Jonesing In Year Four – UTA Sweep Closes The Door On App’s Post-Season Hopes
“We’re looking forward to where this team could be in May or June.” February 25, 2016 While the App State baseball team has improved, the in-game managing is still the same. And it’s awful....
View ArticleRocky Top Thursday And The Long Wait Beforehand
It’s Sunday, May 22nd and there won’t be any live action App State sports news for the summer. Track and Field is done minus the half dozen who qualified for regionals next weekend and...
View ArticleA Final Song Of Fog And Rain – Baseball Wraps Up 2016 With A Sweep
It seemed like the final series of the regular season, a non-conference home slate against Longwood, didn’t mean much. But after what happened the previous weekend with UT-Arlington getting the road...
View Article100 Ways To Survive The Summer Before App State Football
It’s 100 days til App State football season. Well, if you’re counting the day before kickoff as one day left, then it is. Since kickoff is at 7:30 PM, then it should count IMO....
View ArticleHaving A Football Whiteout At Home Is The Worst Idea Since Hot Hot Hot
Late in the afternoon, App State announced the “color days” for the upcoming football season. October 1st versus Georgia State is Black, because it’s Black Saturday. October 22nd is Pink for the Pink...
View ArticleWhiteghazi Part Two – The Empire Strikes Back
“Never turn a one day story into a two day story.” – Don Canham, Michigan AD. When App State announced the home whiteout for the first home game on September 1st versus Old Dominion,...
View ArticleFour Years Of Jones – The End
Tuesday afternoon saw the four-year tenure of Billy Jones end in a very abrupt fashion. Appalachian State University athletics has discontinued the employment of baseball head coach Billy Jones,...
View ArticleA High Noon Hurricane, Admin Turnover, Final Sporting Acts, Campeonatos and...
Football got some big news last Friday. The Saturday, September 17 home game versus Miami will be a noon kickoff on ESPN or ESPN2. Not ESPN3.com, the mothership itself. Right after Lee Corso puts...
View ArticleA 2016-ized App State Student-Athlete Guide To Avoid Screw Ups
Around this time, 17- to 23-year-olds are converging on Boone to begin their summer workouts. They represent most of App State’s 20 varsity sports and have the goals of leading their team and...
View ArticleGibbs-less, App’s New Baseball Rival Won The Whole Thing And Other...
It is July, which means another collegiate year has passed. 2015-16 is now a series of memories which can be written about. 2016-17 is here and the wait til the fall action continues. The...
View ArticleMid-July Update – Baseball gets a Kermit, Tennis gets a Blake, Field Hockey...
We’re roughly halfway through the college sports summer and there’s news, so let’s do this! Baseball has a coach after a 44-day search. Kermit Smith is the new skipper, coming to App State from...
View ArticleThe Unconfirmed Battles for Arrrrrr State, New Swag Analysis and More – First...
There will be a separate post about App State Media Day and what Satterfield and others said later on. This will cover just about everything else in the last couple weeks. The Big 12...
View ArticleCamp Notes, App State Sells Out, Euro Trip and More
Football is four practices into fall camp. Things got chippy on Tuesday, but that’s normal. Defense is getting the better of things, but again, that’s normal as the offense is having to get more...
View ArticleDown a Center, Hoops In Slovenia and Other Pre-Season Notes
Peace in Boone is almost over. Move-in weekend is coming fast, so be prepared for traffic, selfie-takers, emotional parents and more traffic. For the freshmen coming in, let your mom treat you like a...
View ArticleThe App State Fall Olympic Sports Preview
This fall, seven App State teams take to the field for their primary season of competition. Last season, four of the teams finished second in the Sun Belt and another finished in the top...
View ArticleThe 2016 Appalachian State Football Primer
This offseason in particular has left me jonesing for the return of App State football. Part of it being a welcome distraction from life, which at times sucks. Part of it is because the...
View ArticleA (Black and) Gold Start To Fall Sports
We’re in game week. It’s like Sunday, but it’s actually Friday because the opening game is on Thursday. That’s not confusing. The important thing is that it’s game week. You can tell it’s game...
View ArticleTennessee Week Notes – The Vol Hype Machine and That Game Nine Years Ago
Thursday marks the opening game of the college football season. It’s the first Thursday night opener for the Apps since Wake Forest in 2000, a 20-16 victory. There’s a nervous energy because you don’t...
View ArticleThem Low-Down, Dirty Snitches of Rocky Top
Before I start, I have a little side story from last season. After the Clemson piece last year sparked visceral tribalism, one of the ways Tiger fans decided to get back at me was...
View ArticlePre-Labor Day Olympic Sports – Almost Fully Loaded
Posting this from downtown Knoxville in my hotel room. Less than a mile from Neyland and I’m excited. Olympic sports this past week….didn’t have the greatest week, but there’s still a lot to be...
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