College Basketball Before Thanksgiving.

Sure would like to see college basketball wait at least until after Thanksgiving to crank up but the all mighty ESPN continues to throw money on the table to get games like tonight.  Duke Plays Kentucky in the Georgia Dome.  What on earth are they doing playing there?  ESPN has found somebody that will finance tonight game and it will be call something and ESPN will carry it.

The Big Three ACC schools from the Triangle are all highly rated in the early season and after a week Carolina has played twice and looked ok but not great.  State had the biggest blowout but who can tell from one game.  Duke looked better in their opener than I thought they would but who knows where any of them are heading in just the first week.

It looks to me that Carolina has Duke's problem from last year , greedy guards.  They want to do all the scoring and the best players are not getting the ball enough.  Duke in the first game looked more like they enjoyed playing with each other which at times last year that didn't seem to happen.  State looked as if the preseason rankings might be right but they hit the court at 5pm Wednesday in San Juan against Penn St.  We will need to see how State plays after the first bump in the road.

Looked on the NCHSAA website tonight checking on football jobs opened and SouthWest Edgecombe officially started looking for their new coach to replace Raymond Cobb.  Whole lot of rumors floating about Northern Nash but the Nash/Rocky Mount and NCHSAA websites have nothing so at this point only rumors.

The Steelers just maybe lost a big whack in their season last night when Bem Rothlesburger went down with a shoulder injury.  Might be back next week or out a month who knows.  They play Baltimore Sunday.

Do you realize that Duke here on November 13th is still alive to with the Coastal Division of the ACC and if they beat Georgia Tech this week who put 68 on Carolina and beat Miami next week they just might meet Florida State in the ACC Championship game.  If it happens I'll take FSU by 40.