Baseball is in the conference lead, after five conference matches tennis is undefeated, and girls soccer has only lost one conference match. Track and field it is hard to tell where we are among conference foes but about the middle seems about right. Softball is the only sport down on their luck.
Girls soccer yesterday beat Nash Central 11-0. They have a match today at 5.00pm at home with Fike . Monday they have the rematch with Hunt the only team to beat the Lady Gryphons in conference.
The NCAA coaches have asked for and received three rules changes, oddly enough the best one will not go into effect until 2011. The coaches have asked for a penalty of no touchdown any time a player taunts while still on the playing field before scoring. Pointing their fingers as they run, swan dive into the end zone and of course high stepping. I think this is a great rule change.
During my playing days in the Roman times of the 1960's you never saw any one dance after a tackle, any thing that made just one player stand out. Why did you never see that? First off your coach would have killed you and when you got home your father would have dug you out of the grave and killed you again.
Billy"Whiteshoes" Johnson was the first so called show boater with his Charleston Dance and pound the ball in the ground after a touchdown. No one had ever done that before and it caught the NFL off guard as to what to do to his performance. They did nothing so others started. By the 1990 the Redskins Smurfs were performing in the end zone as a group.
What happens in the NFL is going to college and what happens in college is coming to high schools. Thank the lord that high schools put a stop on the show boating before it ever got off the ground.
I think the first time a touchdown is scored and a team loses a game because of a taunting penalty that will be the end of taunting. Players will fall in line. It would be nice if the NFL had the same rule. Most all actions on the field on Saturday were seen on Sunday first and it will be harder to stop if they keep seeing it on Sunday.
Why should there ever be taunting in football. Every play you have and opportunity to knock someone on their butt. Since I use to be one of the guys that was always on his butt I knew who was the best on that play and most of everyone in the stands knew too.
