BIG AND BAD

We like to think around here that the ACC is the biggest and baddest when it comes to basketball.  There is some truth in that statement when the ACC has won five national titles this century.  Likewise the SEC says the are the best in football and winning like 19 National Championships in a row or what ever it is just might make them the best in football.

There is a hole in the SEC dyke this year however as the biggest and baddest can't explain why new comer Texas A&M is 4-2 in the league and I heard a prediction on the radio today that said A&M would beat Alabama this Saturday.  A&M is second behind Alabama in the West division.  If the SEC was so big  and bad how come A&M is not 0-6.  Even in the East division Missouri  the other Big 12 defector is fifth out of seven.  They are a lot closer to where the Big and Bad conference new comer should be if the SEC is all that big and bad.

I haven't talked about Tarboro's Todd Gurley lately and since I'm talking about big and bad this would be a good time to bring Gurley up.  So far this year for the 8-1 Georgia Bulldogs Gurley has carried 138 times for 857 yards which works out to a very neat 6.2 yards per carry.  Early in the season he was sharing the carries with the other super freshman from North Carolina Keith Marshall but Gurley has taken more snaps lately while Marshall has had 82 totes.  Gurley is becoming the man for the Bulldogs and he has also scored 10 times this season.

Sunday night while working with buddy Wes Bradshaw on WHIG-TV he brought up Brian Goodwin's yearly totals playing in his first full year in the minors between A ans AA ball.  He hit 280 slammed 14 home runs and drove in 52.  In fall ball this year he hit another three home runs and hit 268.  If he keeps this up he might see the inside of the baseball stadium in Washington D C by the end of the year next season.

Just got word that Tarboro defensive coordinator A B Whitley will undergo back surgery on Wednesday.  This have been a tough fall for A B.  He had to have an old high school injury fixed earlier this fall and while recuperating from that has hurt his back.   He has tried his best to be on the sidelines with the Vikings until the season was over but obviously that won't happen for him after tomorrow..  We will be praying for him

I hope each and every one of you did you civic duty today on at least like me during the early voting period and voted for the candidates that you think can run our town, county , state and federal government the best.  You lose the right to fuss  about how it is going if you didn't!