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big changes in nw4a

It looks like we are in for some big changes in the nw4a after next year. Crest was coming back but that may not happen and burke county has announced plans to build two new high schools which would drop freedom and east burke out. Burke would have one 3a school and two 2a programs. Reynolds is also trying to leave and that may put mcdowell in a split conference or send them past hickory to stay in 4a.It's going to get interesting to see how it shapes up.

 

It's gonna be a while before Burke County gets their new schools, but for those who don't already know the Burke County School Board has all but approved the future need of 2 new High Schools in Burke County, each school averaging from 800-1,200 students. That plan was approved instead of building one new bigger school. From what I hear, one of the schools would consist mainly of people who currently attend Freedom. Freedom has over 2,300 kids, and if this new school has anywhere from 800-1,000 students, it would probably leave Freedom big enough to stay in the 4A Classification. You have to consider, Morganton is still a growing area, and even with new schools, Freedom will get new people. Now East Burke will be the one that may go down a classification due to their being new schools built in the county. East Burke has approx 1,800 students. But once again, this would be quite a few years away, so it's nothing of immediate concern.

 

There were a lot of fans at SC also wondering why Silver was on the refs so bad. I mean he was getting all the calls last night. With about a minute to go in the first half the foul total was 7-1 in favor of Mcdowell. This was probablly the worst officiated game I have seen this year and I never complain about officiating because it usually evens itself out over the game. Shoot if I had been Silver I would have just kept my mouth shut. Do I think the refs determined who the winner would be ,NO! But the game would have been a good close game if it had been called a little more fairly. The game was tied at 25 each with only a minute or so left in the first half and Mcdowell ran off 6 or 8 points and SC never could catch back up. I do think the offciating took them out of their game moreso than did Mcdowell. I'm not whinning over the refs here just telling it like it was. As I stated I still think Mcdowell would have won if the game good called game as are most of the games

 

According to the people at ACR we aren't going anywhere, we like the 4A competition and have no desire to leave the NW4A conference!

 

Well, I didn't see any language, and I certainly couldn't hear any in that hole, but whatever you say. I hope they get tougher!

 

ReynoldsRocks....Dont be sure of that. Its looking that Smoky Mountain and East Henderson are going back to 2A and Ive heard some folks at Reynolds will petition the NCHSAA to return to the MAC and reform a split conference, citing long travel times. Pansies if they go through with this.

 

Tony, Realignment will not take place until the end of the 2004-2005 school year and Crest would begin play in 2005-2006. And from talk with Dr. Dan DeHart, Freedom High principal, and Dr. David Burleson, Superintendent, the new schools will not be ready by the time Realignment comes around due to the planning procedures and construction. The talk is right now that the new schools could be ready by the start of the 2006-2007 year. The size of the schools would be slightly bigger than Walter Johnson Middle School.

Just curious, anybody got any ideas of the names of the new schools?

 

Well, this is coming from a VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY reliable source I talked to at the b-ball game Thursday night when we played Watauga at home. I am not going to mention any names, but I know my sources are VERY accurate.

 

reynolds not leaving?

I hope reynolds stays in the nw4a at least for 1 year after crest comes back in. I would love to see those two football programs go at it. But I heard from a strong source that crest was headed to the sw conference and reynolds was copping out to the mac.

 

bad calls?

I guess south caldwell drawed some refs that would call all the push off fouls south caldwell got away with at mcdowell. Thats what happens some nights,just ask the mcdowell boys ,they couldn't breath on east burke without getting whistled.