NCHSAA Relents

Depending on how much flooding you may have had in 1999 or 2016 if you flooded in 99 or 16 that will depend for you which storm was worse. 1999 Floyd hit in September so in some cases three non conference games were wiped out.  Matthew hit in October right in the middle of conference play and conference determine who makes the Playoffs so in football's case Matthew hit at the wrong time.

Since so many schools east of use remain closed because that school might be a shelter or roads to get to the school are blocked in all directions where you can't even get there yet. Many schools east of us may not go at all this week.  With all of this in mind the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has extended the football season one extra week which will now end on November 11th instead of the fourth.

Extending the season an extra week will allow the Big East to drop the three games in eight days format which was schedule to start this Friday night.  The games that were to be played on the 25th will now be played on Thursday night November 10th.  This will create the natural finishing games every season the Northern Nash at  Rocky Mount, Southern Nash at Nash Central and Hunt at Fike they now be the next to last game of the season.  It also eliminates that Rocky Mount at Southern Nash the game everyone expects to determine the conference champion will not be the third game in that eight days.

The Big East football will now finish the season on November 10th with these games Rocky Mount at Hunt, Fike at Nash Central and Southern Nash at Northern Nash.  The football seedings will come out on the 12th and the first playoff game on the 18th, second round 25th, third round December 2nd, fourth Round 9th and the state championship 16th and 17th one week later than scheduled.  Because the sites were not schedule for the 16th and 17th the state chsmpionship sites are up in the air right now.

There is a major schedule conflict by moving the state championships to the 17th.  That is the day the North Caroina/ South Carolina Shrine Bowl game is scheduled.  It really is not much of a problem for most of the players who will play in the game because most will already be knocked out of the playoffs and will be available for the game.  If you are scheduled to play and your team is in the state championship games which one would you want to play in.  I would suspect 10 to 15 players on the North Carolina roster could be effected that day.

Women's Tennis indivual playoffs will start with regional starting in October 21st and 22nd.  The State chsmpionship will be October 28th and 29th..  Team first round starts Oct 25th-November 1st- November 3rd, a Regionsl Nivember 9th and State championship Nivember 12th

Volleyball seeding will come out on the 25th, first round October 26th, 2nd round October 27th, 3rd November 1st  fourth November 3rd and State Championship Nivember 5th.

Soccer seeding November 3rd.  First round November 5th, 2nd round November 8th, third November 10th, 4th November 12th and regional November 15th and state chsmpionship November 19th

Cross Country playoffs are as regularly scheduled.

Should your school make it all the was to state championship  football game is basketball who may start season without their full team.

This Weather Perdicament Who's Advantage

This weather is nothing new.  Basketball has had to play up to four games in order to catch up the schedule.  Just last spring baseball had almost three weeks without practice or games.  During Hurricane Floyd  Several teams lost three non conference games in 1999.   This is  a new experience for football playing three games in eight days.  There has been many times when a rainout has caused a Monday/Friday two game week.

When this begins on October 21st there will be three teams that will have 1-0 conference records at the start.  Northern Nash will be the only team that already knows what it will take to survive three games in eight days.  Will that be an advantage for them having already lived through this experience?

Here's what's ahead for the Big East.  First Northern Nash.  Friday the 21st they host Nash Central
0-1.  Tuesday 25th host Southern Nash 1-0 and on the 28th travel to Fike 0-1.

Southern Nash host Hunt 0-1 next Friday 21st.  They are on the road to Northern Nash 1/0 on the 25th and on the 28th host Rocky Mount 1-0.

Rocky Mount has Homecoming against Fike 0-1 on the 21st.  A visit to Hunt 0-1 on the 25th and they finish up on the 28th at Southern Nash 1-0.

Of those three that are tied for the lead now Northern Nash has two of the three games at home.  Southern Nash two and Rocky Mount only one.  Both Northern and Rocky Mount play two games that lost  their first conference where Southern Nash gets both Northern and Rocky Mount in this three game stretch.

Since this three games in eight  days effects everyone what is the three games for the three teams that stand 0-1.  Hunt 0-1 travels to Southern Nash on the 21st, host Rocky Mount on the 25th and finish their three game sprint at Nash Central 0-1. So Hunt gets  two of the heavy weights.

Fike 0-1 begins the 21st at Rocky Mount 1-0, the 25th at Nash Central 0-1 and finish off their venture
hosting Northern  Nash 1-0.  Fike has two of the heavy weights.

Nash Central 0-1 will travel to Northern Nash on the 21st. They will host Fike on the 25th and Hunt comes to Central on the 28th.  So Nash Central has only one of the heavy weights in this stretch.

So who has the advantage in the next 11 days.  60% of the conference schedule will be in those upcoming days.  This conference could be turned upside down by just one injury this Friday by any teams best player who might be out for just one week and that would be two games missed instead of one.  There is no doubt that this is the uncharted territory for every team when conference games were involved.  This would be a bad time for any team to have a bad week.