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Tradition. Based on the consolidated rankings of three preseason polls, App State is maybeshouldpossibly be the second best team in FCS next season. Lindy’s has the DP Attack No. 1, Sporting News No. 3 and Athlon No. 5. The consolidated No. 1? The defending champs, of course. The Stinky new SoCon hotness? Tied for third. Two other SoCon schools in top 20.  26 comments - (Comments are closed) Yesterday USA Today had a huge story on … /yawn … the importance of student fees in supporting athletics at Rutgers. This a few days after a similar story which reported pretty much the same details. Altogether in 2010, about $2 billion in subsidies went to athletics programs at the 218 public schools that have been in the NCAA’s top-level Division I over the past five years. Those subsidies grew by an inflation-adjusted 3% in 2010. They have grown . . . → Read More: Subsidies, applications back in the news 39 comments - (Comments are closed)
Not foozball. Bball! Bonus! Everything’s bigger in Charlotte! After a 10-year hiatus in the rivalry, Appalachian State University men’s basketball will host East Carolina this season in Charlotte’s Time Warner Cable Arena, head coach Jason Capel announced on Monday. The squads will meet on November 22 in the home of the NBA’s Bobcats. The game is the first in a two-season home-and-home series, with the Mountaineers returning to Greenville, N.C. in November 2012. How’d this come about? . . . → Read More: Three years later, Battle of the Beards renewed 87 comments - (Comments are closed) Change – “We never had this many people out here in June before,” said senior wideout Joel Bradford.” Also, “Huesman has announced that five players are, for various reasons, either going to miss the 2011 season or are no longer on the team.” There’s a Coach Moore cameo in the story. 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Guilty – “The father of Carolina Panthers receiver Armanti Edwards has been convicted of murder in South Carolina. Edwards had been convicted in 2006, but the conviction was overturned because jurors were not given the option of finding Edwards guilty of involuntary manslaughter.” Background. 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
He makes music on the field, now he’s doing it off it. Your next American Idol, DP! Bonus – Victor(y) Elder again playing backup. Original song we just finished writing. Give us your honest opinion… on the words and music… not the voices. Hope you enjoy it! We for sure had fun making it. 24 comments - (Comments are closed) Yes, it’s been a long offseason. And still there’s … /checks countdown clock … 73 days to go till kickoff. So how about a quick refresher on what we know – who’s coming back. Appalachian State will return five starters on offense and seven on defense in 2011, from an FCS quarterfinalist team that finished 10-3. Of players not listed as No. 1 on the depth chart, safety Dominique McDuffie has 17 career starts as a safety . . . → Read More: Slowly moving into football mode 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Embarrassment – “The alleged violations include failure to monitor the program, academic fraud involving a tutor and failure to follow up in 2009 and 2010 on tips related to improper benefits provided to a football player.” Look on the bright side – it’s only going to get worse. 51 comments - (Comments are closed) Big news from the man who brought App State’s career leading scorer to Boone. Pretty impressive. Oddly enough, the man himself is keeping pretty quiet on it. The NBA Draft is Thursday. Dare we dream? 14 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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