Right now NCHSAA are having a zoom meeting about realignment. Some schools saying they have to drive 4 hours round trip or more.
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I wonder what schools are affected by a four-hour drive. I don't think any of the schools in the new NWC are complaining; they are just trying to find non-conference games and move on.
The ones that were complaining were the schools who were in the "football only" conference which included schools as far apart as N. Rowan and Thomas Jefferson.
Other than me reading in a thread where Cardinal Gibbons just asked to be moved up to 7A, are there any complaints on the Eastern half?
Martin County had a list of objections to the conference they're in. I didn't catch all of them. Fike also objected to being in a conference with N. Nash.
Caught the tail end before lunch. A few of the Asheville schools were at bat, so to speak ... Enka and Noth Buncombe if I recall ...
N. Brunswick up after lunch and talks about how transient their student population is. They want to trade with Cardinal Gibbons to go down to 6A. Apparently, they have the second lowest 7A ADMs, but Smithfield-Selma is lower, and the board worries about why they weren't part of the discussion.
Piedmont and Sun Valley are up, and they express concerns about being in a conference with Charlotte Catholic. Piedmont also mentions how they aren't competitive with "other county schools", which I took as code for Weddington. Sun Valley points out that there could have been 6A and 7A conferences in the Charlotte Metro, which would mean fewer split conferences. The speaker alleges that there is a "palpable" political agenda at work where the Charlotte schools "don't want a private school (Catholic) in with them". Sun Valley speaker says however he prefers Catholic to Weddington and Marvin Ridge, citing declining enrollment.
The other option for TJCA is the SMC with 5+ hour round trips to Andrews and Murphy. Kind of a rock and a hard place for them.
West Iredell asks to be in with Burke and Rutherford County schools. Admits Rutherford County is concerned about travel.
I think Cherokee (2A) or Hayesville (2A) could play down to 1A and Robbinsville (1A) should play up to 2A if not Robbinsville will be winning the State (1A) Championship every year and they should be wanting to play up taking advantage of smaller football programs that never even make it past the 2nd or 3rd round in the West and even worse Eastern teams.
Who would be complaining up this way ? They should have left it with the 1st draft. There were no changes in the 2nd and 3rd drafts but I could have lived with either or a combination of the 1st and 3rd drafts. I can't imagine how else they would change it. Walkertown is the only Forsyth County school that I would want ! !
I wish Ashe would make their proposal available to the public, since it apparently would impact many schools across a wide area.
- 3A/4A Conference C
- North Wilkes (3A)
- Surry Central (3A)
- West Wilkes (3A)
- Ashe County (4A)
- Forbush (4A)
- North Surry (4A)
- West Stokes (4A)
- Wilkes Central (4A)
I’m trying to remember, but someone this morning referred to “page 100 of our proposal” and I think it was them, so it’s very detailed.
Put them back in their 2024 conference and see how the like it.
 Watauga | 4-0 | - | 10-1 |
 Freedom | 3-1 | 1.0 | 6-4 |
 Alexander Central | 3-3 | 2.0 | 5-7 |
 South Caldwell | 2-3 | 2.5 | 4-6 |
 Hibriten | 2-4 | 3.0 | 3-8 |
 Ashe County | 1-4 | 3.5 | 4-6 |
Ashe wants out of that (draft 3). I think they had a proposal of 6 schools and said they would be ok with Alleghany, Wllkes County, Elkin and Starmount minus Forbush. This was original draft 1
I think that was East Wilkes, I thought Ashe was complaining about some travel to the Surry. County schools. Because Hampton made some comment about he had traveled between N. Surry and Ashe in a car and that was a very different trip in a bus.
