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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
I have at least a partial answer: Burlington is in the same conference with Cristo Rey. Check the CCAC (Central Carolina Athletic Conference) . They have to play each other twice this year so that'll be double the fun. |
LOL. When I made the post, which I already felt was too long, I considered, but decided not to get into clarifying that bit because I said to myself "nah...no one will look into it that deeply." I should've known you would.
{tips cap} Here's the deal,
Burlingon Christian Academy, which is in their conference, ain't the same as
the Burlington School.
(Caldwell has both of them on the schedule this year.) TBS played freaking
Combine Academy on Friday and only lost by four. (Caldwell lost by 14 to Combine last night.) Burlington Christian Academy is also on Cristo Rey's schedule, but listed as BCA.
Cristo Rey is also playing Westchester Country Day, a school in our conference that is another good 30 minutes west of us, so probably close to a 2-hour drive for Cristo Rey. Westchester isn't at Caldwell's level, but based on history and what I saw on Tuesday, Westchester is fully capable of a 100-20 kinda score against them.
To be clear, though, the Caldwell game was downright uncomfortable to watch after just 3-4 minutes, and if this year is anything like last year, TBS's worst five is gonna be wayyyyy better than Caldwell's worst five. They'll need to do a running clock or it'll get significantly uglier than 103-11.
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Plus, with just a 4 team "conference" and a schedule that only has 14 games listed (per MaxPreps, which can sometimes be incomplete), maybe this is a case of finding games wherever they can find them period? Neither of those smaller teams you mentioned from last year's schedule appear to be members of the NCISAA, is there a prohibition on crossplay between organizations (the way there was in Georgia for decades)?
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With me not doing YL full-time here and my oldest just hitting HS last year, I'm a relative neophyte to NC rules, but last year we played Orange and Southern Guilford, both public schools. I don't know about private schools that aren't in the NCISAA, though. But again, it's not like Cristo Rey is in a remote area. While, yeah, it's technically
possible that they couldn't find anyone else to play, that just doesn't seem all that likely, in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill metro area. And if they just really wanted to come to Greensboro/Winston/High Point, there are plenty of small regular-roster private schools to play here. ven after our starters sat, it looked like a Varsity team taking on a Middle School team. (I mean, maybe worse? We outscored them more than 61-9 after the starters sat. I didn't note the score, but I think it was around 36-2 when he took them out.) I really can't stress strongly enough how ludicrous this matchup was. By FAR the worst I've ever witnessed, and you're talking to a guy who witnessed my little private high school's JV team get stomped 89-7 by a big public school my senior year. (We'd gotten strong enough on Varsity that we played a home-and-home with one of the top public school teams in Columbus. We beat them by 3 or 4 at their place and they beat us by 3 or 4 at ours. Very even. But back then you pretty much always played a full four-game slate and, um, we weren't all that deep...
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