Big MO

In football, the team that wins the turnover battle most of the time wins the game.

When you have six turnovers and you don't create any yourself, most of the time you don't have a chance. Today, Carolina didn't have a chance.

I can hear it now, all the Carolina faithful will say we didn't have any life. It didn't look like we wanted to play.

That's what happens when you turn the ball over. It takes away MOmentum. In Carolina's, case today six times when it had the ball it gave the ball to N.C. State who from those turnovers got Big MOmentum and steamed rolled Carolina 41-10.

Tidbits from Friday's results:

I hear Hertford County lost its quarterback during the first series of the game and he never returned. They lost 15-13 to Eastern Alamance

I don't know whether either or both teams will make it to the eastern Finals, but if Rocky Mount faces SouthWest Edgecombe on Dec. 5, they will need to bring in extra bleachers much like they do for the Down East Viking classic.

I can see 10,000 fans showing up for that game.

That's still a long way off.

Wonder how strong of a schedule Rocky Mount played this year?

East Forsyth, Northern Vance, and SouthWest Edgecombe will be playing next weekend along with the Gryphons. The Gryphons won those three games by a combined score of 76-24.

Biggest surprise to me was Bunn losing to Goldsboro by 20. Tarboro is next for Goldsboro.

Three No. 1 seeds fell last night - Hoggard, Harnett Central and Mount Tabor. Being a No. 1 seed is not an automatic invite to the state championship.

Did we find out what we wanted to know? Dudley stuffed Fike 46-0. Rocky Mount handled Fike 52-7. What have we learned? Dudley and Rocky Mount would be some game.

Those of you that stayed home last night you missed a treat in the quarterback for Webb Antwan Thorpe.

I wish you could watch the film. On one play, there was five Gryphons who had a chance for a sack and no one got one. But the pressure did cause an incomplete pass.

On his 78-yard touchdown run I think all 11 Gryphons thought they had him.

This to me is the most special week of the high school football season. There will be 32 North Carolina High school teams hoping still to win the state championship.

Coach Holt has always tried to get a player from the past to come talk to the team after their practice on Thanksgiving morning, like a Rocky Mount legend Danny Talbott.

This will be the fifth year in a row that Rocky Mount has had a practice on Thanksgiving.

We should all give thanks because you never know when you will practice on Thanksgiving again. Prior to 2004, RMHS hadn't since 1977!