Quirkie Schedule

I have spent the last 48 hours dreaming of how I was going to spend the 640 million dollars which I did not win, so it is back to reality.

It's kind of bad for baseball today but if the weather allows Gryphon baseball plays Clayton at 2pm today in Four Oaks in the South Johnston Baseball tournament.  If this tournament is like most I am sure they want to be finished by Wednesday so if they are rained out today might find a day where they play two.  That would be more likely if they were to lose the first game when ever it is played.

Whenever the tournament is over they Gryphons don't play again until Thursday April 12th and it is at Northern Nash.  Talk about messing up a schedule.  Didn't they just play Thursday night?  My only thought is all this Nash County schools out the week before Easter and Wilson County out the week after, you do the best you can to get all the games in by April 26th trying to mix and match each county school and their Easter schedule.

Today is semi final day in New Orleans.  My pick Kentucky is still alive but I tell you this is a powerhouse of big name college basketball programs.

If all of the pre draft talk shows that they will all be first round draft picks Carolina is going to lose not only the graduating  Zeller but Henson, Barnes and Marshall.  That sounds awful but the corral at Carolina is still full of race horses waiting their turn. This week has been quiet in Raleigh as they wait on C J Leslie's decision. 

Just two years ago Harrison Barnes was heralded as the greatest player since sliced cheese.  He was named preseason All American.  C J Leslie came to Raleigh vowing in his news conference that State was back with him on the team.  Last weekend Barnes was biggest weakness was exposed as he can't dribble and Leslie can't score face to face against  seven foot big men.

I believe in the NBA that one on one basketball the style of the NBA requires dribbling and the NBA is loaded with seven foot 300 pound inside players.  They both need to come back and improve.

It is hard to believe with or without Leslie the Pack may be the preseason favorite next year in the ACC now that the first shift at Carolina is gone.  They just might be a preseason top ten and if they happens they have not been rated that high in the preseason since David Thompson's senior season 1974-75.