Good, bad or the ugly. What are your thoughts. One thing I do see is these lower classes like 1A and 2A some of these small schools actually have a chance at a State title. Preferably I like to have seen 6 classes
Your thoughts on 8 Classes
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Yeah, I do think 8 is too many. In 2a I really don't see any changes in someone competing with Tarboro in the east.
8 is too many I think. 6 would have been better
So they renamed the 1A 1AA 2A 2AA etc. from years ago…. Got it
I was about to say it's really no different from the A/AA playoffs
With the larger schools located in clusters they could have done 6A or a 5A and left the rest of us alone in place. Main concern would be avoiding a burden on too spread a 1A group for travel.
I hate it. I'd prefer 6 non-split classes personally. More championships means less competition in my opinion.
I think 8 is too many, 6 would have been about right for NC. 7 is probably even ok. But 8 stretches NC pretty thin.
6A-1A would have been perfect. Going up to 8A waters down the competition. Doesn't make much sense. It's just a rebrand of the AA/A crap they did for so many years IMO.
We had 8 classifications already and most everyone hated it… personally I didn’t mind and thought it was a good system.. only thing I didn’t like was watching to see who went big or little A. One year a school could play in AA and the next be in A.
The NCHSAA could have easily took the lowest and highest 10% of the schools and classified them into 1A and 6A. The remaining schools of 80%, in between, could have been divided into 4 classes and created 2A,3A,4A and 5A giving each of those classes 20% of the schools.
I think 90% of the people agree that 6 classifications would have been best. But the ones in charge make the decisions based on money. So this is what we have.
It is very diluted but that has to be what ADs and coaches were shooting for when they petitioned for this model. The 4A looks the most watered down in the middle and I'm not sure you've really accomplished what everyone was truly after at the 1A or 8A level. It seems like we struggle with any numbers concerning this topic that aren't either 4 or 8. 5, 6, or 7 classes just can't gain a foothold and never have.
The ones in charge that did this is the state politicians. When they capped the number of teams in each classification, there was know choice but to go to 8. If more schools are built, then we would have to move up to 9 classifications if we outgrow the 64 limit. Crazy how they took over.
This is a long term plan, to account for future growth as well. In 10-20 years it'll probably make more sense, especially as urban schools continue to balloon. Sure it may seem watered down today, however the ADM gaps were too large with only 4 classifications. In the 2A/3A especially, some of the differences between the smallest and largest schools were the size of an enrollment of another school in the same classification. That just can't happen and maintain a competitive fairness at the same time.
