The NCHSAA put a proposal out to reduce the 1A playoffs to four rounds. This would have cut the field in half, ended the playoffs a week earlier with a championship day all to 1A, cutout some of the travel and teams with terrible records making the playoffs, but still leaving the sub-divided classifications allowing for two champions. The schools (coaches and ADs) overwhelmingly responded not interested. NCHSAA then presented a first round bye for top seeds therefore lowering the qualifiers to 48 from 64 with everything else remaining the same. Same response. Some of the reasons was why should 1A be treated different than the other classes and why should less teams qualify. HELLO, 1A coaches pushed for subdivided playoffs and had them in 2001 before the others followed in 2002. They then were the ones that complained about the early round travel that resulted in the pod system. Two of the worst things to ever happen to NC playoffs and they do not want to be treated different.
Whom ever the new person is, they cannot change anything unless the NCHSAA Board of Directors votes in approval of it. And the Board of Directors members are superintendents, principals, coaches, and AD's from all over the state.
I have watched the NCHSAA admin give very heartfelt opinions with great supporting facts on a proposal and the board voted against their wishes. I heavily agreed with the admin. The vote was reducing the season to 11 weeks and 11 games. Vote made in May which really screwed up schedules especially for the small state border schools.
Granted the admin give their opinions but surprising to me that they were overruled on something that was actually a huge item due to the timing and the ripple effect it would have. Note that this was really pushed by the winter sports people trying to end football a week earlier. It was changed back to 11 in 12 the next year due to the backlash.
We have discussed it here plenty of times. They do not seem to be able to get on the same page about too many items. Come to the coaches clinic in Greensboro Friday and Saturday. Attend the coaches meeting Friday night. Good time to see what type of changes are potentially in the future and what the thoughts are on them.
I agree with that! The problem is many of the things they want get shot down due to a lack of unity. My opinion from attending meetings is that they do not work together as well as they should and that they could do much better if they organized like a political group where they would decide on a path and then everyone would support it up their chain.
