Today Rocky Mount High School announced all the coaching changes made for the upcoming 2015/2016 season and the headliner is the return of former baseball coach Pat Smith to take over the reins of the program once again.
His seven years as coach the first time around the Gryphons won four conference titles and one state championship in 2008. While gone to RMA he took RMA to the state final series once. It should be no surprise to any who has ridden by the school lately. Smith has be redesigning the baseball field for the past several weeks.
Smith takes over for the man that replaced him Kent Cox. Cox moved over to Nash Central to coach football with former friend and coach at Rocky Mount Chris Lee. Cox ran the Gryphon baseball program for five seasons.
Smith who won a state championship while in high school at Robersonville and two state baseball titles while a high school head coach. He play American legion baseball for both Greenville and Rocky Mount during his Legion days.
Here is a list of the other new Gryphon coaches this season. Cheerleading head coach Shira Parish. assistant Brittany Williams. New assistant coaches in football Koron Nicholson, Michael Peebles and Carter Varnell.
Volleyball head coach JV Heather Hunter. Hunter a former Gryphon VB player. Boys soccer head coach Jordan Musselwhite and Juan Hormazabal JV head coach. Boys and girls golf Michael Likaker. Wrestling asst. Jason Rierson. Head softball Darrell McCalop head coach moving up from jv.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Philip Rivers Staying A Charger
The 2015 NFL football season is the last season under the six year deal Philip Rivers signed in 2009. That contract was for a dollar or two 93 million. That came on the heels of his six year rookie contract of 60 million.
There is plenty of chaos in San Diego right now. The City and the Chargers has been negotiating for 15 years about a new stadium and the fight has intensified with San Diego signing on as one of three teams that may move to Carson California or another site in LA. The city has been told by the Chargers they must be an agreement in place for a new stadium by September 15th or they will pursue moving in 2016.
Philip Rivers has said all preseason that he wanted no part of moving up I-4 to LA. If he was to sign on any longer with the Chargers he wanted that done by training camp which was missed by 17 days.
Rivers has stated in the past that he wanted to finish his career as a Charger in San Diego and then move home to Alabama to be a high school coach. He didn't want to uproot has family of seven kids five girls and two boys and another on the way until his NFL career was over.
Does this give us a hint that the Chargers are staying south of LA? Probably not but it guarantees that Philip Rivers will retire a Charger anytime now and the end of the 2019 season. By the way he will stand behind the center each year for 21 million dollars. Without a Super Bowl on his resume' how does Rivers command this kind of money.
The nine years he has been a starting quarterback he has had more different lineman thrown to more receivers than any other quarterback during that span. All this means is he has had less up front healthy linemen than any other quarterback and it didn't care who was there to catch it he would throw it under more pressure than any quarterback during that time and throw it where regardless of who the receiver was could catch it.
During his nine years as a starting quarterback he has the second longest game streak of 144. He is third in wins with 88 trailing only Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Seven straight Years with at least 25 touchdown passes tied with Peyton and Drew Brees which is and all time NFL record. He is 16th on all time NFL list td passes 252 needs three more to be all time Charger leader. He is 20th in passing yardage with 36,655. He holds the all time NFL record of five straight games with 20 passing attempts and a passer rating of over 120.
Still today is is 7th in NCAA history in passing yards 13,484. Still holds NC State passing records in yardage, pass attempts. Pass completions, completion percentage, 19 passing games over 300 yards and 7 games over 400 yards. He is the all time wins leader at State with 34.
I am glad there is a chance to watch Philip Rivers for at least five more years if he decides to play.
There is plenty of chaos in San Diego right now. The City and the Chargers has been negotiating for 15 years about a new stadium and the fight has intensified with San Diego signing on as one of three teams that may move to Carson California or another site in LA. The city has been told by the Chargers they must be an agreement in place for a new stadium by September 15th or they will pursue moving in 2016.
Philip Rivers has said all preseason that he wanted no part of moving up I-4 to LA. If he was to sign on any longer with the Chargers he wanted that done by training camp which was missed by 17 days.
Rivers has stated in the past that he wanted to finish his career as a Charger in San Diego and then move home to Alabama to be a high school coach. He didn't want to uproot has family of seven kids five girls and two boys and another on the way until his NFL career was over.
Does this give us a hint that the Chargers are staying south of LA? Probably not but it guarantees that Philip Rivers will retire a Charger anytime now and the end of the 2019 season. By the way he will stand behind the center each year for 21 million dollars. Without a Super Bowl on his resume' how does Rivers command this kind of money.
The nine years he has been a starting quarterback he has had more different lineman thrown to more receivers than any other quarterback during that span. All this means is he has had less up front healthy linemen than any other quarterback and it didn't care who was there to catch it he would throw it under more pressure than any quarterback during that time and throw it where regardless of who the receiver was could catch it.
During his nine years as a starting quarterback he has the second longest game streak of 144. He is third in wins with 88 trailing only Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Seven straight Years with at least 25 touchdown passes tied with Peyton and Drew Brees which is and all time NFL record. He is 16th on all time NFL list td passes 252 needs three more to be all time Charger leader. He is 20th in passing yardage with 36,655. He holds the all time NFL record of five straight games with 20 passing attempts and a passer rating of over 120.
Still today is is 7th in NCAA history in passing yards 13,484. Still holds NC State passing records in yardage, pass attempts. Pass completions, completion percentage, 19 passing games over 300 yards and 7 games over 400 yards. He is the all time wins leader at State with 34.
I am glad there is a chance to watch Philip Rivers for at least five more years if he decides to play.
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