Way too early East top 10

[Tiger_Pride21]

1. East Duplin
2. James Kenan
3. Wallace Rose-Hill


4. Clinton
5. Northeastern
6. Whiteville
7. Princeton
8. Cummings
9. Hertford County
10. West Craven

 

[Loveboat]

Way out there but Whiteville plays Clinton and James Kenan in a welcome upgrade to our pre conference schedule. Those two games will give a good read on your rankings above.

 

[dogs79]

Clinton
Wallace Rose Hill
James Kenan
East Duplin
Northeastern

Whiteville
Princeton
Hertford County
Cummings
West Craven

 

[Dawg-on]

Clinton
Wallace Rose Hill
James Kenan
East Duplin
Hertford County

Whiteville
Princeton
Northeastern
Cummings
West Craven

Question….. how long has it been since wrh had 21 seniors…. Just curious

 

[Jjeffe8]

1. East Duplin
2. James Kenan
3. Wallace Rose-Hill


4. Clinton
5. Northeastern
6. Whiteville
7. Princeton
8. Cummings
9. Hertford County
10. West Craven

Clinton and wrh shud b at top

 

[ThaDifferentMan]

1 WRH
2 JK
3 Whiteville
4 Clinton
5 Hertford
6 ED
7 Northeastern
8 Princeton

After that doesn't matter

 

[Tiger_Pride21]

Way out there but Whiteville plays Clinton and James Kenan in a welcome upgrade to our pre conference schedule. Those two games will give a good read on your rankings above.

Do you know who y'all are playing before y'all play Jk and Clinton?

 

[dogs79]

Question….. how long has it been since wrh had 21 seniors…. Just curious

Don’t know, maybe 17. Is that how many we have next year.

 

[4th&Goal]

1. East Duplin
2. James Kenan
3. Wallace Rose-Hill


4. Clinton
5. Northeastern
6. Whiteville
7. Princeton
8. Cummings
9. Hertford County
10. West Craven

I think it will be Clinton, JK, and Wallace top 3 in any order

1. East Duplin
2. James Kenan
3. Wallace Rose-Hill


4. Clinton
5. Northeastern
6. Whiteville
7. Princeton
8. Cummings
9. Hertford County
10. West Craven

 

[Dawg-on]

Don’t know, maybe 17. Is that how many we have next year.

Yes as of now

 

[Otis1144]

I have no idea how good we will be. (West Craven,) But come conference time nobody will be as tough as our non conference schedule since we play 2 current State Champs!!

 

[BuckSweepSports910]

We will be ok……..lol

 

[Darkhorse04]

We will be ok……..lol

What you talking about? We will just be lucky to field a team next year.

 

[Oldway44]

1. Clinton
2. Tie WRH and JK.
4. Northeastern.
ED will fall in somewhere with the rest to start the season with Whiteville, West Craven, Princeton and Hertford.
Hertford should be higher but until they learn to play defense no.
ED should be getting fine tuned by the end of the year and will be a tough out.

 

[OldTDPass]

I don’t think East Duplin will be the best team in the East next year, but I think they deserve to be #1 until they lose or give a reason to not be #1. We do it for every other state champion. Just my 2 cents.

Wallace, James Kenan, Clinton, Northeastern will all be in the mix.

East Duplin will hang in there. Lots of holes to fill with a big senior class (with rings ) departing this season. I’m with oldway, we’ll be a tough out coming season’s end.

 

[BuckSweepSports910]

To start the 2023 season top 5 in the east should look like

1.ED
2.Wallace
3.Clinton
4.JK
5.Northeastern

Obviously bias but I believe Clinton will at a minimum be playing for Eastern Championship next year we return basically the entire team. Aslong as the injury bug stays away it’s going to be a very good year for the Darkhorses.

 

[dogs79]

East Duplin is 22 State Champion! Doesn’t mean they should be ranked #1 in 23. Ranking doesn’t mean anything on Friday nites anyway

 

[OldTDPass]

East Duplin is 22 State Champion! Doesn’t mean they should be ranked #1 in 23. Ranking doesn’t mean anything on Friday nites anyway

So how many times, in any sport, on any level, is the champion from the previous year not ranked top 3 or so? Just curious. You damn sure wouldn’t be able to tell Shelby, Reidsville, or Wallace folks any different if they had won.

Funny how everyone else gets that luxury. Not that I care that much as I clearly stated I didn’t think we would be the best team in the East. Just thinking out loud.

 

[dogs79]

So how many times, in any sport, on any level, is the champion from the previous year not ranked top 3 or so? Just curious. You damn sure wouldn’t be able to tell Shelby, Reidsville, or Wallace folks any different if they had won.

Funny how everyone else gets that luxury. Not that I care that much as I clearly stated I didn’t think we would be the best team in the East. Just thinking out loud.

Thought I heard y’all graduating 15 seniors that most played a big part in your run. Still , kudos to ED in 22. Y’all definitely earned it

 

[dogs79]

So how many times, in any sport, on any level, is the champion from the previous year not ranked top 3 or so? Just curious. You damn sure wouldn’t be able to tell Shelby, Reidsville, or Wallace folks any different if they had won.

Funny how everyone else gets that luxury. Not that I care that much as I clearly stated I didn’t think we would be the best team in the East. Just thinking out loud.

I didn’t think Shelby would repeat.Almost everyone else did. 21 was a special team. 22 wasn’t the same team

 

[Oldway44]

Thought I heard y’all graduating 15 seniors that most played a big part in your run. Still , kudos to ED in 22. Y’all definitely earned it

I don't think ED will repeat but they will be good by the end of the year. Going to take the coaches a while to get things figured out. But ED middle schools are by far the best I have seen in 10 years or so. Should be real good again soon. Plus I will never count our coaches out.

 

[tardog08]

My top 4 in the east,
1. WRH return a ton off this years team
2. Clinton
3. JK they may be as good as Clinton
4. Northeastern

honorable mention
ED lost a ton of players off this years team
Princeton
Whiteville

 

[Loveboat]

Do you know who y'all are playing before y'all play Jk and Clinton?

We've been opening with North Brunswick and West Brunswick then JK and Clinton.............

 

[daagoob]

One needs to look no further than to see where the posters who posted on this poll are from. I feel like I’m on Twitter back in 2020, I better go no further or I may get kicked out. SUPPRESSION

 

[ReidsvilleRam90]

I will second the notion that ranking means nothing. Many seasons the Rams have begun the year ranked far too high.

 

[dogs79]

One needs to look no further than to see where the posters who posted on this poll are from. I feel like I’m on Twitter back in 2020, I better go no further or I may get kicked out. SUPPRESSION

Your voice should be heard!

 

[Chopper747]

What you talking about? We will just be lucky to field a team next year.

This is like the "I hope we score" comment

 

[Chopper747]

East Duplin is 22 State Champion! Doesn’t mean they should be ranked #1 in 23. Ranking doesn’t mean anything on Friday nites anyway

Jealousy?

 

[Chopper747]

I didn’t think Shelby would repeat.Almost everyone else did. 21 was a special team. 22 wasn’t the same team

you were talking rematch all season, now you say this? Does not compute.


~Chipper

 

[dogs79]

you were talking rematch all season, now you say this? Does not compute.


~Chipper

I had went with Reidsville from west and didn’t buy in to your passing theory

 

[daagoob]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmE2LcDv-fi/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

[dogs79]

Jealousy?

Little bit but glad for ED community. We’ll knew around here ED was team to beat. Dogs rite there. ED and NewBern were great for the East

 

[Darkhorse04]

This is like the "I hope we score" comment

I do hope we score.

 

[Oldway44]

One needs to look no further than to see where the posters who posted on this poll are from. I feel like I’m on Twitter back in 2020, I better go no further or I may get kicked out. SUPPRESSION

How's this Goob?
1. Clinton
2. Tie. Northeastern, WRH. JK.
I do think your team is getting better on defense.

 

[dogs79]

Kerr (25)may be best the best back in the state next year. Should put him in #3 jersey for his senior year.

 

[daagoob]

How's this Goob?
1. Clinton
2. Tie. Northeastern, WRH. JK.
I do think your team is getting better on defense.

That would be more accurate than any other post. Our team returns almost everyone and definitely all our top players with the exception of #3.

 

[Oldway44]

That would be more accurate than any other post. Our team returns almost everyone and definitely all our top players with the exception of #3.

Y'all going to be in the hunt. As of now I just think Clinton is the team to beat in the east. Could be wrong though. An edit to this. If I was your coach I would be doing my best to get Tarboro on your schedule every year since they are closer to Northeastern.

 

[DogsRunItUp]

1. ED-champs until someone knocks them off
2. Clinton-should be very strong next year
3. WRH-JK tie

NE, West Craven, Princeton, Whiteville and all the others are a tier lower until they can prove to get over the hump. I’m not saying that any of these teams can’t do it but it has to be proven on the field

 

[Thegame033]

Yep that's pretty early predictions... Question though besides wrh,Ed, Kinston,s.lenior n.lenior and SWO who else does jk got next year... And who does Ed and wrh got next year?

 

[Darkhorse04]

Clinton does return ALOT of talent but so do a bunch of other teams. I’m excited about the upcoming season. Wish it was 08/01 tomorrow so practice could start.