Gryphon Tennis Cruises

Rocky Mount High school tennis team traveled to Triton on Tuesday for the second round of the Tennis Playoff duels and the Lady Gryphons blast the previously unbeaten Hawks 6-0. That of course means each Lady Gryphon won their singles match and due to the fact that Rocky Mount has already clinched victory there was no need for the three doubles matches. The Lady Gryphons 18-2 will travel in the third round to Terry Sanford 12-0 next week. What did you expect, the NCAA investiagation into the corruption of Miami University was halted when evidence was presented that in order to find out what was going on at the U the NCAA did improper actions in order to dig up the dirt they found on Miami The U will lose 3 scholarships a year for three years which is a tap on the wrist at best. Former basketball coach Frank Haith will be suspended for five games as he is now the basketball coach at Missouri. Basketball will also lose one scholarship per year for three years. Somewhere along the way the NCAA has lost perspective on how to deal out punishment. Teams five years after the infraction are punished for what others ahead of them created. The NCAA has to suspend coaches or any person in a program who knowingly violates the rules must be suspended for at least a year for their first violation and for life if it happens again. Haith getting punished now at Missouri punishes Missouri more than Haith. The NCAA must find a way to move faster whenever violations are reported. It should not take three years to report whether a booster gave money to an athlete or not. When the findings comes out that a booster gave money he should be banned from all college facilities for life.Until the NCAA sticks some power in the action people will continue to cheat when they know not much is going to happen to me. If coaches or University officials are involved they must be put out of business for a year and any other violation banned for life. After the way the NCAA screwed up the orginal Miami investigation and since Miami already served a self imposed ban on bowl games the NCAA needed to do something but as we all say when fussing with referees about calls they make. For the NCAA this was a make-up call. Not that long ago we were digging the grave of Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe. One of the great things that coaches love is to see players and teams mature right in front of their eyes.Guess it is life watching your child grow up. We all have a good feeling when we see what we have been trying to create in a child or a team finally starts showing. Wake Forest has the right coach for the program what they want to have. They are not going to get five star recruits to play for them but they get plenty of intelligent three stars players who know how to play as a team. We were all putting Grobe to pasture in early September and right now Wake might be the best team in North Carolina. Duke is one win away from going to their second Bowl Game in a row. I know that the last 40 years Duke football has been on skid row but back in their heyday they never went to a bowl game back to back. Coach Cut has changed the culture in Durham.