The rumors have been stirring and today the old oak tree was cut down as B W Holt resigned as head football ending a six year run that brought Rocky Mount football from mediocre to one of the best programs in the state.
Within the span of a week Rocky Mount will now have to replace both of their highly successful baseball and football coaches.
Holt's arrival in the city on the rise occurred in 2003 because of problems with the previous announce new head coach when complications arose over his resume'. In the middle of July Holt arrives not knowing one player and had to get ready for his first practice with a team that he had never seen.
Yet they won their first five games and finished his first campaign with an 8-3 record.
Year number two brought a stunning undefeated regular season and unset victories over Rose and New Bern on the road. The New Bern game I still consider my second most exciting game of all time that I ever did behind the mike on radio which resulted in a two point conversion in overtime to win at New Bern 35-34.
The New-6 conference during the next four years saw only two conference defeats in that span, three conference championships and three trips to the Eastern Regional finals.
A six year record of 71-12. Four conference championships and a playoff record 14-6. Those are Babe Ruth numbers .
When all the said and done is over I think The baseball program will be filled from within the program but football is a different beast all together. Those remaining football coaches none have head coaching experience and with the level Holt has the Gryphon program there is not a coach in North Carolina that would not want the job just based on football.
However with all the cuts being made within the county the number of assistants jobs available as well as what you might consider the gravy part of the job may not be there for an outsider to leave what he already has.
Regardless of who ever replaces B W Holt he will leave the well full of fresh water. I would suspect that Rocky Mount will be the preseason favorite to win the New Big East 3-A next year.
After Holt stayed at Starmount for 19 seasons he left the well over flowing and the next coach was able to win the state title.
The well is no where close to dry at Rocky Mount and you can thank B W Holt for that.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
ECU Rallies,Headed To Chapel Hill
Down six to zip in the fifth inning the ECU Pirates fought their way back and in the bottom of the ninth inning got a three run homer to tie and send the game into overtime. Wasting little time the Pirates scratched a run home in the tenth inning to dispense of South Carolina 10-9 and earn a shot in the Super regional against UNC-Chapel Hill.
ECU played the Gamecocks three times in three days. South Carolina sent ECU to the losers bracket having beaten the Pirates 12-2 in Saturday's winner's bracket game. ECU won twice on Sunday beating Binghamton first in the losers bracket elimination game and then hung on for dear life in beating South Carolina in their second game on Sunday 10-8 after having a big lead almost disappear.
ECU and UNC begin their Super regional in Chapel Hill on Friday night. This is the first Super for ECU since 2004 and North Carolina's fourth in a row.
Lost by most of us when we heard of the Pat Smith resignation at RMHS was he is the second coach there that needs to be replace. Debbie Webb retired at Christmas as the girl's volley ball coach. She has been replace by Tabitha Wilcox who will lead the lady spikers next season.
Wilcox has been the volley ball coach at Edwards has coached all of the existing volley ball players except for this year rising senior class.
My daughter Morgan having been a volley ball player at Edwards as a seventh grader, I had a chance to watch Tab coach and she made all players serve over handed in order to play. This cost her some wins due to the fact they didn't always get the overhanded serves over while other teams underhanded it across the net. Once those players got to high school they were well ahead of other teams in their ability to play volley ball.
I think Tab will keep the tradition going for the Gryphons in Volley ball.
All of the hoop-la over Lebron not shaking hands is a big effort by the news media to keep something in the news. hardly any pro players shake hands after game in any sport.
If you think back the NFL coaches use to wave across the field at each other until the NFL made it mandatory that they shake hands. Now all you get is a slight hand touch in most cases.
Where the reel issue I have with LeBron James is his missing the news conference. The NBA is not going to fine him but they should have hit him with about a $50,000 fine. It was too late at night for me to sit up and watch the press conferences on ESPN- News but I enjoy the after game interviews during the NFL season especially Philip Rivers and San Diego. He didn't let the news media down but the fans who wanted to hear from him.
Lebron's news conference explanation to me on Sunday why he didn't shake hands is up their with the Allen Iverson's interview "but this is practice" which showed Iverson as shelfish, and above everyone else. Iverson was never thought of as the super star after that like he thought he was.
ECU played the Gamecocks three times in three days. South Carolina sent ECU to the losers bracket having beaten the Pirates 12-2 in Saturday's winner's bracket game. ECU won twice on Sunday beating Binghamton first in the losers bracket elimination game and then hung on for dear life in beating South Carolina in their second game on Sunday 10-8 after having a big lead almost disappear.
ECU and UNC begin their Super regional in Chapel Hill on Friday night. This is the first Super for ECU since 2004 and North Carolina's fourth in a row.
Lost by most of us when we heard of the Pat Smith resignation at RMHS was he is the second coach there that needs to be replace. Debbie Webb retired at Christmas as the girl's volley ball coach. She has been replace by Tabitha Wilcox who will lead the lady spikers next season.
Wilcox has been the volley ball coach at Edwards has coached all of the existing volley ball players except for this year rising senior class.
My daughter Morgan having been a volley ball player at Edwards as a seventh grader, I had a chance to watch Tab coach and she made all players serve over handed in order to play. This cost her some wins due to the fact they didn't always get the overhanded serves over while other teams underhanded it across the net. Once those players got to high school they were well ahead of other teams in their ability to play volley ball.
I think Tab will keep the tradition going for the Gryphons in Volley ball.
All of the hoop-la over Lebron not shaking hands is a big effort by the news media to keep something in the news. hardly any pro players shake hands after game in any sport.
If you think back the NFL coaches use to wave across the field at each other until the NFL made it mandatory that they shake hands. Now all you get is a slight hand touch in most cases.
Where the reel issue I have with LeBron James is his missing the news conference. The NBA is not going to fine him but they should have hit him with about a $50,000 fine. It was too late at night for me to sit up and watch the press conferences on ESPN- News but I enjoy the after game interviews during the NFL season especially Philip Rivers and San Diego. He didn't let the news media down but the fans who wanted to hear from him.
Lebron's news conference explanation to me on Sunday why he didn't shake hands is up their with the Allen Iverson's interview "but this is practice" which showed Iverson as shelfish, and above everyone else. Iverson was never thought of as the super star after that like he thought he was.
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