Football Playoffs 2014

Sitting down  and trying to  figure out a bracket  for eight different divisions is not an easy job.  They have now  all types of formulas and the system works rather well.  There is one slight problem that is an easy fix only if someone would look.  There is no reason on earth that two teams from the same conference should have to play each other in the opening round.  It has happened again to the Big East but there are several other instances where conference foes face off in the opening round.

Fike the #2 seed in the 3AA East is set to play Hunt the #15 seed in the opening playoff game next Friday.  When ever a situation like this pops up why can't they either move Hunt to a #16 seed or up one and drop someone else from another conference to the 15 slot.  Seems simple to me but that requires someone to make an executive decision which it seems no one in Chapel Hill is willing to make.  It is not fair to either school to be put in this situation so early in the playoffs.  If both played someone else first and met in the second round I think both wouldn't mind that happening but this is not a fair shake for any teams playing other conference members in the opening round.  I think this is another example of too many teams in the playoffs.

Rocky Mount has drawn a # 9 seed in the 3A and they will meet a team they have met many times in the last 10 years Western Alamance.  WA is 9-2 while the Gryphons are 7-4.  Another  tough first game for the Big East number three Gryphons.  Second year in a row the Gryphons hit the road in the opening round.

Southern Nash is in 3-A and are seeded 4th and will play home against the 13th seed Burlington Williams.  Should SN win as a four seed they will get another home game on the 21st.

The 2-AA finds SouthWest Edgecombe  hosting as a six seed against North Brunswick 6-5 and a 12th seed.

Edgecombe County will send all three of their public high schools to the playoffs as Tarboro is a three seed in the 1-AA and host Hobbton who is 2-9

North Edgecombe is in the 1-A will is the fifth seed hosting Kestrel Heights 3-7.  They are a Prep school from Durham with over a thousand students so how North Edgecombe gets them who knows.

Rocky Mount Prep sporting a 2-9 record is in and they will travel to SE Halifax at 10-1.

Northern Nash as the Big east is out at 5-6 even though there are other 3-A teams 5-6 in the playoffs.

Need to go to the front page of the NCHSAA.org website there is an article on Nash-Rocky Mount athletic Director Angie Miller.  She is a member of the Board of director of the NCHSAA.