That's All We Need

Oh boy, four more bowls games than what we had last year.  Now 78 teams from D1 football  will go someplace to play an extra football game this year called something.  There are only 128 teams in D1 so we are getting ever so close to sending a team with a losing record to a bowl game.  I think we have reached the point where we need to let the selection committee should value of the worse four teams and lets have a four team playoff to determine who is the worse team.  Wouldn't that be more exciting that finding out who is the best?

Sounds a lot like high school playoffs when teams with 3 wins or less get in.  There is a good chance that the team winning the NFC South in the NFL  just might not win half their games either.  What we will do to make more money?

So we now have the four  that can still win the so called national championship.  The first semi final will be  Alabama and Ohio State and the other Oregon and Florida State with the two winners meeting  in the jumbo winner take all game.  All other games are now just the . com bowl games to give 74 other teams something to do over the holidays.  Included in those 74 other teams are four from right here in our back yard.

Carolina will be heading to Ford Field in Detroit for their Bowl Game now called the Fast Lane Bowl.   Game time  will be at 4:30  on Friday after Christmas and they will be playing Rutgers.

Duke is heading for a bowl game for the third year in a row which has never been done by Duke Football before.  They will meet 15th rank Arizona  St. in the Sun Bowl.  Game time is December the 27th at 2pm.

If you are a Big Four fan there will be a double header on the 26th.  N C State is heading South to play UCF  in the St Petersburg Bowl or the bitcoin.com Bowl.  That game is scheduled for 8pm

ECU gets up for teams that are from named programs or other in state school.  They will get a shot at the Southeastern  Conference when they meet Florida in the Birmingham Bowl.  That game is on January 3rd at noon.

It is really nice to say you have gone to a Bowl game but Carolina and State are playing the day after Christmas.  These two games are not top tier games and can either school sell their quota on top of Christmas.  Duke's game at least is on the weekend  but can Duke sell that many tickets  for El Paso.  ECU game is on New Years weekend and I think they will sell out their allotment.

Rumors have been  flying for more than a year now and it is finally it has come to past as Kevin Crudup has resigned as the football coach at Nash Central.  He leaves Nash Central having lost the last 24 games he coached which is the third longest active streak in North Carolina High school football.  Now those rumors about who wants the job are on fire  even more. 

The big question is always when a coach leaves or gets canned  is there anyone on staff qualified to take over the program?  You know the perception ever since Nash Central was opened that Nash Central had and has  good athletes and would be a good program to coach.  The perception to the outside world now is that the administration  at Nash Central views sports as a necessary evil and to find a coach that wants to coach at a school under those circumstances will be hard to find a quality coach from the outside world.