Another addition of the ACC basketball Tournament starts today with two games featuring the bottom of the rung in the ACC standings which now has 15 teams. The first time ever the Tuesday games will feature walk up to the ticket booth and buy a ticket. This year if you are holding on to tournament tickets your book of tickets does not start until the four games on Wednesday. Wonder if they sell five thousand tickets for watching the bottom rung of the ACC. The only thing that may save Tuesday is Wake Forest is playing in the second game and the Deac fans may show up more than the other three teams combined.
After this year the tournament leaves North Carolina heading to DC next and Brooklyn the year after. No longer with 15 teams does it matter that the geographic center of the league was North Carolina. No longer do the Big Four schools hold the upper hand that when games were played in Reynolds in Raleigh, the old Charlotte Coliseum, then the new Charlotte Coliseum, the Hornets building or Greensboro that Carolina and State fans would be waiting to buy up Clemson fans tickets the second they lost. No longer does every game played involve a North Carolina team.
All of this let's get big to compete for TV money give us in North Carolina the feeling that there is no longer and ACC much less a tournament. A trivia question to see if you are up on your ACC knowledge. What division is Duke in when playing football. If you had to go to your computer to find out you have lost you passion for the ACC.
The bigger the ACC gets the less the Big Four dominants the tournaments. A North Carolina team has not won the tournament since 2011. Virginia now dominants the ACC without Ralph Sampson. Even basketball dormat Miami has won a tournament since Duke or North Carolina has. Florida State a perennial bottom half basketball team has a title.
I think moving it to new venues is nice for everyone and if the ACC went to a high school formula when your team is host school every 15 years and when you are the host you pick the site of the tournament as long as it meets seating requirements. There are two teams in Florida so the ACC would go to Florida about every seven years. Atlanta is a nice venue, Wonder where Clemson would want as a home court. Maybe Atlanta or Charlotte. Our four North Carolina schools would get the tournament every four years. the only thing any of us who live in North Carolina loses in this new modern ACC is what I am going to do Wednesday. Get in my car drive to Greensboro for the day and come back to work Thursday. Brooklyn is a little bit far to do that.
High school baseball has had a hard time getting started with several teams not yet played a game. This weather has been harsh on fields in fact Rocky Mount with the sun out Saturday had to practice on the practice football field because the baseball field was unplayable. They will open their season today against SouthWest Edgecombe at 4pm on RMHS. Today's game is being taped by the "All New Sports Show" with yours truly behind the mic.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Simple Things Always Made Hard
Plenty of talk about what should the punishment be for any school that is caught cheating like Syracuse and for the most part who needs to get punished. Most of the so call cheating took place as far back as eight years ago. So do the upcoming Syracuse players get hit when the team will not have a scholarship to give out for four years.
I say this, If you want to stop cheating in college sports instead of taking away 108 past wins suspend Boeheim for at least a year or more. Make it like when you lose your driver license you must go to a driver training school to get you license back after you have been without them for a year. Take away a coaches ability to make a living. If assistant coaches are caught as part of the violators sit them too. The head coach is the captain of the basketball program and any thing his assistants do he is responsible for their actions. You see it is not all that hard to take action if the NCAA has the guts to.
Looks like Wednesday is unfolding nicely for me and Andy Holt as we venture to the ACC tournament. Nice to have a son-in-law that works for one of the ACC corporate sponsors. FSU and Clemson open up the action at Noon. Doubt we will see all of that one. The Tar Heel will swing into action at 2pm and I will cheer for the Heels. The WolfPack takes the floor at 7 against Pitt and Miami finishes off Wednesday night. I doubt seriously if I see much of that game before heading the road.
Hunt lost in the Eastern Regional finals to Terry Sanford 65-52. The final score was out of line to the flow of the game. Four minutes to go the score was 47-46 so Terry Sanford outscored Hunt 18-6 down the stretch.
About three weeks ago we told you of former Gryphon Collins Cuthrell who started off his senior year having transferred to UNC Pembroke. His first weekend to now Collins batting average has only slipped to one hit below 500 after 18 games.
He has been to the plate 80 times collecting 39 hits. Of his hits ten have been doubles and he has homered 12 times. By the way that is a 488 batting average. He has scored 30 runs and has driven 37 RBI. To say the least every time Collin has been to bat he has hit it some where because he has struck out only nine times. These are numbers that could make him a national player of the year candidate in division two baseball.
I say this, If you want to stop cheating in college sports instead of taking away 108 past wins suspend Boeheim for at least a year or more. Make it like when you lose your driver license you must go to a driver training school to get you license back after you have been without them for a year. Take away a coaches ability to make a living. If assistant coaches are caught as part of the violators sit them too. The head coach is the captain of the basketball program and any thing his assistants do he is responsible for their actions. You see it is not all that hard to take action if the NCAA has the guts to.
Looks like Wednesday is unfolding nicely for me and Andy Holt as we venture to the ACC tournament. Nice to have a son-in-law that works for one of the ACC corporate sponsors. FSU and Clemson open up the action at Noon. Doubt we will see all of that one. The Tar Heel will swing into action at 2pm and I will cheer for the Heels. The WolfPack takes the floor at 7 against Pitt and Miami finishes off Wednesday night. I doubt seriously if I see much of that game before heading the road.
Hunt lost in the Eastern Regional finals to Terry Sanford 65-52. The final score was out of line to the flow of the game. Four minutes to go the score was 47-46 so Terry Sanford outscored Hunt 18-6 down the stretch.
About three weeks ago we told you of former Gryphon Collins Cuthrell who started off his senior year having transferred to UNC Pembroke. His first weekend to now Collins batting average has only slipped to one hit below 500 after 18 games.
He has been to the plate 80 times collecting 39 hits. Of his hits ten have been doubles and he has homered 12 times. By the way that is a 488 batting average. He has scored 30 runs and has driven 37 RBI. To say the least every time Collin has been to bat he has hit it some where because he has struck out only nine times. These are numbers that could make him a national player of the year candidate in division two baseball.
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