What are top high school football games in North Carolina this week?
On a new Talking Preps, the crew breaks down Round 3 of the North Carolina playoffs:
▪ Chris Hughes has rankings for all public and private school classes statewide.
▪ Cameron Williams has picks for all of the NCHSAA third-round games, and Hughes breaks down the key games in North Carolina.
▪ We introduce Grice’s Gems, the NC players of the week: Butler’s Keyshawn Barrino, Providence Day’s Ian Cline, Shelby’s Lan Farmer, Hertford County’s Rimiez Williams and Greensboro Grimsley’s Mitchell Summers, who joins us in studio after rushing for nearly 300 yards against Sun Valley last week.
▪ We’ve also got two new “Fresh Faces:” Weddington offensive lineman Logan Potes and Ardrey Kell outside linebacker Parker Ludwick.
▪ Finally, on “Coach vs. Coach,” Jonathan Grice and Sam Greiner debate whether the incoming seven-classification system in North Carolina will make the sport more or less competitive, offer recruiting advice for parents in the transfer portal era and thoughts about whether Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools risk losing standing as a recruiting hotbed if coaches aren’t compensated better.
