The Computer Generation

The is no doubt that the last twenty years of my life I have received move information than I did my first forty.  I think I can expand that and say I have been inundated just the last year with more information than the last twenty.  A computer can aid greatly your life.  We have become a society that we have to put on Facebook where we went to eat or what time we are planning to go to bed.  Who Cares about all that.  We can not live unless we are using that computer.

Even in Chapel Hill the NCHSAA has come solely dependent on the computer that they are paralyzed if they have to make a change in what the computer rankings tell them.  There is no one in Chapel  Hill that can look at the pairings and say: "you know Southern Nash is the top seed in the east is a member of The Big East and they are matched up with Northern Nash an eight seed also from the Big East.  We can not let any conference members play each other in the first round."

I have no problem that those match ups start happening in the second round like what might happen if Rocky Mount can best Southern Lee they would play either Northern or Southern Nash.  But,  somebody in Chapel Hill needs to make an executive decision that we need to over ride the computer and move Northern Nash to a seven seed.  How easy could that be?  I have not cared to check all eight levels of the playoffs and I know this is not the only time two conference members are match up this Friday.

Our nation is becoming a robot society that we no longer have an ability to think for ourselves.  We have to check the computer before we decide  if is time to eat.  My belly lets me know that and my belly is telling me we need to get back to common sense in matters of creating a playoff format.

The Big East is sending five teams to the playoffs and two of them could be out by week of week two losing to another conference member.  This is the state playoffs not the Big East football tournament.

The Big East all season has had Friday night kickoffs at 7pm but all of the state playoffs start at 7:30. Please take note.