Warning Signs

 Tarboro Vikings lost a state playoff game Friday night for the first in what seems like forever.  Fans of the Vikings assumed that dropping  down to1-AA the the state championship game was a lock.  Every coach knows his teams weak points and they do what ever is necessary to cover their flank in military terms.

Tarboro had injuries mounting to key players.  You might say they had injuries in the past like Todd Gurley senior year when Tarboro used Gurley sparingly until crunch time and Gurley made out like a division one recruit and took the Vikings to a title.

This is no fault of any player on the current roster that this years team has many excellent players but no Todd Gurley type among them.  Then there is the lack of competition from the Twin Rivers conference  where Tarboro did not have one conference game that wasn't over at the half.

Then there is one more  very important reason why the Vikings lost in the third round.  Wallace Rose Hill was a better football team.  WRH has just as great of tradition as the Vikings so they didn't come to Tarboro shaking in their boots. Every team that is successful and every team that is not falls into traps because they think we are playing ant home and nobody beats us here. Losing teams always have the mentality of not being sure they can win. Tarboro's previous seven games had given them the Superman thinking and here comes a team that is just as good as the Vikings being thrown into a underdog roll and they were ready. I would hope that everyone in Viking land remembers that there are only a few times in any schools lifetime that for six years in a row thay play on Thanksgiving Friday. This has been a good run and it might not be over yet.