Rest Time For Most

Southern Nash and Tarboro high light this week's Big East schedule as both have taken a week off earlier in order to meet up this week.   First of all I don't like the 11 game regular season. With the week off everyone takes along the way it takes 12 weeks to complete the regular season and then for the really great teams five weeks of playoffs.  I would love to see football over by the end of November all other fall sports do it why can't football?  Let us look at the preseason picks and where they could finish up.

I picked Southern Nash as the preseason number one and they stand 5-0.  I am concerned that all their injuries that they can not live up to their potential without at least one A number one back.  They are getting the job done with defenders and jv's running the ball and none are all star level runners.

Picked Northern Nash second and the reason was Northern always has talent but having a captain to guide the ship has been missing.  They have that captain in Randy Raper and you can see his influence taking hold more every day.

I picked Hunt third and after watching them this past Friday I think third is about right.  Any team that relies on power running needs a break a way back and they don't have one.  Also they don't have a quarterback that can get them eight yards with  a throw and they don't have that either.  They do have a solid defense and will be hard to score  lots of points on.

I picked Rocky Mount fourth but if you remember I said 2-3-4 could all switch as the season unfurls.  Look ok,Jason Battle is 13-4 as the head man of the Gryphons and when he has had to doesn't mind putting the ball in the air when the running game stalls.  The last two weeks they have been able to win when the running game sputtered.

I picked Nash Central fifth and they are heading that way fast.  Simply they can not move the ball to help a halfway decent defense.

After picking Fike for last they look like my big embarrassment of the season!  Still their schedule is questionable so I am still not sure they are as good as their 6-0 record.

There are several teams that need two weeks to heal up before the conference rush.  The team that uses the next two weeks the best will win the Big East this year.