i wouldnt say its big anywhere in the state... there are big areas... go to a broughton game and you will see

My junior year when we beat them like 70 -0 it was pitiful. Garner had at least 4-5 times as many people at that game. 3rd string played the whole 2nd half i think. Too funny.

11/21/2005 8:22:54 AM

The whole split playoff thing started because of what was happening in the smallest class, 1A. Schools with about 700 students were playing in the same class with schools that have 150-200 students. In 1A, subdividing the playoffs really made sense.

There were also some gripes in 4A, where some schools had nearly 3000 students while others were around 1600. This isn't as big a deal, but once the coaches got behind the 4A split, they ended up doing it in all 4 classes.

If they really had to go from 4 classes to 8, why not cut the size of each playoff bracket from 32 to 16, leaving the total number of playoff teams unchanged at 128, instead of doubling it to 256 (out of about 340)? But, the whole thing is about money; the NCHSAA gets 15% of the ticket money at each of the additional 128 games played under the new format, and that's a lot of money.

For the kids (and many of the coaches and communities), it's still about heart, school pride, and the love of the game, but for the state-level administration, it's increasingly about money, and that's sad.

11/21/2005 10:11:46 AM

I went to the Wakefield/Cary game tonight..

Wakefield came out on top 10-7

Their running back Matt Baugh got hurt early in the first quarter and only saw 1 more series of play after that. But when he was in, he was a difference maker. He came up gimpy on a long run so they sat him down.

Cary had a chance to win it. They had the ball on the Wakefield 30 with 1 minute to go.
On 2nd or 3rd down, instead of giving it to the person who had gotten them this far (Josh Adams), they gave it to the fullback and ran it right up the middle where he was stuffed and fumbled the ball..Game over.
Good game though.
If Wakefield wins next week, they advance to the championship game.

11/25/2005 11:19:17 PM

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"Mt. Tabor 7 Grimsley 20"

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay swirlies!

11/26/2005 12:40:00 AM

Probably the upset of the night was my old high school coach's current team...

Myers Park 22
Richmond County 13

11/26/2005 12:46:21 AM

Greenville Rose 35
Clayton 6

Go Rampants!

11/26/2005 12:55:49 AM

wow richmand county lost ....

11/26/2005 1:34:35 AM

Shelby 23
East Rutherford 20 in OT!

What an amazing high school football game! Next up, Forest Hills...

11/26/2005 2:13:52 AM

yeah....everyone was looking forward to a Richmound Co/Independence match up next week in the semifinals...
I think even Richmond got caught looking ahead a little bit.

11/26/2005 7:36:18 AM

Western Alamance 34
NE Guilford 17


Avenges our only loss of the season!! Up next an undefeated Rocky Mount team.

11/26/2005 10:35:31 AM

Charlotte Catholic 20 (13-0)
Kernersville Glenn 7 (12-2)

CCHS has had a great year so far, especially for being a buncha whities

[Edited on November 26, 2005 at 4:31 PM. Reason : ]

11/26/2005 4:30:47 PM

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"yeah....everyone was looking forward to a Richmound Co/Independence match up next week in the semifinals... I think even Richmond got caught looking ahead a little bit. "

absolutly agree

11/26/2005 4:34:09 PM

^^^GOOO WESTERN!!!!

11/27/2005 10:46:39 AM

That's a bit disappointing that Richmond lost...I had been planning for several weeks to attend the Richmond-Indy game, and possibly see the end of "The Streak".

11/27/2005 10:55:31 AM

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"wow richmand county lost ...."

Any truth to the prolly bullshit rumor I heard that they fired or will their coach because of that loss?

11/27/2005 11:19:33 AM

to re-state because i've been away for my pc for four days, and really just because i want to,

Rockingham, N.C.-

MYERS PARK MUSTANGS 22, previously undefeated #1 Richmond County Raiders, 13

- the cinderella run continues into the final four of the state, we face independence next week in mint hill

haha, we're screwed

11/27/2005 5:57:25 PM

^^ I know absolutely nothing about the school and I can almost certainly assure you that's bullshit.

11/27/2005 6:07:48 PM

i thought this was gonna be the year that RC beat ind

11/27/2005 7:09:40 PM

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"39) E. Carteret (12-0) by 6 at N. Johnston (13-0)"

oops...yea, North won 17-0

11/27/2005 7:19:17 PM

I covered that game. NJ has a fantastic team this year, probably one of the best 1-A groups I've ever seen.

11/27/2005 7:26:18 PM

alright baby, we're going for the Hoosiers-style win tonight

those MYERS PARK MUSTANGS are on the road at the buzzsaw that is Independence High School, the winner gets a trip to carter-finley stadium and the state finals

so far,

#12 MPHS 35, #5 Providence 21
#12 MPHS 21, #4 Vance 14
#12 MPHS 22, #1 Richmond Senior 13

hopefully cinderella will still be stylin' and profilin' after tonight is all said and done

GO MUSTANGS!!!

12/2/2005 9:36:55 AM

if myers park beats indy ... hell hath frozen over and we need not worry, the end is near

12/2/2005 11:07:59 AM

Good luck to North hampton west tonite they are quite nasty this year, they have a great offensive line and two damn good running backs.

12/2/2005 6:35:45 PM

i heard a shelby crest player was found ineligible, thus allowing grimsley to go to the state finals...i hate to be that guy

12/2/2005 9:46:25 PM

I heard Charlotte Catholic 21, AL Brown 3. I saw online Charlotte Catholic 28, AL Brown 3. Either way CC is heading to the finals again to try for the repeat....and 32 games in a row. Come on Indy lose!!

12/2/2005 10:27:04 PM

so myers park got hammered tonight, 48-14, and the run is over

they showed knotts walking off the field at halftime with the pats up 31-7, and he says, "they thought this was gonna be a game." I, being one of the optimistic "they", was naturally insulted, and proceeded to yell back at the screen, saying things like, "they thought you'd be able to coach at the collegiate level, jackass."

the end

but gg mustangs for making it the furthest you have in 40 years

12/2/2005 10:37:51 PM

(2) Charlotte Catholic 28, (4) Kannapolis Brown 3

Hell Yea! My boys got a lot of heart back home to get a win like this over AL Brown. tickets were sold out way in advance and ppl were scalping them thats a first for our school!!!

12/2/2005 10:44:42 PM

Greenville Rose 56
Lee County 0

haha....wow, I was thinking the semis were going to be close!

PLUS, Andre Brown was on the sidelines

12/2/2005 11:34:46 PM

another reason rose should be playing in the 4AA

12/2/2005 11:41:16 PM

supposidly they almost got a 4AA bid, but I don't think they are big enough to be classified as a 4AA

12/2/2005 11:46:24 PM

Western Alamance beat Rocky Mount tonight...I was out there freezing to watch our stellar defensive performance...we had more fuas than they did and it was in Rocky Mount...Final score 30-10...now comes Asheville...

Bo Jordan is an awesome QB by the way...I grew up with his sister...

[Edited on December 3, 2005 at 12:23 AM. Reason : go warriors]

12/3/2005 12:22:47 AM

I was at that Western Alamance game as well since I have a parent who teaches at Western and I coach the JV volleyball team at Western and IT WAS FREAKING COLD. Rocky Mount had a 1000 yard rusher on their team and we held him to 7 yards. In fact the paper said we held them to less than 10 yards rushing in the 2nd half all together. But that was because of a few QB sacks that brought the total down. Durham here we come!!!!

[Edited on December 3, 2005 at 8:49 AM. Reason : ]

12/3/2005 8:47:39 AM

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"i heard a shelby crest player was found ineligible, thus allowing grimsley to go to the state finals...i hate to be that guy"

ya heard right...

this is how it went down

the shelby players were on the bus ready to leave. The coach gets on the bus and tells everyone to get off the bus because they weren't going.

12/3/2005 8:57:50 AM

^Actually, that was Crest. Shelby, on the other hand, beat Forest Hills 21-7 to move on to the State Championship next week!

12/3/2005 10:42:37 AM

n/m

[Edited on December 3, 2005 at 11:13 AM. Reason : ?]

12/3/2005 11:13:00 AM

is north going to states?

12/3/2005 1:16:17 PM

North Johnston? They got beat down last night, 50-19. They played about as bad as I've seen them play all year, and Wallace-Rose Hill looked as good as anybody I've seen in several years. Wallace has a linebacker, Nate Irving, who's coming here next year. He looks nice.

12/3/2005 1:31:34 PM

damn that sucks, how bad did clayton lose to rose?

12/3/2005 1:32:42 PM

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"Greenville Rose 56 Lee County 0 haha....wow, I was thinking the semis were going to be close! PLUS, Andre Brown was on the sidelines "

I was at that game and it was fucking sad. and it was FREEZING we had to leave at halftime when it was 28-0. Lee County's running back b4 the game said "how good can they be with a name like 'Rose'?"

then he sucked, fumbled, did stupid shit, etc.


championship game next saturday at carter-finley woo.

12/3/2005 3:28:04 PM

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay swirlies here's to the impossible!

12/3/2005 8:05:32 PM

I work with the starting fullback's father from Grimsley. He said he was going to wear a suit to the State championship next week.

12/3/2005 9:09:59 PM

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"how good can they be with a name like 'Rose'?"

Famous last words, eh?

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"damn that sucks, how bad did clayton lose to rose?"

35-6. It wasn't as close as it looks.

[Edited on December 3, 2005 at 11:30 PM. Reason : ?]

12/3/2005 11:28:48 PM

Yeah supposidly Lee County talked trash in the paper the week before the game. They questioned Rose's defense, and how they weren't physical, and how they thought they could run all over Rose.....after the final whistle, Lee County only had 115 TOTAL yards

12/5/2005 12:12:41 AM

oh yay, new bern's in the final... again...

against independence... again...

gonna get stomped... again...

12/5/2005 6:53:40 AM

Independence 52
New Bern 20

12/5/2005 11:16:41 AM

what do you know..thomasville is back in it again. I love my high school. LEts see if we win that will make a boys and girls state championship, a soccer championship, and another football championship(we won last year too) all in less than a year. Oh and we beat murphy alst week 40-6 i believe....bring it wallace-rose

12/5/2005 12:38:36 PM

^^ was that the game with Leak, or the one the year later... i seem to recall that being similar to the score against Leak...

12/5/2005 10:17:27 PM

Thomasville has no easy game; this years WRH team is better than the 2004 version. I see this as being perhaps the best of all the championship games.

12/6/2005 1:18:24 PM

CLASS 1-A
Elkin 42, Northampton-West 12

Class 2-A
Clinton 13, Lincolnton 6

Class 3-A
Asheville 13, Western Alamance 10

Class 4-A
J.H. Rose 21, Greensboro Grimsley 0

12/10/2005 6:22:23 PM

Anybody got the latest on the Catholic Burlington game?

12/10/2005 6:31:23 PM