Pitchin with Pritch: SPVA means subdistricts not far off
I am not sure if I have moved on to 2021 yet or what, but my time mechanism is not working properly.
I can remember last March when COVID-19 hit but since then almost every day is Monday and I have to check the calendar to make sure I know what month it is.
Reality sets in when all of the sudden the SPVA basketball tournament is over.
I now can remember that when I was coaching, I knew that there wasn’t much time left in the regular season. Pretty quick, we would be playing in subdistricts and hoping to find a way to make it to Lincoln for the state tournament.
The season would seem to speed up after the SPVA tournament. There is still a lot of regular season to go and you always have a chance to improve things in that time.
But it still seemed like time flew by faster in the last week of January and then into February.
I don’t know what it would be like coaching this season because of the Covid interruptions—not knowing if you were going to have a game postponed at the last minute and all the things coaches had to put up with in the last two school years.
This year I missed the entire SPVA tournament. That maybe was only the second or third time that has happened in the last 40 years or so. I might miss a game or two, but usually I was there for the whole thing.
The tournament was always a pretty competitive situation. If you won it, that was a pretty good accomplishment for the team.
I liked it when the tournament was held at one of the SPVA schools, but I also liked it when we moved the whole thing to NPCC.
Our crowds were better, the people at NPCC treated us well and we were playing on a neutral floor.
I wish it was still that way but I understand when you start losing schools and the ones that join are not as close as the old schools were, that you have to make some concessions.
I can remember when we had 10 schools in the conference. Also, we had a regular season champion and, of course, the tournament champion. At one time, I was told there were even two divisions. So like a lot of things, there have been ups and downs and it has survived for many years.
Super Bowl Quarterbacks
The Super Bowl will have two great quarterbacks running the teams.
I was not sure that Tom Brady would be one of them but he will be there playing in his 10th Super Bowl.
I thought maybe Green Bay might win the game against Tampa Bay and put Aaron Rodgers in the Super Bowl. There still would have been two great ones running the teams but that didn’t happen.
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs tried hard to let the Buffalo Bills back in, not covering an onside kick. Then, after an almost bench-clearing brawl with about 3:00 left in the game, the Bills kick a 51-yard field goal.
The game got real chippy at the end and that took a lot away from how well the game was played up until then.
The players are adults, but if a high school kid acted like some of the players did on both teams, there would be discipline applied, I am pretty sure.
Two weeks and the big Super Bowl Game will see if the old quarterback can out dual the up-and-coming quarterback. It should be a good game.