When Is This Travesty Ending

Saturday was the annual Cardinal Gibbons state championship day.  They won the team title in tennis, won both the boys and girls cross country titles and volleyball.  Earlier in the week they won in golf.  They didn't win in boys soccer and football because those titles were not up for grabs as of yet.

My main beef with a private school playing in the public arena is they are not bound by any territory  like  where they can call their school district.  Rocky Mount, Northern and Nash Central are held that they must use player from their school district.

Any child from a Rocky Mount can attend Gibbons  but if you live in Raleigh you can not play sports in Nash County.  That to me is the only concern I have that which I think is too much of an advantage for any Private school or let's throw in prep schools in this equation too.  Every team needs  to have to play on level plains.

They have dominated the so called minor sports.  There have been periods of time when schools like Independance dominated the 4-A  football but they were average in other sports.  Rocky Mount High school still 51 years since is the only team in North Carolina history to win four straight titles two in football a basketball title and baseball all in a row.

Yet Cardinal Gibbons has won six straight volleyball and too many others to think they have been lucky to have such good talent in just one sport but all sports. Cardinal Gibbons reminds me of UNC that they are in total denial that they do any thing wrong.

There is only one way to solve this problem and for the public schools to vote them out.  When I say vote them out I'm not saying just Cardinal Gibbons but all Private and Prep schools. A few years ago more than half of the schools that voted, voted to oust the private schools but enough schools obstained from voting to not be enough to get them out.  It's time for a change.

Hunt has won in the second round of the soccer playoffs and are still alive.  They are the only Big East team.

You know we get so caught up in sports that we get put back in our place whenever we get a douse of life.  The Gryphon nation lost Teira Hinton in an auto accident and during the Southern Nash Rocky Mount football game Southern head coach Brian Foster fell to the ground from an apparent blood pressure issue.

Our lives are more than wins and losses and it is unfortunate that it takes a hurricane like Floyd, or a death of a child for us to come together to remember that life is what we are put on this earth to live for.  Then when a life is cut short especially one that many knew we come together for a period of time only to soon forget and we get back to wins and losses of life.   Wins and losses are  things that really don't matter in life.