I think Pender is going to be a solid test if we meet - but it’s so hard to tell.
But...all we hear over here is how east football is weak with no competition because Tarboro is always winning, yet out west we already know before the season that it'll be Murphy, Robbinsville, Mitchell, or Mount Airy. Yes, I know that 4 is greater than 1, but surely there are more than 4 teams out west that play football. How can these teams be the cream of the crop for being on top every year, but when it comes to Tarboro's success, it's due to the fact that the east doesn't have good competition?
West has 4 teams that can win it and East just one every year.....hmmmm I think you answered your own ?????
Tarboro wins state championships also tho. It's not like they blow thru the east and gets thumped in the ship every year. There is no doubt that the east is weak, losing plymouth to consolidation, Holmes and WRH to 2a, and Eastern Randolph going west didn't help the fact any. But in the end it doesn't matter how the playoffs get changed by the NCHSAA, the usual suspects are there in the end.
Whole time reading this I was doing my best skip Bayless impression and saying hmmm
True, but Eastern Randolph would’ve been 2A if they had been in the East. Compare their ‘realignment score’ of 517.51 to Ayden-Grifton (488.945), Goldsboro (447.463), and a few other 2A East schools. The whole system of classifying East and west separately didn’t help parity any in the East.
I was looking for the list of 1A and 2A “realignment scores“ the other day and could no longer find them anywhere on the NCHSAA site. Most all of the other numbers are there. Can you help me with that?
The difference is with no competition for Tarboro they get to play their underclassmen all season preparing them for when it’s their turn
A couple more games and we will show you what living in the head means
How about you worry about robbinsville first instead of little ol tarboro. Sad to know we living in your head rent free
I'm kinda convinced he is. I haven't seen any true Murphy fan talk like that.
And you helped solidify my point. I acknowledged that 4 is greater than 1, but it's not that much more. Just seems like people act as if the west has so much more competition from top to bottom. Is there anyone other than those same 4 over and over again? Using the logic of west supporters, it doesn't seem like competition out west is so much better than out east. If it's said that the east has 1 team and the rest are scrubs, then why isn't it said that the west has 4 teams and the rest are scrubs?
How did you come up with that theory? Lol Tarboro has a JV team. Underclassmen very rarely play on varsity unless there are lack of numbers. Todd Gurley didn’t even play varsity until his junior year.
Can’t wait. It’ll be an honor to just be able to line up against a team from the mighty deep west even though we will have no shot.
I know man judging by all the comments I see on here we have no shot against the mighty West. But coming from this viking fan I like our chances we are peaking at the right time
You know if you're going to hate on tarboro at least have some facts first. Tarboro has a JV team underclassmen rarely start unless our numbers are severely low. Todd Gurley didn't even start as a sophomore.
1A teams don’t have that luxury in the smc a lot of sophomores and even some freshman play a lot of minutes on the starting team
Mountain Heritage had a down year this year and it was expected, but teams better look out the next few years. They will definitely be in the mix in the west.
So you mean to tell me no SMC team has a JV team?? Well call me surprised cause a lot of school's in the East have JV teams
JV in the east is very different then freshman and sophomores. Usually if you are a sophomore starting on varsity your really good. I always figured teams in the west notably SMC teams had similar JV programs.
He is right on that. SMC play a old school junior high setup of mostly 8 and 9 graders. All 10 move straight to varsity. 7th graders either play rec league or the JH team.
1a don’t have the numbers to play that way here
I'm surprised more school systems don't do that. First I've heard of any program doing that nowadays
I think the Mitchell conference just switched to it this year. Maybe one of them will chime in on how it went. Smc been doing it ever since I came around.
We did because of numbers. Only Mitchell and Mt. Heritage could field a true JV team of 9th and 10th graders.
