So who are they? Is Wake Forest going to do it again?
I don't have many area 4A teams but I do like South Caldwell and Lake Norman as sleeper teams. South Caldwell could be close to getting a 1st round home game and be much improved. Lake Norman had a very good JV team and much improved could have a 2018 Mooresville type of year. I could see them battling around 3rd or 4th in that brutal conference. Definitely not state contenders but dark horses yes
OK, thank you for your input!
I'm interested in seeing if power in the state has shifted to the Raleigh area. Another State title from that area would be very impressive.
That said, Mecklenburg is a brutal Butler, Hough, Mallard Creek and Myers Park just to name a few. Then yo have Vance and North Mecklenburg that can make things tough for Hough and Mallard in just that conference. A rising West Charlotte also in that conference.
No matter what is happening up in the Wake area, Charlotte-Mecklenburg is still the toughest overall with a number of conyenders here.
I don't have all of my notes, but here's a list of teams that are on my radar (in no particular order):
4AA:
Mallard Creek
Vance
Hough
Myers Park
Wake Forest
Leesville Road
Richmond County
Among these teams, I don't see one team significantly better than the rest. Leesville Road vs. Wake Forest, should these two teams meet in the playoffs, might be a great game. I would love for Richmond County to be sent to the East as it would give the 4AA East regional 3 legitimate title contenders.
As always, 4AA West will be loaded.
4A:
East Forsyth
Scotland
Cardinal Gibbons
Page
Pine Forest
Seventy-First
South View
East Forsyth should be deemed a healthy favorite to win the 4A state championship. After East Forsyth, Page and Scotland are slightly stronger than the rest of the above-mentioned teams.
You'll have your notes. I have the old Database sitting on an internal server, no front-end to it. I'll dig the data for you today. it's taking far too much time to get it the old site running. I will but it may take more since GoDaddy doesn't really give me what I need to make that movement easy. 🙁
OK, looking at your teams on the 4AA radar...
Certainly Mallard Creek is a radar team, but have they fallen down in the contenders roll? They are in a tough conference, can they win that conference? Still a contender in my book; not a dark horse to win it all but maybe a slightly gray horse?
Hough, they have loaded and loaded up with players. If they don't win their conference... well someone else is playing some mighty good football. They have the Jimmy's and Joe's.
You listed another conference member of the previous two, Vance. State title runner-up last season; now they have a new head coach. So this brings questions to their situation.Loaded with talent, they will not be a pushover. But will they have the chemistry to make even a little run in the playoffs? And this conference doesn't end with good teams at Vance.
Myers Park, they have to be one of the favorites. They've been close and have a very talented group this year. One of the top-3 teams in the city of Charlotte, and have to be one of the top-5 in the state.
Wake Forest, can they do it again? They are the team to beat and until I see something that proves otherwise, have to be the main contender this year.
I'm with you on Richmond being in the East. I think it makes that side of the playoffs, better and at least a little more balanced. So many great teams in the West already, put more contenders in the East.
The 4AA simply doesn't have a huge favorite. I honestly believe 6 or 7 teams could prevail.
With 4A, totally different story. I listed 7 schools, but 3 schools are really on my watch list: East Forsyth, Page, and Scotland. These 3 teams might have a challenge from the other 4 schools I listed, but on paper and based on numerous variable, these are the teams to watch.
When Mooresville scrimmages Myers Park this Friday on 8/16/19 @ 9:00 pm I would imagine there could be a big turnout to see the QB Drake Maye of Myers Park. Mooresville fans usually brings a big turnout of fans.
Possibly but it is a scrimmage. Myers Park is loaded with talent. The more you think about them, the more you have to move them up the list of contenders, and they were already near the top.
I guess I was thinking with the other teams playing, the fans could hang around long enough to watch the QB play. Anyway some good scrimmages going on. I think South Iredell n Hickory will be a good matchup. But it is a scrimmage.
You know how High School fans are... see their team then move on.it would mostly be the non-school tied fans that would stick around. But I could be wrong.
That’s very true. Hard to say how many fans will be there but some good scrimmages will be going on. Hard to believe we are at that time of the year again.
yep that time of year again, and I'm not allowed to enjoy like I have years ago. 🙁
Myers Park does not have the bigs to contend for a State Championship. Vance is returning the entire Defense that shut them out the entire 2nd half with 3 carries for 6 yards rushing. Scrimmaging Asheville and playing MHS, Providence, Olympic and South Meck is not going to help them figure out who they are as a Team. They also lost players on the O Line. Wr's, DB's, RB's and QB's don't work without the bigs.
I think Myers Park scrimmaging against Charlotte Christian would be a better test. CC has South Meck in that first game.
