My List of Grievances,Demands, and Everything Else (Part 1)

Well, here we go...

Part 1: Sports
-I wish we had a MAJOR league pro baseball team in North Carolina. Preferably in Raleigh, but I know that won't happen. I still own the Playstation 2 copy of All Star Baseball 2005, and their most underrated mode is the Expansion franchise mode, in which you could choose your city and start a franchise from scratch.

-I wish athletic directors would stop firing college basketball coaches after only three seasons..or even less than three seasons (Gillespie, Billy at Kentucky.) Dino Gaudio proved that he was a career assistant at Wake Forest, but I think he should have been given one more season. College coaches in all sports should be able to have at least four recruiting classes to build their systems and programs. It's getting sickening. College athletic programs are being run as pro franchises nowadays. We wouldn't have Coach K around at Duke if he began his career in this current environment.

-I wish the NHL would fold the Atlanta Thrashers and the Phoenix Coyotes. Hockey could cut two franchises, but no more. I probably would have expanded the league back in 1997, but I would add two more franchises instead of four. I'm open to debate on this.

-The NBA should go back to the pre-1993 lottery system (google this) and stop rewarding the practice of "tanking" in order to get the top overall draft choice (it's John Wall this year, folks). Wasn't the lottery made to stop tanking anyway???

-It would also make sense (to me, at least) for the NBA to adopt either a hard cap or a system similar to the NFL's uncapped year, where the top teams are actually limited in free agency.

-I wish Methodist University would go D-II and actually attempt to field consistently successful men's basketball and football programs. They may never be competitive again in their current setup; with tuition going up, the chances of them stealing D-II caliber athletes or decent black athletes in general will decrease further and further. Look at basketball. They fielded a 3-23 team this past season, but they would have been .500 or better had Marcus Connor, Pee-Wee Thomas or Leland Jones could have afforded to go there this year.