Plateau Time

Charles Alston sent out an e-mail today updating everyone on the Tia Hudgins assault of 1,000 points in her career.  Through last Friday's game at South Central she is up to 991.  She so far this season she is averaging  near 15 points per game so if she hits her average Friday night against Rose she will become the fifth Gryphon woman to reach 1,000.

You would think a school that has almost 60 years of history  would have more than four people that had made a 1,000. points.  You have to remember that for almost all of those 60 years Rocky Mount was a senior high school where a player could only play three years of varsity basketball.

If a player started every game for three years and averaged 22 games per year  they would have to average 14 points a game  to hit the milestone.  1,000 points is a lot of points to score at any level.  Girls basketball hardly plays in front of a full house unless the boys game is a big one and you need to get a seat early.  Friday night when Tia hits #1,000 it is a very special time for her and her team.  Try to be there to see it happen.

I say that knowing that my family will not be there Friday.  Morgan who is a manager of both the boys and girls basketball team will be performing Friday night in Greenville with the Tar River Children's Chorus.  Odd isn't it Greenville Rose will be here and we will be in Greenville.

The Wolfpack Club announced on Monday that Wolfpack fans are heading to Charlotte on the 27th of December to see the Pack play Louisville in the Belk Bowl.  The Wolfpack Club sold the 12,500 tickets that they were required to buy for the Bowl game and had request and received another 10,000 tickets.  The Wolfpack Club has sold 24,000 tickets thus far and are looking for more.

Anyone who is a regular going to Bowl games know that the seats that the participating school get are not 50 yard line seats.  If you want to sit there you must buy them through the tickets sales at Bank Of America Stadium. The Belk Bowl announced today that 53,000 tickets have been sold so far.  If Louisville sells their  12,500 you can bet there will be  a sea of red at the game.  Louisville's prime color is red too.

So far there is no word from Carolina whether they have sold out their allotment for their game on December 26th in the heartland of the South Shreveport Louisiana.  You would not expect there to be a frenzy in Chapel Hill since Shreveport is not the garden spot of the world plus it's a 1,000 miles away and the game is the day after Christmas.

Taking Advanvantage Of Opportunities

Tim Tebow has done it again.  The Denver defense has kept him in another game in which they have scored less than 20 points and won again.  That is seven out of eight for Tebow as a starting quarterback in the NFL.  You have to give him credit regardless of how he does it, if he has a chance he thinks he can win and he has got his teammates believing.

If it is 20-0 with four minutes to go he has no chance.  Right now the playoff teams look like, New England, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Houston and the Jets.  Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Houston and the Jets could easily be 13-10 type  games but New England they will never beat scoring just 16 points or less.

There is no doubt that luck plays a big factor and sometimes you make your own luck.  Why did the Bears runner fumble as he is breaking through the line heading for what he thought was a game winning run?  A defender put his hand on the ball and knocked it away.  Denver didn't have anything to do with the runner running out of bounds to kill the clock for  the Bronco's.

Four weeks ago San Diego loses at the Bears  and they knock Jay Cutler our for the year, with it they knocked Chicago out too because they have no offense without Cutler.  Today without Cutler the Bears offense can't get out of their own way.  Denver took advantage of their luck.

They also because of the schedule got the Jets and Patriots at home while San Diego had to go to the Jets Patriots.  Denver beat the Jets and get New England next week and Chargers lost both on the road.  This next week will tell the tale on Tebow.  If they only score 10 or 13 they will lose by 24-13 or so but if they somehow win 16-13 they have a shot in playoffs.  It will be because of their defense.

Lost in all of this excitement about Tebow is John Fox.  Remember he is a defensive coach and even  went to the Super Bowl with the Panthers  with Jake Delhomme as the Panther QB.  Yes Tim Tebow just might be the right kind of quarterback for the kind of coach that John Fox is.

I find it hard for all the National Media who eight weeks ago had written Tebow off before  he had played in a fourth quarter.  I agree with them that Tebow is not very good from start to finish but boy right now he is the best at the finish or at least as long as his defense will keep the other side less than 20.  There is no one in the media that still thinks  he's any good.

  I find it hard to think ten years from now Tebow is still around.  He like Cam Newton they are not accurate passers.  Newton inaccuracies are mostly from the decisions he makes.  In time Newton can make better decisions when to pass and when not too.  Tebow is just not  and accurate passer and I think that is something that he will never get much better at.  I also think over time teams will figure out how to stop him.

In the mean time however Tebow is  a breath of fresh air  and he is taking advantage of every opportunity.