The Nest Is Empty

Wednesday was moving in day at Campbell University as Volleyball cranked up with a team meeting Wednesday night.  Morgan got moved into her dorm room and met all her volleyball teammates and this morning VB started three a day workouts.

First day for the new manager for Campbell Volleyball was to clean and wash all of the volleyballs, all 114 of them.  I don't think Rocky Mount High school has had 114 in the entire life of Volleyball program at Rocky Mount.

Weather hampered Gryphon football's first scrimmage against Roanoke Rapids last night.  The first few minutes the refs went over changes in the rules for 2012.  Roanoke Rapids ran 12 plays and move the ball but failed to score.  Rocky Mount had 12 plays and like RR moved the football but failed to score.  Both teams had to go to the locker rooms as lightening forced a stoppage and  once resumed they tried to go for a while longer until finally weather stopped play and both teams went home.  Officially for the first time Gryphon fans were able to get a good look at the football stadium.  Friday night Gryphon football will travel to North Johnston for another scrimmage.

I am a surfer and look at other newspapers all the time.  Today you can go to the Daily Reflector in Greenville and since Greenville is the home of ECU they ran a story  about former Gryphon Jacobi Jenkins. JJ has graduated from ECU but is returning to be a starting corner back this year for the Pirates.  It is worth looking up and reading.

I don't know whether you saw this or not but there is an article out calling UNC's Roy Williams the most over rated coach in the country.  First of all why would anybody need to write such an article.  The article says Williams has been one of the luckiest coaches ever because the two places he has coached Kansas and North Carolina are easy sells to players to come to. 

If it was so easy why did Carolina replace Matt Doughery?  Regardless of how good a bench coach you are if you don't have players nobody will know how good you are.  Major colleges a coach has to be able to recruit, keep his players eligible and  win.  Under those credentials there is nothing over rated about old Roy.

Today is the first day of the Southeast Regional of the American Legion baseball playoffs.  Virginia beat Kentucky this morning and Wilmington North Carolina scored two runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to beat Georgia 9-8 to win their first game in Sumter South Carolina.