The Dictator- TV

The all mighty dollar has ruined many a person who became consumed with the thirst of more money.  There is not a more visible example of that today than college athletics.  Conferences like the Atlantic Coast Conferences are no longer close enough to get in your car on Saturday morning and ride to Charlottesville to a football game.  Louisville and Notre Dame joining the ACC no longer has anything to do with the Atlantic Coast.

Miami has to fly two hours to play a conference game practically with everyone in the ACC.  There is nothing wrong with getting bigger.  Nascar use to have six races a year in North Carolina the home of Nascar.  If Las Vegas takes away one of Charlotte's races we will be down to one.  Why is all of this happening? The answer is simple.  The more TV's that you can attach to that will watch your product the more money is in the cake for everyone to divide up.

TV contracts add millions of dollars to sports conferences.  Spending all that money TV executives want a say when you play and all of the people (College Universities) that want more money have to sell their soul to get it.  There is no more evidence of how TV demands when you play than the North Carolina-South Carolina Super Regional.  The first game was scheduled for noon Friday and was rained out.  Saturday they played at 1pm.  Sunday was another 1pm game.  A split between the two teams  led to a third winner take all game that TV wanted to air Monday night at 7pm not Monday afternoon at Noon or 1pm like the other games had been.

If the game had of been played in the afternoon  there would have been no rainout and the winner would have played their first game in the College World Series at 3pm on Saturday against N C State.  Moving the game to Tuesday the TV schedule was changed and now  Carolina will play State Sunday at 3pm.  Since Tuesday is the drop dead date for having all the games in the Super Regionals completed Both of the college teams called Carolina were put under extreme stress to complete that game on Tuesday.  The bottom line by selling their soul to TV puts every team in peril when it didn't have to be that way.

Last night Coleman Pitt Post 58 threw their name in the hat of being one of the teams to look out for as the conference play has now started.  P58 played in Greenville against  Post 39 in Mark LeClair Stadium at ECU.  When the dust had settled P58 won 8-7 which now gives them a 2-0 conference mark with a really big game at home Friday night against Kinston.

Also, last night at the Sports Complex the Braves coming out of the losers bracket had to beat the A's twice to win the City of Rocky Mount Senior Little League Championship.  The first game was 6-4 and the winner take all final game was 6-3.  It was also the last game as a little league coach for Norman Chambliss  who after 25 years is hanging up his tennis shoes.  What a way to go out as Champions.

Don't forget the Bar-B-Que chicken plates at Northern Nash Friday at lunch time.  Plates are $7 and can be picked up at the school between 11-2.  If you buy 10 or more plates they can be delivered to your place of business.  Proceeds from this dinner will go to the Northern football program.