Big East Football Or Basketball Conference ?

This spring is the end of the sixth year of the Big East high school  conference with Fike and Hunt from Wilson County joining the four  high schools for Nash County.  Talk will begin soon on the next realignment which will occur when the school year for 17/18 starts.  The Big East is  perfect as far as the how far are your  away games.  I think every conference needs at least eight teams but looking at who could fit the profile of the Big East then more travel is needed to enlarge the conference to eight.

Six years ago I don't think anybody would have voted if you had to choose Is the Big East going to be better in Football or Basketball I think the vote would have been 80% football.  Surely that has not proven to be the case as we look back at the Big East history in both.

2009 the first year of the Big East the BE went 4-2 in the football playoffs with Southern Nash playing in the Eastern finals.  A long the way Southern had to knock off Hunt in the second round which gave the conference a 4-2 overall playoff record.  Basketball saw Rocky Mount win the state championship and the conference over all was 7-2 in the basketball playoffs.

2010 saw the BE going 4-3 in the playoffs but Nash Central had to play Hunt the first round which took away a BE win but it also saved a loss to someone else in the playoffs.  Hunt lost in the regional finals.  Basketball saw the conference go 5-4 and Rocky Mount made it to the regional losing in the semi finals.

2011 saw a BE tangled in the second round which took away a win and a loss but 4-3 was the record with Hunt losing in the East Regional.  Over on the basketball side Rocky Mount won the big enchilada  for the second time in three years and over all the conference went 7-2 and along the way Nash Central had to face Rocky Mount.

2012 BE football sent Hunt to the regional final game again but they started out the playoffs facing Southern Nash.  The conference was 2-2 against all others.   Basketball was 5-3 but Nash Central collided with Hunt in a first round tango.  Rocky Mount lost in the semi finals of the regional.

2013  Hunt won the regional and played in the state championship game to give the conference four wins but no one else had a win to give the league a 4-4 playoff record. Basketball went 6-2 with Hunt winning the regional and playing in the big game.

2014  Football featured Fike and Hunt in an opening round playoff game and no team made it past the second round giving the league a 2-2 playoff record.  Basketball sent Hunt to the Regional final so the basketball league was 4-5 in this years playoffs.

So is this a football league or basketball league.  Five of the six years of the Big East football has had a team in the regional Final winning once.  Basketball has made it to the Regional final four of six years and twice won the state crown.

It is my opinion that the Big East is an excellent football league but at this point two state basketball titles trumps 0 football titles.  The Big East is a basketball league.  What is proven by both sports the Big East is the best football and basketball league in the East.  9 out of 12 regional final games in six year has had a Big East Team.  No other league comes close.