I was just messing around at lunch time and went on the NCHSAA.org website and you can pull up the State wrestling championships. You can actually watch each wrestler's match as if it were on game tracker and every time there is a score or the end of a period the screen will change. So I am watching the Gryphons Wilson Smith match and he is up 2-0 and all of a sudden his match disappears from the screen. I then looked at matches complete and Wilson Smith the Gryphons 126 sophomore wrestler has won his first match of the day by pin but as they say in wrestling by fall at 47 seconds. Too bad I can't just sit here and watch all our wrestlers all day.
If you think back for those of you old enough in 1990 you had never heard the word cell phone. This past 25 years our lives have changed drastically and yes with all this technology our children are smarter than we were. They may not be developed brain wise to understand how the world operates but they sure know how to use a computer. Since there has hardly been any basketball what so ever this week the computer can just about tell us before the Saturday deadline what the brackets are going to be in the state basketball playoffs.
If you have been a watcher over the last several years of ESPN's bracketology first four in last four out you know that it changes every day due to who played last night and who won and loss. Since there has been no high school basketball this week the bracketology has not budged one bit and highschoolot.com has their brackets set and if they hold true come 2pm Saturday Monday night there will be a massive game at Northern Nash.
Bracketology says all six Big East boys teams are in by virtue of all of their overall records. Northern has the only losing record but by being 2nd in the Big East they are safe. Hunt the Big East champ will be seeded 6th, Northern Nash 15th and by making the top 16 both will earn home games Monday. Rocky Mount is slotted 18, Fike 22, Nash Central25/26/27th and Southern Nash 29th.
That is a wonderful thing that all six get in but you know like I know that there has been some match ups in the first round that for some reason the State ignores conference against conference and lets the chips fail where they may. Now when you were looking at Northern 15th and Rocky Mount 18th Northern as the second seed from the Big East is viewed because of record as the last seeded number two team. Rocky Mount because of record is a three seed and 18th would match Rocky Mount and Northern against each other Monday night at Northern.
Does anybody think that is fair for anybody? I doubt it. This weather situation we have had this week unless you practiced on Saturday February 9th you have not had a practice since Rocky Mount slaughtered Northern on the 8th. School shutdown early Monday preventing any after school activities and there hasn't been any school since to prevent any organized practice.
Undefeated we already know Northern Girls will be at home and depending on a tie breaker they could play a 3-16 team Monday or a 10-12 team. Can you imagine the crowd at Northern Monday night if RM/NN boys do wind up facing each other?
The rest of the Big East girls the computer is showing Hunt 13th and they just might grab Fike 20th in the first round. Nash central is pegged by the computer 27th and Rocky Mount 28th so five teams look in for the Big East. Northern would have home court advantage throughout the sectional and Hunt would get at least one home game. Everybody else hits the pavement for road games Monday. I will post as soon as I can the official bracket sometime this afternoon and we will be able to tell how accurate the bracketology computer is to the real results.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Cameron Crazies Understood
I think if you saw the pregame prayer on ESPN when Duke honored Dean Smith you saw why sports is such a great avenue of entertainment. Both North Carolina and Duke coaches, players managers and team doctors all knelt to one knee for a moment of silence for one of the greatest colleges basketball coaches of all time. The Cameron Crazies student were in total silence for a man that not one student in the crowd ever saw coach a game against Duke.
Sports is a way to go in all out combat against another player or team that when the game ends both sides can walk away in most cases healthy ready to play another day. While that combat is in progress you learn to respect your opponent because they can do on certain plays their objective better than you can. All during a game each side goes back and forth winning and losing each play and then all of a sudden time runs out and the game is over.
One sides celebrates a great victory while the other side suffers a great loss. There is always next game to help you get over the pain of a loss and for the winner he had better be on his game or the next game will be a loss for him.
The generals in sports are the coaches. Some generals win more battles than others. When two great generals collide it is like a chess match moving players here and there to help your side win. Despite how much Duke says they hate Carolina or Carolina says they hate Duke there is an understanding on both sides that both schools have great weaponry not only for this upcoming battle but every time you have ever met. You respect what they have, what they have had and what they will have when the next battle occurs.
Sports is the recognition that a player or coach or team can beat me at times but at times I can beat him. In order to do what he does I know he will win battles against me and I will win some off him. Sports is also the denial that while I am playing him I can not tell him he is beating me. If he knows I know he is winning then he has really won while the battle rages. I can't let him have one second of admission by me that he is winning. I can do that when it is over.
We as fans can be involved for one side or the other but we too must also know that we can't let my neighbor think he is winning while the game is in progress or even more the buildup leading up to the game. I can't let him think that he knows I know he's going to win.
Wednesday both sides acknowledged at the same time that one of the great generals was a great general something we couldn't say while he was coaching because if we acknowledge he was he had us beat. Those students ever how loud they can be understood that a giant of a man who coached for the other side needed their respect and they gave it.
You may remember I have spoke of this before when leaving Carter-Finley after Carolina had won 17-9. Right this second I forget the year. The game had gone down to the wire so every fan was there to the last second. Filing out took some time and I looked back and saw several players on both sides on one knee at mid field praying together. I made the comment then that is what is so special about sports you could fight hard during the game but when it is over shake hands, pray together or go have a beer together.
Wednesday night was one of those moments that I was glad I got to see it but it would have been that much better to have been in the building to live it. Then I could have been part of the 2 million people thirty years from now will say " I was there the night Duke honored Dean Smith".
Sports is a way to go in all out combat against another player or team that when the game ends both sides can walk away in most cases healthy ready to play another day. While that combat is in progress you learn to respect your opponent because they can do on certain plays their objective better than you can. All during a game each side goes back and forth winning and losing each play and then all of a sudden time runs out and the game is over.
One sides celebrates a great victory while the other side suffers a great loss. There is always next game to help you get over the pain of a loss and for the winner he had better be on his game or the next game will be a loss for him.
The generals in sports are the coaches. Some generals win more battles than others. When two great generals collide it is like a chess match moving players here and there to help your side win. Despite how much Duke says they hate Carolina or Carolina says they hate Duke there is an understanding on both sides that both schools have great weaponry not only for this upcoming battle but every time you have ever met. You respect what they have, what they have had and what they will have when the next battle occurs.
Sports is the recognition that a player or coach or team can beat me at times but at times I can beat him. In order to do what he does I know he will win battles against me and I will win some off him. Sports is also the denial that while I am playing him I can not tell him he is beating me. If he knows I know he is winning then he has really won while the battle rages. I can't let him have one second of admission by me that he is winning. I can do that when it is over.
We as fans can be involved for one side or the other but we too must also know that we can't let my neighbor think he is winning while the game is in progress or even more the buildup leading up to the game. I can't let him think that he knows I know he's going to win.
Wednesday both sides acknowledged at the same time that one of the great generals was a great general something we couldn't say while he was coaching because if we acknowledge he was he had us beat. Those students ever how loud they can be understood that a giant of a man who coached for the other side needed their respect and they gave it.
You may remember I have spoke of this before when leaving Carter-Finley after Carolina had won 17-9. Right this second I forget the year. The game had gone down to the wire so every fan was there to the last second. Filing out took some time and I looked back and saw several players on both sides on one knee at mid field praying together. I made the comment then that is what is so special about sports you could fight hard during the game but when it is over shake hands, pray together or go have a beer together.
Wednesday night was one of those moments that I was glad I got to see it but it would have been that much better to have been in the building to live it. Then I could have been part of the 2 million people thirty years from now will say " I was there the night Duke honored Dean Smith".
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