Gryphons Are A Work In Progress

I think what you saw from the Gryphons last night is about what you are going to get this season. This team is not half bad, but when compared to the last two Gryphon teams who were undefeated in regular season there is just no comparison.

Hunt will bring a team here that I think is the Southwest Edgecombe game of the past four years. Hunt like us is no comparison to SWE of the past. If the Gryphons can win next week then there is a good chance for an undefeated conference record.

If you look at some of my past statements I told you this team was going to win games 28-14 instead of 42-14 like you have become accustom to. If this team does win out I think we will be a completely different team than what we are even right now and that will be for the better.

The past three weeks all I have heard was the players don't like Schock, he has no personality. What does that have to do with coaching football.

My senior year in high school Daryll Allen came to Ahoskie high as an assistant coach. 1971 he became the head coach. People were complaining that Allen had about as much personality as a rock.

As the years past, they found out that he was different once you knew him. It took me five years to get to where I felt like I didn't have to pry information out of him. Give Schock a chance. He has still only been here less than three months.

One thing people found out was Allen could coach football and that is all they really cared about any way.

Yes of course there is the following the legend syndrome. Schock will have to win a state title to to get out of the shadow of B W Holt. Just looking at what the JV's have coming up I don't think a state title is just around the corner. We are in a period where we don't have the great athletes like we have had the last five years.

But, we still have good athletes.

Our senior players have never experience three losses in bunches like we have experienced this year. They will be better football players because of it. Now hear me when I say this because I don't think it's possible. Wouldn't it be funny if we got all the way to the eastern finals or even won it all because we went through some bad times but they came out of it better people because they stuck together.

Sunday night on the "Stretchlon Sports Show"there is going to be a live segment at 8.00pm with Ken Sykes who is the travel league coach of the Nashville Cardinals. They are putting on a skill challenge in a few weeks and he will talk about some of the pro baseball players that will be here.

Following the live part of the show we will show the awards presentation the City Of Rocky Mount made to the Senior little league state champs. That's Sunday night at 8.00pm on WHIG TV.