Interesting but Howard wont get anywhere near the championship game. Nash Central had a strong finish. I think they are a program on the rise. They should have beaten S Nash and Louisburg too and finished 6-4. That might have helped Warren County out a little. Lol. We scheduled up and still got punished in the RPI.
Mitchell and Cherokee are very similar, I’d give a slight edge to Cherokee with their skill kids. We were really banged up at Mitchell but I agree, still could’ve won.
Just curious. Edenton Holmes played up as well in each of its non-conference games and its only loss was a 1 point loss to Northeastern who is the number one seed in the East in 3A. Are you saying they didn’t deserve the 2 seed?
Playing up shouldn't be weighted for two reasons: Having a larger student body doesn't mean you have a better football team. And the other and more important reason is because if it was weighted, it wouldn't work. How? It'll only benefit the smaller schools. If a 2A school tried to schedule a 5A school, it'll only benefit the 2A school. No larger school would agree to schedule a smaller school. Margin of victory shouldn't matter either. The goal is to win the game. You only need to win by 1. They'll still give you the trophy if you win by one point. Besides, the institution of running clocks makes it impossible.
If you are a good team in the 2A East it really doesn't matter your seed as long as you are not the #4 seed which would in most year end up playing Tarboro. #2 and #3 seeds are going to play the only real difference is home field.
As did we. Gibby is one of the best in the mountains and our leader. You can laugh all you want, if we played now, it wouldn’t be close.
I will say that Nash Central had one of the toughest non conference schedules in the state, followed by one of the easiest conference schedules in the state. What is a 4A/3A/2A conference anyway lol. What does it prove when a 4A school wins it? Do the 2A schools even have a chance? It's weird lol. I'm not sure running through that means anything about Nash Central, other than they were one of the bigger schools.
Understood. I really only had Nash Central's conference as a reference. It's not impressive.
Edenton had an excellent regular season. Im not taking anything away from them. I just feel like ours was slightly better. Edenton played one good team, Pasquotank and destroyed them. Impressive. They played one excellent team and lost in a very tight game. No shame in that. We played one 6A, two 5A and two 4A schools in the nonconference. None of those teams are great but we dominated them all. We outscored our opponents 444-12 with 9 consecutive shutouts, something that hasnt been done since 1971. Its not so much what Edenton hasnt done so much as what we have done. Simmons has had us ranked over Edenton all season although his final regular season ranking hasnt come out. So it not just my opinion. But like I said there isnt much separation among the top 3 seeds in the East. Honestly all three could make a case for #1.
Its funny you say that about these conferences with teams in different classifications. Mostly it has worked out but with Northern Nash it seems kind of unfair. The smaller schools in that conference all seem to be playing for second place every year. With 8 classifications though Im not thinking anything can be done about things like that.
I see your point about larger schools not wanting to schedule smaller ones but you could make it a factor without making it a huge factor. You still have many other factors to balance it out. I think the impact on scheduling would be minimal. Proximity and gate drive scheduling more than RPI. Vance will never stop playing us because its the biggest gate for both teams other than maybe homecoming. And I disagree with you about margin of victory. If two teams play a similar schedule and one team wins all its games by 30 and the other wins them all by 1 you dont think thats significant? But like I said before, the current system is better than the previous. I just hope they keep tweaking it to get it right.
Youre right. If youre the better team you just have to do what's necessary to win. I might be more upseet that I have to travel that far. Lmao.
