If there was ever a thought that just maybe having a jamboree featuring all four teams from Nash County would work or not boy that got answered in a big way YES,YES, YES. Nash Central hosted what is hoped will be an annual bash featuring Nash Central, Southern Nash, Northern Nash and Rocky Mount along with Southeast Halifax, D H Conley and Bertie. If you think Nash County doesn't like football think again as even before we talk football fans came out in a big way. Even though they would have loved a fourth visiting team people got their monies worth tonight as football is just a week away. Northern Nash had the soccer lights on as they held a soccer jamboree a couple of miles from the football.
Down highway 64 Rocky Mount held their annual 42 days late Fourth of July celebration featuring the Tams and I would say about three thousand show up for that. The fire works show ended the after work celebration to make up for the heavy rains that fell on July's fireworks.
John Wooten meet Hobbs Johnson. Last week right here on this blog we talked about John Wooten the son of former Rocky Mount Gryphon who was a member of the 1973 State Championship baseball team for Rocky Mount. His son John is playing for Beloit and Monday night the former ECU baseball player who was drafted after his junior year went face to face with Hobbs Johnson who was making his third appearance since moving up to the Wisconsin Rattlers.
Johnson who seems to be destined to be a middle relief pitcher came in the game and one of the batters that Hobbs Johnson faced was none other than former Eastern Wayne and ECU Pirate. On this night Wooten who has hit 16 home runs this year and is batting 242 face the former Gryphon and Carolina pitcher and the pitcher wins the battle as Wooten became the 11th strikeout victim in six innings of pitching so far for Hobbs Johnson since he has joined the Rattlers. Hobb's three appearances since joining the Rattlers six inning, seven hits, 11k's and he has walked only one batter. That adds up to a 1.50 ERA. If Hobbs pitches like this next spring he may start out at Double A if not higher.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Long Term Contracts
The word theses days in college athletics is the bigger the better. 1953 the seven orginal schools that formed the ACC jumped from the Southern Conference because the conference was too big. As time passed by the 1990's the ACC schools made more money per each team in the conference from radio and TV than any other conference.
Along comes ESPN who wants to dominant everything sports with an array of channels to lure conferences to throw their conference sporting events to ESPN. The SEC with it's football power has passed the ACC in money in their pockets and with the ESPN money frenzy every college is looking to make more and more. Get me a TV contract some way some how.
Our government works of the premise that we have so many people in this country paying taxes and as the year goes by and your tax dollar comes in they can pay for all the promises the government has made on the money they are expecting to come in. When all the money expected doesn't come in then the short fall is borrowed to pay all the promises. Now our government pays interest on the money borrowed so all that promised services now cost more when the government has to borrow.
Now what will happen if all this income promised by Nike, ESPN, EA Sports, Fox Sports, your name a network that is outlaying money for the next 20 years for any conference rights, what happens if all these advertisers cut back on spending and now ESPN or who ever can't pay on these promises. Seems to me that all this long term promise is based on inflation tripling in the future. All the Networks are running their business like the government on hope not money already in the bank.
How good does a long term contract work. Ask the New York Yankees whether they got their monies worth from the 210 millions they will spend on A-Rod. It might have worked the first five years but they would love to see A-Rod put down by MLB. I see this game called Satellite, Cable TV hitting the point where people are not going to be able to afford the monthly cost to continue service. When the viewers start going away watching all these games on cable so goes the promised money and all these 16 teams conferences who wanted more money will wind up with less. Unlike the government who borrows to pay promises when viewership goes down the hands held out waiting for their cut will find empty hands.
Along comes ESPN who wants to dominant everything sports with an array of channels to lure conferences to throw their conference sporting events to ESPN. The SEC with it's football power has passed the ACC in money in their pockets and with the ESPN money frenzy every college is looking to make more and more. Get me a TV contract some way some how.
Our government works of the premise that we have so many people in this country paying taxes and as the year goes by and your tax dollar comes in they can pay for all the promises the government has made on the money they are expecting to come in. When all the money expected doesn't come in then the short fall is borrowed to pay all the promises. Now our government pays interest on the money borrowed so all that promised services now cost more when the government has to borrow.
Now what will happen if all this income promised by Nike, ESPN, EA Sports, Fox Sports, your name a network that is outlaying money for the next 20 years for any conference rights, what happens if all these advertisers cut back on spending and now ESPN or who ever can't pay on these promises. Seems to me that all this long term promise is based on inflation tripling in the future. All the Networks are running their business like the government on hope not money already in the bank.
How good does a long term contract work. Ask the New York Yankees whether they got their monies worth from the 210 millions they will spend on A-Rod. It might have worked the first five years but they would love to see A-Rod put down by MLB. I see this game called Satellite, Cable TV hitting the point where people are not going to be able to afford the monthly cost to continue service. When the viewers start going away watching all these games on cable so goes the promised money and all these 16 teams conferences who wanted more money will wind up with less. Unlike the government who borrows to pay promises when viewership goes down the hands held out waiting for their cut will find empty hands.
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