The Rocky Mount Gryphons are experiencing what they have administered to most teams for the past two decades since I have been living in Rocky Mount. They tended to have the upper hand, made the right decisions down the stretch and made more than their share of clutch shots when needed. Heading into Tuesday nights trip to Hunt the Gryphons find themselves in a win or just maybe not make the playoffs.
Trailing Hunt by two games 4-2 against 2-4 a lost would put the Gryphons at three games back with three to play in order to finish first. The position they stand now it is almost to the point forget first just try to make the playoffs. Trailing four of the teams closes to them in the standing by a single game second place is feasible but a lost to Hunt puts them no closer to second, third,fourth or fifth.
A victory over Hunt would put the Gryphons just one game from first and with the schedule being the way it is somebody would join them in last again. It could be at sunrise Wednesday could have three teams at 4-3 and three at 3-4 with three games to play. The bottom line is unless the Gryphons can take down Hunt this could be their last stand for this season.
Rocky Mount 9-6 2-4 @ Hunt 4-2 12-7: Hunt dominated in Rocky Mount so this will be a tall task for the Gryphons.
The Girls action Rocky Mount 8-7 3-3 @ Hunt 14-5 4-2: when the Lady Gryphons get good guard play they have a shot to beat everyone but Northern. Had Hunt by double digits but could not hold on at home. Now down two games to Northern the Lady Warriors can't lose any more ground.
Nash Central 11-6 3-3 @ Fike 12-5 3-3: The winner could be tied for first but for sure the loser could be two back with three to play.
Nash Central Girls 11-9 2-4 @ Fike 8-9 3-3: Now that Northern leads by two games it is a sprint to the finish line for second. NC is in fifth and if they are to be in it to the finish they need this one.
Southern Nash 11-8 3-3 @ Northern Nash 6-11 3-3: The Firebirds romped by 18 the first time around but right now Northern is the hottest team in the league.
Southern Nash 0-19 0-6 @ Northern Nash 17-0 6-0: Regardless whether it's a boys team or girls this year's conference race is you can switch uniforms and they all look the same except in this game. Switch uniforms in this one and Northern still wins in a Southern Uniform.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Tickled Pink
One of the facts of life about getting old is as you try to teach your children about life as they move along in life you tend to repeat stories. People get tire of the same old stories but today I am going to rehash some of a story from my past because I am just too happy to hold back.
You have heard me say here before about my adventures as the batboy for the Ahoskie American Legion baseball team. My time was 1963-64- 65. During that time I saw several players past through that program that they became greater in sports or life as they continued their journey through life.
I have also told of the story that my father loved high school football and every Friday night we were following Ahoskie High or when the playoffs rolled around our conference champion of the Albemarle conference. So we saw a lot of football through almost all of November every year as I was growing up.
My two favorite players from Legion ball during my time were twins Freddie and Francis Combs from Winfall. In 1962 led by quarterback Francis Combs and halfback Freddie Combs Perquimans High won State football titles in 1962 and 1963. I remember watching Perquimans beat Havelock at the new Ficklen Stadium at ECU when only one side of the stadium was the cement stadium and the far side was bleachers.
The best my memory serves me Freddie on one play took a toss sweep around the left end and broke out in the open with only one man to beat and as that player tried to tackle him Freddie jumped right over top him and continued on for about a 70 yard touchdown. I remember the score as 34-7 Perquimans. I thought Freddie Combs was the fastest man alive. Didn't have stop watches and such to tell us how fast he really was but he could scoot.
On the baseball field Freddie was the shortstop and pitcher. He was a right good pitcher but he had a teammate by the name of Jimmy Hunter on his team so nobody noticed how good he was as a pitcher in high school. He pitched plenty in Legion but boy could he play shortstop.
Both the Combs brothers sign with N C State and Freddie is going to be a defensive back on the football team and play baseball and Francis is going to play baseball. Once I heard my two hero's were going to State right then and there I became a Wolfpack fan. I had liked them all Carolina, Duke, ECU, Wake until the spring of 1964.
Freddie became an All American defensive back for the Pack and appeared on the Bob Hope show when they announced the team nationwide. He also led the nation in punt returns. His senior baseball season he played the outfield in 1968 when the Wolfpack went to the College World Series for the first time.
Over the years about the only time I would see Freddie or Francis was at State football, basketball or baseball games. The spring of 2013 I wrote a story about the Ahoskie Legion team championship season of 1963 and since 2013 was the 50th anniversary of that team I interviewed all those on the team for the article. We spent a good hour talking about life back then.
Today I am tickled pink to know that this past week Freddie Combs was announced to be one of the 2015 inductees into the North Carolina Sports Hall Of Fame. I almost feel like I'm going in the Hall of Fame to know one of my hero's has made it.
You have heard me say here before about my adventures as the batboy for the Ahoskie American Legion baseball team. My time was 1963-64- 65. During that time I saw several players past through that program that they became greater in sports or life as they continued their journey through life.
I have also told of the story that my father loved high school football and every Friday night we were following Ahoskie High or when the playoffs rolled around our conference champion of the Albemarle conference. So we saw a lot of football through almost all of November every year as I was growing up.
My two favorite players from Legion ball during my time were twins Freddie and Francis Combs from Winfall. In 1962 led by quarterback Francis Combs and halfback Freddie Combs Perquimans High won State football titles in 1962 and 1963. I remember watching Perquimans beat Havelock at the new Ficklen Stadium at ECU when only one side of the stadium was the cement stadium and the far side was bleachers.
The best my memory serves me Freddie on one play took a toss sweep around the left end and broke out in the open with only one man to beat and as that player tried to tackle him Freddie jumped right over top him and continued on for about a 70 yard touchdown. I remember the score as 34-7 Perquimans. I thought Freddie Combs was the fastest man alive. Didn't have stop watches and such to tell us how fast he really was but he could scoot.
On the baseball field Freddie was the shortstop and pitcher. He was a right good pitcher but he had a teammate by the name of Jimmy Hunter on his team so nobody noticed how good he was as a pitcher in high school. He pitched plenty in Legion but boy could he play shortstop.
Both the Combs brothers sign with N C State and Freddie is going to be a defensive back on the football team and play baseball and Francis is going to play baseball. Once I heard my two hero's were going to State right then and there I became a Wolfpack fan. I had liked them all Carolina, Duke, ECU, Wake until the spring of 1964.
Freddie became an All American defensive back for the Pack and appeared on the Bob Hope show when they announced the team nationwide. He also led the nation in punt returns. His senior baseball season he played the outfield in 1968 when the Wolfpack went to the College World Series for the first time.
Over the years about the only time I would see Freddie or Francis was at State football, basketball or baseball games. The spring of 2013 I wrote a story about the Ahoskie Legion team championship season of 1963 and since 2013 was the 50th anniversary of that team I interviewed all those on the team for the article. We spent a good hour talking about life back then.
Today I am tickled pink to know that this past week Freddie Combs was announced to be one of the 2015 inductees into the North Carolina Sports Hall Of Fame. I almost feel like I'm going in the Hall of Fame to know one of my hero's has made it.
Friday, January 30, 2015
The Zany Continues
You thought Hunt had complete control of Big East Boys basketball right. The team with the worse record overall Northern Nash has gone to Wilson County and come away with a 59-55 win. What has that done to the league. Hunt still sits atop of the league but there is a four way tied in the middle. Northern Nash, Nash Central, Southern Nash and Fike are all 3-3 while Rocky Mount sits in last at 2-4.
Darius Spragley lead Northern with 22 points while Tuesday's hero Adam Renner's added 18. That is two thirds of Northern' s scoring came from those two. Northern 3-3 6-11 Hunt falls 4-2 12-7.
It went down to the wire but Rocky Mount comes up short and Nash Central holds their home court in knocking of Rocky Mount 54-50. The Gryphons lose their third straight dropping to 2-4 9-6 while Nash Central jumps to 3-3 11-6
Just when it looks like one team has figured out how to be one of the best in the league they hit a bump in the road and all of a sudden they fall back to rest of the pack. Tonight Fike has knocked Southern Nash for a loop with a 73-70 win in Bailey. This league is nuts.
Home teams can't hold down their their own home court. Visiting teams play better at somebody else's court. Southern drops to 3-3 11-8 while Fike's ups their record to 3-3 12-5.
How far do you have to go back to to find where Rocky Mount lost three straight games? Hunt's lost put Rocky Mount still at two games out of first and still a shot to take the regular season title. Any team that wins three of the last four games can take first. Rocky Mount even not out of the running would have to win all four games they have left and hope for help. The way this season is unfolding it is not beyond the possibility that 6-4 could tie for first.
This basketball season has been full of intrigue with so many teams tied going into tonight's action and the mystery continues as the Rocky Mount Girls who on certain nights can't dribble or shoot but when it comes to playing Nash Central they play like world beaters. Tonight the Lady Gryphons on the home court of the Lady Bulldogs get their conference record back to 500 as they down Nash central 63-45. Now 3-3 8-7 the Lady Gryphons hold any tie breaker with Nash Central that might be in the future. Nash Central 2-4 11-9 has half there conference losses administered by Rocky Mount.
Darius Spragley lead Northern with 22 points while Tuesday's hero Adam Renner's added 18. That is two thirds of Northern' s scoring came from those two. Northern 3-3 6-11 Hunt falls 4-2 12-7.
It went down to the wire but Rocky Mount comes up short and Nash Central holds their home court in knocking of Rocky Mount 54-50. The Gryphons lose their third straight dropping to 2-4 9-6 while Nash Central jumps to 3-3 11-6
Just when it looks like one team has figured out how to be one of the best in the league they hit a bump in the road and all of a sudden they fall back to rest of the pack. Tonight Fike has knocked Southern Nash for a loop with a 73-70 win in Bailey. This league is nuts.
Home teams can't hold down their their own home court. Visiting teams play better at somebody else's court. Southern drops to 3-3 11-8 while Fike's ups their record to 3-3 12-5.
How far do you have to go back to to find where Rocky Mount lost three straight games? Hunt's lost put Rocky Mount still at two games out of first and still a shot to take the regular season title. Any team that wins three of the last four games can take first. Rocky Mount even not out of the running would have to win all four games they have left and hope for help. The way this season is unfolding it is not beyond the possibility that 6-4 could tie for first.
This basketball season has been full of intrigue with so many teams tied going into tonight's action and the mystery continues as the Rocky Mount Girls who on certain nights can't dribble or shoot but when it comes to playing Nash Central they play like world beaters. Tonight the Lady Gryphons on the home court of the Lady Bulldogs get their conference record back to 500 as they down Nash central 63-45. Now 3-3 8-7 the Lady Gryphons hold any tie breaker with Nash Central that might be in the future. Nash Central 2-4 11-9 has half there conference losses administered by Rocky Mount.
Records Are Deceiving
Five of the six Big East basketball teams have winning records that exceed a 60 percent winning ratio. That a nice percentage of 83 per cent of the league. That's their overall records but when you start to analyze the conference teams this year the league is full of so so average teams. Four have lost more than they have won 2-3. Only two of the six made it through the first round of games able to win more than they lost.
Hunt 12-6 4-1 right now is heading down the backstretch with the lead. They look like a lead horse. They have a fairly big front line and guards to handle any pressure any up and comer can throw at them. Look back a month ago I predicted Hunt to win the regular season despite at that time being only 6-4. They played a tough schedule. It is hard to penalize any team about their schedule when yearly they play people near them and there is always this factor other teams wanting to play you. There are years that your schedule is not good because the teams on it are having a bad year. Hunt's case is they got caught playing several really good non conference games early.
I saw in the Telegram after Southern Nash 11-7 3-2 beat Nash Central that Robbie Kennedy stated that a lineup change had made a really big difference for his team in a positive way. Whether we think about this but teams change lineups more than you think. Injuries leads the way and why one player sits while another plays. Kennedy made his move and what the move has done for his team is it has made every part fit. I look a lot better in clothes that fit over ones I wear when the button is about to pop off because I have out grown it. Southern is a talented bunch and they can be a force when they play as one.
There is no doubt this is a transition year for Rocky Mount 9-5 2-3. No longer the big bad wolf in size compared to everyone else they have gotten really good guard play and when you look at past years with the play they have now why is it they have led just the last week late in the game against Southern and Northern an yet lost. It is not necessarily guard play but foul shooting, poor choices when to shoot and when not to.
Nash Central 10-6 2-3 is just like everyone else in that 2-3 tight battle for third-fourth-fifth- sixth. We already know who ever finishes last in the league will be no worse that 2-8. The way we stand at the midway point I can't see any not at least finish 3-7. During my preseason picks I picked the Bulldogs for last. Right now they are right on schedule so if they are on schedule about half of this league is way behind in their schedule. Central has played better during the first round of conferences games than I saw at the Christmas tournament. If they improve as much the second go round as the first they will contend for a playoff spot.
Fike 11-5 2-3 I thought during their nonconference campaign had the easiest schedule of every conference member. They have been up and down getting crushed by Rocky Mount at home and then beating Southern at Southern. They have been a yo yo so far. They are like so many teams in this league if they get hot they could still be the best team in the league.
Northern Nash 5-11 2-3. Had about as tough a luck as you can have during many games in December. Lack a big man like so many others that keeps them from being a real contender. They knocked off Hunt and Rocky Mount at home so their next step is beating somebody on the road. If that starts happening more than once their overall record will start to improve and with it their conference standing.
Action tonight finds Northern traveling to Hunt a team they have already bit once. Rocky Mount is at Nash Central and Southern is at Fike. Let's wait till midnight to find out how many ties we have now.
Finally, who will win the Super Bowl. I'm pulling for the Seahawks but with Sherman and Thomas hurting in the secondary for the Hawks I find it hard for Seattle to slow down the Pats. If they were healthy I think it would be the Hawks all the way. NE 27 Seattle 20
Hunt 12-6 4-1 right now is heading down the backstretch with the lead. They look like a lead horse. They have a fairly big front line and guards to handle any pressure any up and comer can throw at them. Look back a month ago I predicted Hunt to win the regular season despite at that time being only 6-4. They played a tough schedule. It is hard to penalize any team about their schedule when yearly they play people near them and there is always this factor other teams wanting to play you. There are years that your schedule is not good because the teams on it are having a bad year. Hunt's case is they got caught playing several really good non conference games early.
I saw in the Telegram after Southern Nash 11-7 3-2 beat Nash Central that Robbie Kennedy stated that a lineup change had made a really big difference for his team in a positive way. Whether we think about this but teams change lineups more than you think. Injuries leads the way and why one player sits while another plays. Kennedy made his move and what the move has done for his team is it has made every part fit. I look a lot better in clothes that fit over ones I wear when the button is about to pop off because I have out grown it. Southern is a talented bunch and they can be a force when they play as one.
There is no doubt this is a transition year for Rocky Mount 9-5 2-3. No longer the big bad wolf in size compared to everyone else they have gotten really good guard play and when you look at past years with the play they have now why is it they have led just the last week late in the game against Southern and Northern an yet lost. It is not necessarily guard play but foul shooting, poor choices when to shoot and when not to.
Nash Central 10-6 2-3 is just like everyone else in that 2-3 tight battle for third-fourth-fifth- sixth. We already know who ever finishes last in the league will be no worse that 2-8. The way we stand at the midway point I can't see any not at least finish 3-7. During my preseason picks I picked the Bulldogs for last. Right now they are right on schedule so if they are on schedule about half of this league is way behind in their schedule. Central has played better during the first round of conferences games than I saw at the Christmas tournament. If they improve as much the second go round as the first they will contend for a playoff spot.
Fike 11-5 2-3 I thought during their nonconference campaign had the easiest schedule of every conference member. They have been up and down getting crushed by Rocky Mount at home and then beating Southern at Southern. They have been a yo yo so far. They are like so many teams in this league if they get hot they could still be the best team in the league.
Northern Nash 5-11 2-3. Had about as tough a luck as you can have during many games in December. Lack a big man like so many others that keeps them from being a real contender. They knocked off Hunt and Rocky Mount at home so their next step is beating somebody on the road. If that starts happening more than once their overall record will start to improve and with it their conference standing.
Action tonight finds Northern traveling to Hunt a team they have already bit once. Rocky Mount is at Nash Central and Southern is at Fike. Let's wait till midnight to find out how many ties we have now.
Finally, who will win the Super Bowl. I'm pulling for the Seahawks but with Sherman and Thomas hurting in the secondary for the Hawks I find it hard for Seattle to slow down the Pats. If they were healthy I think it would be the Hawks all the way. NE 27 Seattle 20
Thursday, January 29, 2015
If It Is Going To Happen
So far this basketball season Northern Nash girls opened the season against 4-A East Wake with a four point win. Early in December another four point game to 4-A Conley. Other than those two games Northern Nash has not been pressed by anybody no way no how. Their average victory margin for the season is 24 points a game. Big East play is almost twenty six per game.
If there is to be someone who thinks they just might clip the Lady Knights then Friday night is going to have to be the night. Friday starts the second time around in conference play and the unbeaten Knights travel to Hunt who is led by six one Brionna Pate who when all is said and done this year just might be the Big East player of the year. She is averaging almost 19 points per game for the Lady Warriors who have worked their record to 14-4 overall and 4-1 in conference play.
Don't all you Northern fans jump up and down and say how can the top player in the league not be from Northern? Pate has been the one man wrecking crew for Hunt. Northern has so many good players that it appears they are winning as a team while for Hunt it has been that they got one really good one.
If Northern was to fall during the regular season you would expect that Hunt has to be the team to do it. They lost by 18 at Northern first time around. The way the Knights have played against everyone this year you would almost say if Hunt can keep it under ten points would be a major accomplishment. If they can't who is left to give Northern a tussle?
I'm going to remind you can look it up if you wish but back in 2010 when in late January the Rocky Mount Gryphons were putting together their run to the state title I told everyone that they could win it all. I'm telling you right now the Northern Girls have a real chance to hang their second banner. Injuries are always a factor in the luck process of being healthy at the right time.
Luck just might be falling Northern's way. What I have seen all year as their biggest weakness is coming together at just the right time. Kianna Thomas has been terrific all season leading the Lady Knights in scoring, blocked shots and the like. Her height at six three she can be intimidating standing there waiting for you as you drive to the basket. If she gets in foul trouble or needs rest the Northern weakness all year has been at her back up.
Those of you that don't pay attention would not notice at all that Ceyanna Harrison has not played this year for Northern due to knee surgery she had. Just at the right time CC has played in the last three games for the first time this year. Is Northern getting ready to pull an 1983 N C State on everyone? CC was a major twin tower player last year and will probably be a backup for the rest of the season as she gets back into playing shape. Six feet three she is the hole filler for the only weakness that I can see in this Northern team unless another injury befalls this team.
So Northern 16-0 5-0 and Hunt 14-4 4-1 scrap for the top spot Friday three of the other four teams are battling for third or fifth. Rocky Mount 7-7 2-3 travels to Nash Central 11-7 2-3 and Southern 0-18 0-5 visits Fike7-9 2-3.
If there is to be someone who thinks they just might clip the Lady Knights then Friday night is going to have to be the night. Friday starts the second time around in conference play and the unbeaten Knights travel to Hunt who is led by six one Brionna Pate who when all is said and done this year just might be the Big East player of the year. She is averaging almost 19 points per game for the Lady Warriors who have worked their record to 14-4 overall and 4-1 in conference play.
Don't all you Northern fans jump up and down and say how can the top player in the league not be from Northern? Pate has been the one man wrecking crew for Hunt. Northern has so many good players that it appears they are winning as a team while for Hunt it has been that they got one really good one.
If Northern was to fall during the regular season you would expect that Hunt has to be the team to do it. They lost by 18 at Northern first time around. The way the Knights have played against everyone this year you would almost say if Hunt can keep it under ten points would be a major accomplishment. If they can't who is left to give Northern a tussle?
I'm going to remind you can look it up if you wish but back in 2010 when in late January the Rocky Mount Gryphons were putting together their run to the state title I told everyone that they could win it all. I'm telling you right now the Northern Girls have a real chance to hang their second banner. Injuries are always a factor in the luck process of being healthy at the right time.
Luck just might be falling Northern's way. What I have seen all year as their biggest weakness is coming together at just the right time. Kianna Thomas has been terrific all season leading the Lady Knights in scoring, blocked shots and the like. Her height at six three she can be intimidating standing there waiting for you as you drive to the basket. If she gets in foul trouble or needs rest the Northern weakness all year has been at her back up.
Those of you that don't pay attention would not notice at all that Ceyanna Harrison has not played this year for Northern due to knee surgery she had. Just at the right time CC has played in the last three games for the first time this year. Is Northern getting ready to pull an 1983 N C State on everyone? CC was a major twin tower player last year and will probably be a backup for the rest of the season as she gets back into playing shape. Six feet three she is the hole filler for the only weakness that I can see in this Northern team unless another injury befalls this team.
So Northern 16-0 5-0 and Hunt 14-4 4-1 scrap for the top spot Friday three of the other four teams are battling for third or fifth. Rocky Mount 7-7 2-3 travels to Nash Central 11-7 2-3 and Southern 0-18 0-5 visits Fike7-9 2-3.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Nip And Tuck
We have talked several times this year that all four Nash County High School teams were all a like. No big men but a team all the same size. This past Friday Rocky Mount and Southern two of those teams just alike went over time and tonight Northern hosting Rocky Mount go over time again and this game was close all the way.
It will not be decided until the end of overtime on senior Adam Renner's three as Northern gets themselves back in the playoff hunt as Rocky Mount is stung for the second game in a row when it looked like they had the game. 74-73. Northern moves up to 2-3 in the conference and Rocky Mount falls to 2-3.
Tonight Southern Nash has put their bid for the top division in the Big East beating Nash Central 63-56. The Firebirds go to 3-2 in league play and Nash Central drops to 2-3. Can you see a tend developing? Depending on the outcome at Fike there may be a four way tie for last at 2-3 should Hunt beat Fike.
The Lady Gryphons so far this season have been an every other team. Win one, lose one, one stretch they won two in a row then lost two straight. Having won on Friday then it's time for a loss especially since Northern Nash will be defending their home turf.
The unbeaten Lady Knights did what they have done to everyone they were bigger, faster and they were not going to give the Lady Gryphons any thought that they had a chance. Northern Nash whips Rocky Mount 62-29.
Hunt has control of second in league play as they go to 4-1 in Big East play knocking off Fike 55 -37
Northern at 5-0 leads Hunt by a game. Rocky Mount, Fike and depending on the Nash Central outcome at Southern there could be a three way tie at 2-3.
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It will not be decided until the end of overtime on senior Adam Renner's three as Northern gets themselves back in the playoff hunt as Rocky Mount is stung for the second game in a row when it looked like they had the game. 74-73. Northern moves up to 2-3 in the conference and Rocky Mount falls to 2-3.
Tonight Southern Nash has put their bid for the top division in the Big East beating Nash Central 63-56. The Firebirds go to 3-2 in league play and Nash Central drops to 2-3. Can you see a tend developing? Depending on the outcome at Fike there may be a four way tie for last at 2-3 should Hunt beat Fike.
The Lady Gryphons so far this season have been an every other team. Win one, lose one, one stretch they won two in a row then lost two straight. Having won on Friday then it's time for a loss especially since Northern Nash will be defending their home turf.
The unbeaten Lady Knights did what they have done to everyone they were bigger, faster and they were not going to give the Lady Gryphons any thought that they had a chance. Northern Nash whips Rocky Mount 62-29.
Hunt has control of second in league play as they go to 4-1 in Big East play knocking off Fike 55 -37
Northern at 5-0 leads Hunt by a game. Rocky Mount, Fike and depending on the Nash Central outcome at Southern there could be a three way tie at 2-3.
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The K Perspective
Duke's coach K won his 1000th college basketball game Sunday. They said on TV Sunday that 212 of college basketball's coaches have not won 1000 between them. There is not a coach in NBA history that has won more and they play at least 80 games every year. Red Aurabach 938 is the NBA leader,
Since K has been to Duke the Blue Devils have been ranked 85.7 per cent of the time. Duke was in year four of the K career before they made poll for first time. K has won 927 wins while at Duke. That alone would rank third on the all time wins list. His all time 1000 wins and Jim Beiheim 962.
K's teams have beaten Maryland the most 55 times. Georgia Tech has lost 53, Clemson 52, Virginia 52 and NC State 51 times. K has beat Carolina 40 times. Carolina has also beaten him the most 38 times. Wake Forest is next in beating Duke with 24 wins. That is also the same number for Maryland 24 and next State with 22.
K doesn't have all the records yet. He has won 421 ACC games. That second to Dean Smith 422. Teams that have a winning record over K stands at 10. Lafayette 1-4, Holy Cross 2-4, Iona 2-3, Kings College 0-1, Long Island 0-1. All those teams beat him while he was coach at Army.
The list is only five from division one. Arizona 3-5, Louisville 2-4, California, Tennessee and Stanford he is 1-2 against all three. He has the most wins all time but he is second in D one games coach 1307. That's second behind Jim Phelen at 1356.
During the Month of February he will turn 68 years old. He has good health but I hope this fabulous career doesn't end like that of either of the college football imortals Bobby Bowen stayed too long and Joe Paterno who covered up crimes.
You know during his career his mate wife Mickey has grounded him when ever he needed to be. It is my opinion that we will see K two more full years if his health keeps. One more Olympics and then one more full year at Duke. That would be the end of the 2017 season.
Ever how limited this statement might be but I have only seen two news conferences that when it was over the news media applauded the person who was being interviewed. The news media is suppose to be dignified and cover the story for the story not the person. When Arnold Palmer did his last interview playing at the Masters 400 news media personnel stood up when he walked away and the entire room gave him a standing ovation.
Sunday when the news conference was over in the bowels of Madison Square Garden in New York City the news media there and you would have thought Duke won the national championship cause the news media swarmed the place like State had beat Duke and took over the basketball floor. Once the Coach K news conference ended they all rose to applaud. Sunday was special for everyone who loves Duke, The ACC or basketball in generally.
Since K has been to Duke the Blue Devils have been ranked 85.7 per cent of the time. Duke was in year four of the K career before they made poll for first time. K has won 927 wins while at Duke. That alone would rank third on the all time wins list. His all time 1000 wins and Jim Beiheim 962.
K's teams have beaten Maryland the most 55 times. Georgia Tech has lost 53, Clemson 52, Virginia 52 and NC State 51 times. K has beat Carolina 40 times. Carolina has also beaten him the most 38 times. Wake Forest is next in beating Duke with 24 wins. That is also the same number for Maryland 24 and next State with 22.
K doesn't have all the records yet. He has won 421 ACC games. That second to Dean Smith 422. Teams that have a winning record over K stands at 10. Lafayette 1-4, Holy Cross 2-4, Iona 2-3, Kings College 0-1, Long Island 0-1. All those teams beat him while he was coach at Army.
The list is only five from division one. Arizona 3-5, Louisville 2-4, California, Tennessee and Stanford he is 1-2 against all three. He has the most wins all time but he is second in D one games coach 1307. That's second behind Jim Phelen at 1356.
During the Month of February he will turn 68 years old. He has good health but I hope this fabulous career doesn't end like that of either of the college football imortals Bobby Bowen stayed too long and Joe Paterno who covered up crimes.
You know during his career his mate wife Mickey has grounded him when ever he needed to be. It is my opinion that we will see K two more full years if his health keeps. One more Olympics and then one more full year at Duke. That would be the end of the 2017 season.
Ever how limited this statement might be but I have only seen two news conferences that when it was over the news media applauded the person who was being interviewed. The news media is suppose to be dignified and cover the story for the story not the person. When Arnold Palmer did his last interview playing at the Masters 400 news media personnel stood up when he walked away and the entire room gave him a standing ovation.
Sunday when the news conference was over in the bowels of Madison Square Garden in New York City the news media there and you would have thought Duke won the national championship cause the news media swarmed the place like State had beat Duke and took over the basketball floor. Once the Coach K news conference ended they all rose to applaud. Sunday was special for everyone who loves Duke, The ACC or basketball in generally.
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