Conference Play Begins Friday

Nash Central started the year with two major streaks going that they would like to see disappear.  The football program had sunk so low that they had lost 25 straight games and part of those 25 12 were conference games.  So for the Bulldogs went through two straight  years without a win.

The management at Nash Central went looking and they settled on Chris Lee a former BW Holt  disciple from the six years Holt was at Rocky Mount.  Craving to prove his worth as a head coach Lee left at the end of first semester 08/09 and moved up the road to Louisburg to be head football coach.

While coaching under Holt Lee was the head JV coach in charge of offense while Kent Cox took the defense.  That combo went 48-3 in their six years leading the Rocky Mount JV program.  Lee had no idea  that by the end of the school year in 09 that Holt  would leave Rocky Mount and if he was still on the Gryphon staff just maybe he would have been named the head coach of the Gryphons then.  Lee has proven himself as a head coach  in Louisburg while Cox moved to the Gryphon baseball program after the departure of Pat Smith.

January of this year Chris Lee came to Nash Central as head coach.  Rumors were floating around in February that Lee wanted Cox to join him  on Carriage Road.  Rumors roared all baseball season and spilled into summer baseball before the word that Cox was heading to the Bulldogs.

Of the two streaks sticking in the gut of Bulldogs they took care of the losing streak which had reached 25 before victory.  Everyone says lookout for those Bulldogs.  The next four games have not brought victory for the Bulldogs so still staring them in the face is the 12 game conference losing streak.

How much do the stars line up when Chris Lee's first chance to break the conference losing streak comes against a school that helped get him a head coaching job?  How much do you think Kent Cox wants to beat the team in which he has spent most of his adult life.  Those two coaches will have their
Bulldogs wired  to a level they have not seen at Nash Central maybe ever in the short history of the school.

Rocky Mount has shown they could be one of the best teams in Big East or even all of the east in the 3-A football.  They need to understand the Nash Central team that they will play Friday this is their game of the year.  If Rocky Mount wants to play the game of the year later in the year they can not let the Bulldogs  stay in this game.

Jason Battle needs to make his Gryphons think this is their game of the year.  It will be if they lose Friday because they will have fallen to the bottom.  It is hard in the Big East to climb out of a hole created by losing to the team you were suppose to beat.  The Big East there simply are not many games where you are favored.  Most games each week are pick'em.  You had better win all the games you are suppose to win.  Should be a tremdous crowd on hand Friday night.