Winter Sports Season Is Over

Already this year the Big East has produced state champions in indoor track.  Rocky Mount football played in the state championship game in football.  The Big East was represented by Northern Nash boys in the semi finals of the east regionals in basketball. Even Rocky Mount girls played into the fourth round and if they had not made it Nash Central would have been there. So far this has been a rather good year in Big East sports.

It has been about two weeks now since Mark Gottfried was  released as the NC State basketball team. Anybody remember in the preseason when the Pack players were touting how much talent this team had.  Some where along the way the players have never realized that playing as a team produces success If there was and hope that Gottfried  getting cut loose would inspire the team to play better was sadly mistaken.

This modern world we live in people can give their opinions and the whole world knows about it in seconds.  If the next coach at NC State comes from the twitter wish list then it will be former Wolfpack point  guard Archie Miller.  He is a former player, graduate assistant,  former assistant coach and now is working on his fifth year winning 20 games in a season at Dayton.

Miller's wife in the past week with all the rumors swirling has sent out a tweet of a picture of her  doing the Wolfpack sign with her hand. The Wolfpack nation has gone twitter crazy since then.

The Wolfpack nation will truly be in depression If He fails to take or get the job.

Heading into next week's ACC tournament looks like Carolina if they stay healthy could be right back in the NCAA finals again.  They have been the most consistent team in the ACC all year.  All of the money grab that has gone on in order that each school can get 50 million dollars a year from TV over 5 million has surely changed the landscape of college sports.

No longer does ECU go to William and Mary for a Conference game but to Tulsa Oklahoma.  The eight team ACC use to be you could get in your car on a Saturday morning and ride to Washington to see a conference football game.  It use to be that the Tar Heel state was the center of the universe of the ACC.  15 teams has diluted the product.  It is that way now that in order to watch TV you pay to watch the news.  We are set up for the day that in order to watch any type of sporting event that will be a premium charge to see it. 

This has all happened in the name of progress.  I dream of the day of the old way.  It was so much more enjoyable.