Gurley Marches Into Georgia

Former Tarboro High football player Todd Gurley score on the second and third touches of the football in his college football career.  His first play an unimpressive two yard run but #2 Gurley  broke a tackle at the eight yard line and cruised in for a ten yard touchdown run.  Georgia's defense allowed Buffalo a touchdown and on the following kickoff Gurley went 100 yards to give Georgia a 14-3 lead.

Gurley saved the best for last as in the fourth quarter he broke three tackles on a run up the middle and once he broke free as they say"Katie Bar the Door" a 55 yard scamper which gave Gurley three touchdowns on the day.  Gurley ran only eight times from scrimmage but hit the century mark getting 100  yards.  Boy does he have big expectations to live up to now.

Larry Fedora has that big hill of expectations to overcome now as his Tar Heels romp over Elon 62-0.  It has been 17 years since the Heels scored that many points.

ECU gets the 2012 football season off on the right foot as they hammer App State 35-13.

Fans have no middle ground.  You are expected to be the best team ever and when you stumble all of a sudden you are now the worse ever.  N C State fans have gone from hoping to play for the conference championship  to ready to run Tom O'Brien out of town after State lost last night to Tennessee.

Expectations can be fun to wish but nobody knows for sure about any thing.  It will be three weeks or so before State fans will know whether last night loss was pitiful or not bad at all.  Just suppose Tennessee turns out to play for the SEC championship or maybe the National Championship.  Take five minutes away from that game last night and State played about as well as you could expect.  Plain and Simple Tennessee was a better football team and they were much better than State at every position.

The other end of the spectrum is North Carolina.  What did they learn today.  Who knows until we see what Elon does the next few week.  Suppose Elon doesn't win a game all year then today wasn't all that impressive. 

There is a middle ground some where in every game.  State isn't as bad a State fans think and Carolina is probably not as good as they looked today in Larry fedora's first game in Chapel Hill.

Let's face it as long as the ACC stays away from allowing Non qualifiers to play and the SEC does the ACC teams will always be at a disadvantage when ever they play any team from the SEC.  We as fans have to decide what we want.  Do we want to win at all cost or do we want to set the academic standards and make all ACC teams live by them.  There is no middle ground but fans want both and academic excellence and winning football most of the time don't go together.

Better Conditioned Gryphons Comeback

Hertford County rushed for nearly 200 yards the first 20 minutes of the game and took advantage of a 50 yard td pass and looked as if they were going to dominate the smaller Gryphons. Insert Mason Hines with a 89 yard kickoff return to get the score to 14-10 Bears and then something happened that told the tale of this game.

HC had two players go down with cramps late in the second quarter and by my count at games end had another six times players go down.  Results HC fails to get a first down in the second half and Rocky Mount get a hugh 4th and seven run from Mason Hines and the Gryphons beat Hertford County 17-14.

Rocky Mount had field position the entire second half  and did nothing until they decided to go for it on fourth and seven from HC 47 which by the way had been Rocky Mount's worse starting position in the second half when they started at own 41.  Mason Hines was hit in the back field broke way and sprinted 12 yards for a Gryphon first down and from that point on the Gryphons drove for the winning td on a Hines two yard run with 8:17 to play.

By night's end Hertford County would rush for 233 in the game and pass for 76 yards but only 79 total yards came in second half.  Hines got 89 yards to lead the Gryphon rushing attack which totaled only 154 for the game and another 39 yards on passes.

Even though HC line on both sides of the ball were much bigger than the Gryphons the Gryphons come back to win 17-14.

Tarboro has found out the past several years that after they go through the first few games of the season and play all 3-A schools that they look as if they don't have any defense what so ever.  Then they get to conference they settle in and start holding teams down on offense and of course their offense can score on anybody.   Northern Nash puts 35 on the board against the Vikings and still lose 47-35.  I know there are not many coaches that will say  this was   a good loss but for the Knight's I think this shows what this team can do.

Roanoke Rapids the last two weeks has feasted on 1-A level competition scoring 114 points.  Friday night they hosted Nash Central and a chance  to see if they are really as good as their scoring has been.  The answer is no as Nash Central takes down RR 33-7.

Thursday night Hunt had a test from SouthWest Edgecombe breaking open a tied game in the fourth quarter to win 28-14 over the Cougars.  Southern Nash  ripped Bunn 37-14.

Here is a Big East score from Friday night that you might find interesting Beddingfield 49 Fike 48. wow