Not Average Big East Year In Football

Every since all four Nash County Schools have been together in one conference with both Fike and Hunt and some of the time with Southwest Edgecombe you could just about count on the Big East having a team play in the Eastern Finals.  Not this year however.

Due to the fact that is has in the past been hard to go undefeated and sometimes a loss could drop you from first to fourth but still someone made it to the fourth game. This year like all of the past we thought we would have someone back there again this year but sorry no cigar for the Big East.

Why did we not have a eastern final team?  Just might be this year we got caught with other teams having some of their best teams ever.  Eastern Wayne is pretty dog gone good and do play in that 3-A/4-A league. Both Northern and Southern Guilford are having banner years.

Both Southern Nash and Rocky Mount found out that regardless of how good you might be give the other team a ball on the ground to recover  that is a highway to disaster.  Plain and simple this wasn't the Big East year.

It is mighty hard to begin basketball when football is not yet over.  Rocky Mount postponed it game with Rose since both were still in football playoffs.  Northern is the only team that played this week and the boys lost by 20 to East Wake  and the girls won 50-46 over East Wake.  Even this week is disrupted by Thanksgiving break.   Long for the days in both high school and college when the official first game was not played until December 1st.

Mike Gainey while he had Dante Battle for four years yearned for the day when Dante was going to become a monster and every shot was a rim rattling dunk.  Dante's personality just wasn't a look at me and see what I just did kind of guy.  Now Dante is at Wallace State playing Junior college basketball and if you have access to Dante's Facebook page he has a video of his first college dunk.  Wallace State doesn't do a very good job of updating their scores or stats.  As of November 5th they were 2-1 and when you click on stats nothing happens.

Duke football has hit hard times and I think when you look at Duke the first thing I see is how were they winning?  To me they were winning because of coaching but coaching has a hard time over coming poor quarterback play and the last few games  Duke has not had much good play.  How many other teams have the same problem.

State and Carolina will close out their football season Saturday in Kenan and I have looked back a long ways trying to see if this game has ever been the last game of the season for either before?  I don't think they have ever played past thanksgiving ever.  The News and Observer had a article in their Saturday paper whether Carolina should pass on the Bowl games this year considering that the NCAA is back investigating the latest findings.

Seems like it has been forever but get ready to record the Price Is Right Monday.  Back in September the 3rd. Pat and I were at a Taping and it will be shown Monday.  We might get 15 seconds of face time whenever the cameras were rolling.  Whenever they show from the stage  the audience we are on the second row on the left side.  I'm on the end of the row.  Hope our 15 seconds of fame doesn't get preempted from some type of national emergency and CBS cuts away.