Notre Dame Did ACC No Favors

If Notre Dame had been an ACC member playing for the National Championship Monday night then the results are about what has happened most of the time when the SEC plays the ACC.  Every now and then there is an exception to the rule like Clemson over LSU but that doesn't happen often.

There is never a guarantee when ever two teams play that the game will not be a blow out one way or the other but if there had been an 8 team playoff the Fighting Irish would have never gotten to the semi finals if  Monday was the real Fighting Irish.  There is one thing that everyone needs to understand that conference foes who play you every year know what to expect when they play against you but Notre Dame was completely slow and not strong enough to beat Bama.

 I doubt that the coaches from ND had any  idea that Bama's offensive line would push them around like they did.  If they were to meet in the National Championship game next year I am sure ND's coaches would not have the same game plan they had Monday night.  You live and learn.  I am not saying by doing it differently they would have won  this game but the next time they would know more than they knew Monday.

The Lady Knights of Northern Nash are the #1 team in the state after beating Chapel Hill last week in the MAXPreps.com poll.  Northern got a lot of attention from around the state when they knocked off CH.  I don't care how good you are the big city teams will always get rated in preseason polls ahead  of the country folks like we are until you prove that you need to be noticed.  Chapel Hill I consider  in the Triangle so that would classify as part of the big city.  The Ladies Knights did that last week and got everybody's attention.

Rocky Mount has a home game again this week Friday night and Hunt just might be the team to give the Gryphon boys trouble during the regular season.  I get asked this question all the time are the Gryphons as good as you have been saying?  Why don't you come find out Friday night.  If you haven't been to the new gym historically Hunt doesn't bring all that many people for basketball so I suspect there will be plenty of seats available to come look.

 I would also think that Hunt girls who are tall but not athletic will push Rocky Mount for that #2 spot if Northern does prove out to be the best in the conference.  That puts a premium on that girls game Friday night at 6pm for conference seeding.