Gryphons rained Out

Tonight's baseball and softball games have been rained out.  Baseball will probably play Saturday and once the time is set  will pass it on.

The job search at N C State seems to be on hold waiting on Shaka Smart of VCU who's team is of course still in the final four.  All indications are Smart has told the N C State search committee that he is very interested in the job but wait till next week. Any job opening these days comes with a price tag to the team that another school is after their coach.  In order to keep Smart VCU will have to triple his $350,000 per year salary plus come up with all the extras.

The #2 target on the Wolfpack list is Gary Marshall of Wichita State who several years ago put Winthrop on the map. Whichita State is playing tonight for the NIT title.

Those Carolina Hurricanes are trying to do it again this year.  They have been in about 10th place the entire season and now with five games to go are pushing hard to make the playoffs.  There is such a fine line between winning and losing.  The Hurricanes are just as good as the fifth place team and just as bad as the fifteenth team.

Doesn't that sound a lot like Big East sports.  Every body is evenly matched.

This deal about the Fiesta Bowl and the CEO spending all this money may be the beginning of the end for the BCS.  My thinking is the reason you don't have a NCAA football playoff would mean that the President's and all supporters of a playoff system would have to go four straight weeks to a site kind of like going to a bowl game.That could be expensive for anybody.

My solution is go back to a ten game regular season.  The top 16 teams selected by the selection committee just like basketball would be in.  Any one who does not make the playoffs could still go play in the Mieneke Car Care Bowl just as they do now.  A ten game season plus the two teams that play in the championship game would not play more than 14 games.  D2 and D3 do it so D1 could too.