/2A & maybe 3A/4A conferences or how does it work ? Going to be interesting to see what they come up with if I am still here and I hope to be !
The next realignment maybe they will have AI to do it for them and get it right, lol.

 

[RD28327]

Big 32, Little 32, both or whatever, there's gonna be tons of split conferences. Some of those split leagues may span two classes (i.e. 7A/8A), some may span three or four clases (i.e. 1A/2A/3A, 5A/6A/7A/8A) ...

 

[RD28327]

Playing up, or even playing down (yes, it has happened) is gonna be tricky thanks to the "magic number of 64." Heck, give me 72 instead of the 100+ we have now!!! If a class has 65, 66 or even 67 schools, so what???

 

[Thunder_struck8712]

Are there any schools above Bear Grass that don't play football?

 

[RD28327]

Are there any schools above Bear Grass that don't play football?

If the NCHSAA goes with the Little 32, I count at least 25 scools in 2A that don't play football, six in 3A, and three in 4A. Roughly 60 schools that do NOT play 11-man football.

 

[BlueDevil1996]

Issue with small 32 is u run into more problems come playoff time then Big32 - Big 32 is actually a better setup n plan but smaller school would be bigger tho so

 

[btango]

They should look at 1A being a non football only classification. If the school is large enough to be in 2A or 3A, which will be only a few, place them in that classification. Should have never went for four to eight. Six for the next alignment at the most.

UNTIL the NCHSAA figures out what to do with smaller schools, whether traditional, charter, open magnet, or Parochial, in the smaller classifications they are doing nothing more than kicking the can down the road. Time for major change at the NCHSAA and the answer is not to have the state government run it.

 

[buzzcoach]

Bring back the split classifications for playoffs problem solved!!! It worked and was very fair.

 

[ObserveAndReport]

Bring back the split classifications for playoffs problem solved!!! It worked and was very fair.

I’d say three classes so you don’t have a ton of travel for conferences, then split all the playoffs. So essentially 6 but you don’t have as much regular season travel.

 

[btango]

Six football classes is the perfect number in my opinion. How it is divided up is the question along with how to place the charters, smaller parochials, traditional schools that allow non district students to play sports, and smaller open enrollment publics such as magnets.

 

[BlackCat93]

Bring back the split classifications for playoffs problem solved!!! It worked and was very fair.

But I thought, according to you, little A champs meant nothing? I can go back and find it if need be.

 

[buzzcoach]

But I thought, according to you, little A champs meant nothing? I can go back and find it if need be.I said 1A Champs in the 70s and 80s was a joke. Not many teams just like its getting ready to be again. Just look at what the 1A could look like and tell me it want be pitiful.

 

[BlackCat93]

Why is it a joke?? Did you play against those teams? I was young back then but I can promise this, those were some of the most physical teams to ever lace ‘em up! Ask the Streaters’ if little ol Robbinsville was a joke.

 

[buzzcoach]

Why is it a joke?? Did you play against those teams? I was young back then but I can promise this, those were some of the most physical teams to ever lace ‘em up! Ask the Streaters’ if little ol Robbinsville was a joke.

who?????

 

[BlackCat93]

You’ve never heard of the Streater brothers from Sylva-Webster?? You must be a young lad! Which is what I suspected 👌