Montrezl Featured On ESPN.COM

One day last week ESPN.COM ran a story on Louisville basketball player Montrezl Harrell the former North Edgecombe and Edgecombe County basketball star who now as a junior may very well be heading to the NBA  after this season.

The story is titled Friends Keep him in line.  It is a story about his friends coming up through the AAU days and those that were teammates.  It includes many names that if you are a high school basketball fan of the area you will recognize from this area. I don't know how you access ESPN archives but I know you can pull it up on Google at Montrezl Harrell Friends keep him in line or m.espn.go.com/ncb/storyline=12467742.  It is another story I think you will enjoy about people from our area.

I have talked about this many times where the want-a-bees wanting to move up to the high rent district and they get a win over one of those Wall Street teams.  Last week State beat one of those Wall Street teams in Duke and stormed the court to celebrate.  The very next game after the massive celebration State starts out the game kind of in la-la land and Carolina who is also a Wall Street team  sends the want-a-bees  back to the low rent district.  Maybe beating this year's Duke team is like ECU's football wins  that when all the smoke clears it wasn't all that much.

ECU football had the same problem in football after beating both Carolina and Virginia Tech.  The season proved out that both those wins were just against average teams.  At the time of both games ECU had beaten teams that they wanted to mirror.  ECU got so high beating those two that they had a hard time playing Joe Average team there after.

How does Alabama stay so close to the top in football every year.  The view from the Pent house is a lot different than the basement.  When you stand in the penthouse beating Auburn is just another win.  Yes it is big in the State of Alabama but no storming the field because it's just another win.

Today there is relief for Carolina fans that they beat State but there is no conformation in beating State that Carolina will win the National Championship.  State's victory over Duke gave Pack fans hope that maybe  1974 and 1983 is  on the horizon again.

Every team has their rivals and don't care who you are you get up for those games regardless of how good that team is that year.  Does the State Carolina Rivalry mean more to State or Carolina?  Carolina will not admit it because as the Wall Street team they don't want to lose to the team from Brooklyn.  State when they do win tend to go over board and Carolina's pressure in that game is to keep State from going overboard.

State fans or ECU fans and remember when we talk about football Carolina is a want-a-bee they tend to when they get that taste  of beating those Wall Street teams get high off success.  It's like when I'm dieting and lose 20 pounds.  The first time I eat a piece of chocolate I go overboard for more and get fat again. The want-a-bees fall right back in government subsidized housing and have to start make the climb out of the low rent district.

Yes people are just like that too.  Win a million in the lottery and three years later right back where you were before the win because went go over  board over this that are not natural to us.  There is an old saying in football that when you score a touchdown act like you been there before.  The State's  and ECU's of the world just don't get to stay long enough in the high rent district to learn how to act as a Wall Streeter.  They get there ever so often and like the feeling when they are there and would like to get that feeling more.

Congratulations are in store for the Nash Rocky Mount schools Athletic Director Angie Miller.  She has won the Distinguished Service Award from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administration Association.  The Distinguished Service is for her length of service, Special accomplishments  and her contributions to interscholastic Athletes in local, State and national level.   Way to Go Angie!!!!