Walter Peyton Award (Almost)

Former Rocky Mount High school athlete Terrell Hudgins finished second in the voting for the Walter Peyton award which is the award as the top Offensive player in Division One FCS division. Hudgins finished second to Armani Edwards of Appalachian State who wins the award for the second year in a row.

Hudgins finishes his career holding 10 NCAA records,(Four of those NCAA records were held by Jerry Rice) six Southern Conference records and three Elon records.

Hudgins places in the top fifteen in the voting for the third year in a row as he finished 11th in 2007 and 15th in 08.

Terrell's NCAA Records
1. 4 years in a row with 1,000 yards receiving the only player in any division
ever to do that.
2. 34 games in which he had at least one receiving touchdown
3. 1.2 touchdown catches per game for career tied.
4. 28 career 100 yard receiving games most ever in any division.
5. 116.7 yards per game most ever in FCS
6. 5,520 yards career receiving most ever in NCAA history
7. 8.8 career receptions per game FCS record
8. 123 catches this season most ever in one year in FCS
9. 395 career catches most ever in NCAA History.
10 Shared with teammate Michael Mayer in 2007. 207 catches by teammates in a
season

Southern Conference Records
1. ten games in a season with at least 100 in a game
2. Five games in a row with at least 100 yards receiving (once in 2006,Twice in
2009)
3. 52 career receiving touchdowns
4. 1,633 yards in on season (2009)
5. 3 career 200 yards games (Tied)
6. 2,538 combines yards with teammate Michael Mayer in 2007

ELON Records

1. 16 reception in one game (twice in 2007) (once 2009)
2. four touchdowns receptions in a game (2007)
3. 18 touchdown reception in a season (2007)

Finishing second in the Walter Camp award is the highest a Rocky Mount High Athlete has obtained since Phil Ford and Buck Williams were named Rookie of the year in the NBA in 1979 and 1982.

Gryphon Basketball Basketball was postponed Friday night against Rose.

Fall was a great athletic season for Rocky Mount sports. The Wachovia Cup fall standing are out and the Gryphons lead the Big East with 57 points followed by Fike at 48.5 and Hunt at 48 points.

Winning The Lottery Hardly Ever Pays

Athletes are just like people who win the lottery. Most of the time average Joe's who when they hit the big money have no idea how to handle it.

That ten million dollar life style is on the other side of town compared to the 25,000 a year life of most who win the lottery.

Yesterday another life was lost to the fast lane. Chris Henry of the Cincinnati Bengals looks like now may have jumped from the bed of a pickup truck in which his girl friend was driving. I wonder if we will ever hear the truth on this one.

N C State made an 11 point comeback last night against basketball power Elon and won their eighth game of the season with only one loss. State travels to Wake Sunday night to open ACC play on Sunday night ACC basketball.

Was off by one day, the Gryphons play basketball in Greenville tonight against Rose weather permitting.

The Indy Colts continue to stay undefeated as they beat the Jaguars in Jacksonville. The score was 35-31 as Peyton Manning the better of the two Manning brothers threw for four touchdowns. I just don't see the Colts in the Super Bowl just getting by the way they do.

There is one thought from this historic twenty three game regular season win streak that the Colts are on. As long as Manning is on the field they have a chance at winning.

Some loose business to take care of. I was on a sports panel for WHIG-TV along with my sidekick Wes Bradshaw and as part of the WHIG-TV game of the week they were telling everyone that they were going to give a coach of the year award to the top coach. The winner Raymond Cobb of Southwest Edgecombe. SouthWest got $1,000 donated to the school athletic fund. Raymond got four votes, Danny Ward of North Edgecombe received one and Tarboro's Jeff Craddock got one vote from me.

I found this out last night when I attended the WHIG-TV Christmas party. Everyone who you see on Whig-TV anytime during a week was there. Herb and Sandra really put on a nice show last night.