Cofield Makes Third Team ALL ACC

Takoby Cofield the 310 pound offense tackle from Duke  the Redshirt senior from Tarboro is a third team all ACC selections.  If the ACC was a eight team conference from the past Cofield just might be first team but now that the ACC goes from Miami to Chicago and Boston third team is not bad.

That just might tell a little about why Tarboro won three straight titles when the have the likes of an all Conference college lineman in Cofield and an All American back in Todd Gurley playing for them.  Might also tell you a little bit about why the last two years they have not advance past the third round and the type players it takes to win state titles.

Went 2-0 in high school picks last week correctly picking both SouthWest and Tarboro to be bounced from the playoffs.  My high school finishing record for the year was 85-23.

Also the regular season is over in college for our local teams and my pick record in college games was 92-33.  I will pick every bowl game once they are announced next Sunday.  Heavy rumors abound that State and ECU may be matchup in the bowl game in Annapolis Maryland  what ever it is called.  If that happens then the winning team could truly say they are the state champions in North Carolina college football.

You know the ACC formed in 1953 when the ACC members said the old Southern conference was too big when they had 23 teams.  Well we are almost back some 60 years later to the conference being too big.  Wouldn't it be something if one day the pendulum swung back the other way and all the North Carolina D1 schools would form a conference, North Carolina, State, Duke, ECU, Wake, App St, W Carolina, Elon and Charlotte.  The way the TV money is driving sports these days Campbell, High Point , UNC W and anyone with a football program can get into the big money by being D1.

Tonight high school basket ball takes charge in the area as Rocky Mount host Hertford County.  All three other public high schools are on the road.  Northern at Southern Wayne, Nash Central at SouthWest Edgecombe and Southern Nash at Bunn.

Tonight Louisville will represent the ACC in the ACC Big East challenge for the first time.  Louisville is lead by Montrelz Harrell from Tarboro who if I was voting would vote him player of the year in the ACC at this point. Harrell is averaging almost 18 per game and almost nine rebounds per game.  Game time is 9:30 on one of the ESPN channels.