1. Tarboro
2. Pender
3. Northampton County
4. Mitchell
5. Northside-Pinetown
2. Pender
3. Northampton County
4. Mitchell
5. Northside-Pinetown
Is the East really a cakewalk?
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I mean no disrespect to Mitchell but Northampton and Pender were both bigger and faster.
It’s always usually the case. Til Northampton gets rolled in the championship.
I believe the "1A East is weak" talk comes from previous years play of teams in the split classifications, where teams like Robbinsville and Murphy consistently played in the 1A where the eastern teams were considerably weaker than the 1AA teams like Tarboro, Holmes, and Princeton.
Just wait until you meet an outstanding west team. Although Mitchell was great this year and they were the best team in the west, they are not what I would consider a great representation of a typical title contending west team.
The bad thing is, that wasn’t a typical Tarboro team.
You can stop now! We’ve said all year this was a down year for us, so you can say this isn’t the typical west contender, we can and have been saying the same thing all year, that we were down this year for us. Our staff did a tremendous job with this team
Pender, North Hampton or Tarboro would’ve won the championship ship this year imo
North Hampton..lol.
I've watched football for almost 60 years and North Hampton had the worst coaching staff and softest players I have ever witnessed..Anywhere
I've watched football for almost 60 years and North Hampton had the worst coaching staff and softest players I have ever witnessed..Anywhere
You didn’t see them this year. All those boys y’all played 19 were freshmen
Then it’s a moot point. You’ve not seen our best and we’ve not seen yours
And we are champs, again!
7 titles in 14 years, 10 title games, I guess we only see the best of the west when we come up short?
got it, either way, I’ll gladly take our 7 titles in 14 years
7 titles in 14 years, 10 title games, I guess we only see the best of the west when we come up short?
got it, either way, I’ll gladly take our 7 titles in 14 yearsTarboro was down from years past but this was the weakest west I've seen as far as top end teams go, literally ever. A lot of solid football teams in the west this year but no great teams. I said as much before the playoffs even got going. I thought Eastern Randolph might have met the criteria before playoffs began but after how Murphy handled them, that wasn't the case.
As far as the 1A East being weak, I always gave Edenton credit during Tarboro's run, they were legit, but outside of them most years it was just literally Tarboro once Wallace Rose Hill and a few other good eastern teams moved up to 2A in 2017. I think generally speaking the 1A west is much deeper than the 1A east, not sure that's even really debatable.
I also think football is a game of matchups, Mitchell proved that they were the best team in the 1A west this year no doubt about it, but I do think there were other one or two western teams that had they played Tarboro today, could have given Tarboro a better game.
As far as the 1A East being weak, I always gave Edenton credit during Tarboro's run, they were legit, but outside of them most years it was just literally Tarboro once Wallace Rose Hill and a few other good eastern teams moved up to 2A in 2017. I think generally speaking the 1A west is much deeper than the 1A east, not sure that's even really debatable.
I also think football is a game of matchups, Mitchell proved that they were the best team in the 1A west this year no doubt about it, but I do think there were other one or two western teams that had they played Tarboro today, could have given Tarboro a better game.
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Y’all are really good. I think when that image developed was in little 1a. Little 1a was dominated by the west for the exception of a few Plymouth teams. We played wrh in 2015 no one ever thought the 1aa East was a cake walk. But a lot of those teams moved up. Y’all are the only ones left really
Yeah yeah. It’s mighty convenient that the talk all week was that Mitchell was going to “run Tarboro” and I saw a post last week that said “the state championship game was Robbinsville and Mitchell” - but now the talk is that the west was down this year.
Congrats to Tarboro. Their posters have all been classy and behaved like saints having to listen to all the hoopla from everyone this year. Hope to play some games against them in the future.
I remember a poster saying all Mitchell does is run the quarterback dive up and down the field. Well it beat us all out in the west so what does that say about how we played? The best two teams represented and the best team won. These are kids playing a game. It's amazing to be able to keep everyone focused every game throughout a championship run. Every game you win you deserved it and Mitchell should be proud to have represented the west as well. There's no shame in that.
I remember a poster saying all Mitchell does is run the quarterback dive up and down the field. Well it beat us all out in the west so what does that say about how we played? The best two teams represented and the best team won. These are kids playing a game. It's amazing to be able to keep everyone focused every game throughout a championship run. Every game you win you deserved it and Mitchell should be proud to have represented the west as well. There's no shame in that.
You're barking up the wrong tree man, I never said any of those things. Personally I thought Tarboro was the favorite because they've been there and done that and I really thought Mitchell's M.O. offensively really played into Tarboro's strengths. Did I think it would be a tighter game than it ended up being? Yes, but credit to Tarboro.
So you think the talk all week was Mitchell would beat Tarboro? Some may have thought/hoped that...but some of us out west knew there wasn't a real good team in the mountains. Try not to take the posts of one or two and assume that's the way all feel. Congrats on the Championship..well deserved.
Proud of this group of Mountaineers. We (Mitchell) fans knew this would be a tall task. Tarboro played a great game and won the line of scrimmage which is most of the time the determining factor. Congratulations again to the Vikings.
I understand that, but the majority of predictions this week on here were Mitchell over Tarboro.
Like I said in a post earlier, Murphy and Tarboro need to meet up in the title game one of these years. “Good” Murphy teams have the style, toughness, coaching, speed, and talent to throw at Tarboro. Might be enough, might not, but we gotta find out one of these years!
Maybe...but also the majority thar I discussed it with felt Tarboro should win. Most thought it would have been closer than it actually turned out.
I bet my whole banking account North Hampton would’ve smacked whatever 1A team you cheer for!!
This was definitely one of the weaker teams that’s won a championship. Not from them not being good but from them being young. They only had 9 seniors on that team & two of them didn’t play all season. I don’t see them losing a game for the next two years imo. That’s a bold statement but I’m pretty sure they’ll back it up
First time I have seen Mitchell since they played Wallace Rose Hill 2015. Mitchell offense really didn't show me much except for 1 drive when the QB 30 yard run and a couple plays later a personal foul against Tarboro lead to Mitchell only score. I have watched several Tarboro games over the years and I have always enjoyed following Tarboro since 1984. Congratulations, to Tarboro for the winning the State Title. And Congratulations to Mitchell for a great season.
The East this year was very competitive in my opinion. But I got to ask I do find it very funny how certain posters on here not all said that Mitchell was going to walk all over tarboro. And now that Mitchell lost those same certain posters are saying oh well the West had a down year 
You went from Mitchell was going to walk all over tarboro to the West is weak
Bingo. Noticed alot bandwagon mountain fans and Robbinsville fans specifically with the most mouth. For whatever reason everyone ignored Tarboro and the rest of the east.
But yeah, the East always produced great teams from what I remembered. Was hoping to hear more about 1A East since joining the board. Too many mountain boys pretending to be Shelby and Reidsville.
Yeah I've noticed for whatever reason tarboro Is hated by certain robbinsville posters. Idk what we did to them. You could have easily made the argument that the East was weak the last couple of years aside from us and edenton. But in my opinion you cannot make that case this year.
Dude…
It ain’t just y’all that they don’t like…