Very Entertaining

You got to hand it to the North Carolina Tar Heels, they can score on anybody.  Their problem everybody can score on them too.  I flipped back and forth between the Tar Heel game and Florida State all night Saturday.   There is no doubt the Tar Heels are great on offense.  There is no doubt they are terrible on defense.  That adds up to entertaining football for the half filled stadium.

I don't know who if anybody can beat Florida State during the rest of the season but they I don't believe are a top ten team.  If they survive with all the allegations against Winstead  and go undefeated they will get killed in their playoff game.  Their defense even though quick can't stop anybody.  N C State looked great on offense against them.

I think if you are a N C State fan today you kind of have to be saying that you played about as well as you can expect from a team that left four starters home in their trip to Louisville.  I really expected a blow out by the Ville but State gave a good effort. Their conference losing streak has grown to 12 in a row.

I think you can kiss the Todd Gurley Heisman chances as gone after this weekend.  He sits on the sidelines for a second game and Georgia has a freshman run for 200 yards.  A topic similar to the Gurley deal, do you remember several years ago when Tom Brady went down with a knee injury in the first game of the season which was a loss.  His replacement lead New England to 11 wins that year.  That kind of soured me on how great Tom Brady was because his replacement had his kind of numbers.  If I was a Heisman voter and Gurley returns I would in the back my mind think every time he rushes for big yardage that even his backup can do that.  If Georgia had of fell apart it would at least look like Gurley was needed but they have scored 40 in both games without him.

Two Big East conference girls tennis teams are alive an well in the state duel tennis Tournament.  Rocky Mount (17-1) plays Topsoil (9-7)a team they played as their first match of the season and beat Topsoil 5-4.  Hunt(15-2) in their second round match is playing Union Pines (13-1).  weather permitting both are today.

Northern Nash held serve at home while Rocky Mount lost in the shootout as Southern Nash the sixth seed in the Big East soccer tournament beat Rocky Mount 2-1 5th while Northern had no problem with Nash Central 7-1,  Southern travels travels to #1seed Hunt tonight while Northern Nash 3 seed visits #2 Fike.

There will be a visiting team in town this Friday night.  The Rocky Mount Gryphons return home for the first time since September 5th which was a rout over Hertford County.  Five away games and a bye week the Gryphons will probably have to be told  they don't need to go in the visitor locker room this week.

These kind of odd ball schedules happen when you play 11 games over ten.  The very best schedule any team can have is six home and five away which will flip the next year.  I wish the NCHSAA would go back to a ten game regular season.  I would like for every high school to show me where adding an eleventh game has brought in more revenue.  It also brings on more expenses.  I am sure the top ten schools in the state in game attendance love it.  On the other hand the top 100 team in  least attendance hate it.  They lose more money.

The Gryphons football record is 6-2  2-0.  They gave up 92 points in their two losses to Rose and SouthWest Edgecombe.  They have only given up 28 in their six wins.  They are tied at the top after two weeks with Southern Nash  and are the only team to win twice on the road.  Fike at home this week and then the big matchup with Southern at Southern  and finish up with Northern at home.  The schedule doesn't get any easier.

Did anybody notice that Eastern Wayne beat ROSE 63-23.  Is that a misprint????