Lookout for Family

We all who work in the workplace have rival companies that compete for business.  Sports is the same but coaches in each different sport are a fraternity of brothers who love to beat each other but whenever one is down on their luck those others don't want to see any one suffer.

We head toward the possible biggest week in Big East football this season and Head Coach Brian Foster of Southern Nash missed all of last week with his Firebirds as he had family issues that took priority.  Coach Foster wife Kim and son Zach were headed to the beach last weekend when they possibly had a flat tire.  Zack the freshman backup quarterback at North Carolina Wesleyan was driving and while trying to slowdown their car flipped over jumped across the guard rail on I 40 and hit head  on a with another  car  near Wimington on I-40.

The Foster's have multiple injuries to their legs, ankles, and feet.  Each team regardless of who you pull for you want to beat everyone.  You do want every team to be at their best when you play them.  I hope coach Foster can get back on the field with his team this week which would mean his family is getting better.  We pray all will be well as time passes to Kim and Zack Foster.

I think the answer to the question when was the last conference win for Nash Central was 2012.  There is no doubt that Chris Lee has turn the Bulldog program around nicely in his  year and a half.  They should be set to compete for a conference championship next season when they drop to 2-A.

I think up coming in the football playoffs there will be a change in the seedings process.  Look for the top two teams in each conference to be seeded by conference rank and then the rest going off overall record.  That should eliminate 2-8 teams from getting in the playoffs but it will reward teams who played a light non conference schedule to be seeded higher than some who played tougher outside games.

I would suspect you had better be there early Friday night at Southern Nash when Rocky Mount pays a visit.  At Southern in recent years has not been friendly for the Gryphons.  This game most likely being  for the top seed in the conference should be one of the biggest crowds ever in Southern history.
There has been plenty of confusion this season moving up varsity football to 7pm.  Remember kickoff is 7 Friday night.