State Playoff Push Begins

If you know any football player who plays for any high school in the area that plays in the Big East you may have noticed a change in that player this week.  Positioning for the state high school playoffs for the Big East Starts Friday night.

High school OT .com has come out with their own computer rankings and Hunt from the Big East is the only team to make top ten.  Rocky Mount, Nash Central and Southern Nash all failed to make the 3-A top 30.   Everyone who has a ranking has a formula they go by and Rocky Mount out ranking both Nash Central  and Southern is somewhat of a surprise to me.  I would assume any ranking goes by who you have played and the Gryphons first five are just as tough as any and when you win them that even makes you higher.

Northern Nash beat Nash Central in Volleyball Tuesday while Hunt knocked off the Gryphons.  Right now everyone in the league is chasing Fike.  Next week is the end of the regular season and then there is the conference tournament.

There is a gigantic football game in the ACC this weekend and it is not the one you think.  Duke plays Wake Forest and the Deacs have beaten the Devils every time they have played this Century.  The Devils have their best chance to win this game in a long time.  The Devils still think they can get to a Bowl Game and if they do they have to win this game.

Fans are still tore out of their socket over the bad call made on Monday Night Football when Seattle beat Green Bay on the last play of the game.  So what happens today but the rumors are stirring that the NFL and the Regular Refs as close to an agreement to get them back on the field.

Most fans will say "yeah after Monday night the NFL Owners have come to their senses and are going to give the Refs what they want".  I doubt that is totally true.  Here is what I think is happening.  Most NFL officials are men who have really great jobs in life but their part time job pays them $150,000 a year on weekends.  The NFL regular season is now three weeks old and including the four preseason games that part time job that pays $150 thousand those refs have lost almost $50,000 of it.

Whether it is the NFL owners or the Refs they all should be embarrassed at what is occurring.  If I was an NFL official after seeing the no call on the pass interference n the in zone I would be chomping to get back to work because the fill ins are embarrassing me at what I do part time.