Nobody feels great about what they had to witness last weekend. Nothing good came of it and nobody will ever remember why it happened. But this has to be the turning point. It cannot get any worse than this. The margin of error in football is so finite. Sometimes it can come down to a play or two. L...

This week, it's hard not to think back from a few years ago about moments that have made memories on this mountain. After the end of the 2021 season and the beginning of the 2022 season, App State had lost three games in a row to decent teams. The loss to Louisiana in the Sun Belt Championship, the ...

Conference scheduling has shifted this rivalry game around since both teams entered the conference in 2014. We are back to a Thursday night game for the first time since 2019 after being scheduled on Thanksgiving Saturday, or the last game of the season, for the previous five games in this series. E...

The hard part about learning how to ride a bike is realizing there will be moments where it feels good, and there will be moments where you lose your balance and fall off. The hope is that last week was just a minor setback, but it does not mean that you won’t have some bruises or a scrape that will...

Winning a couple games in a row really makes you feel good, especially after a winning a road conference game. The Mountaineers now have the opportunity to match last years win total after just the seventh game in front of a homecoming crowd. The weather trends look immaculate. The leaves have held ...

After many opportunities of getting the chance to beat a “power” team at home, not many of us would have imagined that Oregon State would be that team. We hardly dreamed of anyone west of the Mississippi even daring to visit Boone. That first win at home should have been Wake Forest. That would have...

When seasons start like this one has, with some incredible hope, and then a couple of recent hiccups, it feels like the sky is falling. When the team plays somewhat of the same game, and the results have you sitting even, it comes down to a couple plays here and there. The timing is crucial. This ha...

This week was supposed to have an incredible build up and anticipation for two of the biggest little teams, on opposite ends of the country to face off on the gridiron for the first time in 31 years. The Mountaineers lost before their bye week, and looked somewhat pitiful while doing so. And then th...

It feels like we got away with one last week. Was Lindenwood ever really challenging the Mountaineers last weekend? No they were not. We hypothesized exactly about that. The game was less the opponent and more within yourself to be a little bit better, make a few less mistakes and have a better resu...

It’s fair to say that a lot of happy Mountaineers walked out of Bank of America Stadium on Friday feeling pretty good about themselves. If you asked a lot fans before they walked in, if they would take a 34-11 victory, every last one of them would have nodded quickly. Charlotte did not look the part...

Finally, another season is upon us. Sometimes those offseasons are longer than others. Unfortunately, last season ended long before we would have liked, but it still felt appropriate. Last fall was a bad one in the mountains for more reasons than just football, and we’ll still feel the effects of a ...

Here we are again. We have come to the point in the season when both sides have something to play for, and neither would like nothing more than to kill any hopes the other side has. It’s Georgia Southern week and nothing will make your skin crawl on either side quite like thinking about the other te...

Now, with just two games remaining in the regular season, the Mountaineers are firmly backed up against the wall. If they want to play another game beyond this weekend and next, they have to win both games. And what two better opponents to play, then against two teams who have provided some surprisi...

Heading to the final month of the regular season, App State is on the last leg of three games in a thirteen day stretch. The trip to the outskirts of the South Carolina coastline serves as a quick reminder of how brutal Sun Belt scheduling can be. The Mountaineers have gotten up off the mat after a ...

Quickly, we are back at The Rock for another home game, and for the second week in a row the stakes are just as big as they were last week. To keep any slim hopes in the conference title hunt, the Mountaineers are faced with one goal. Win the week. They will face an Old Dominion team that could not ...

This has been a long time coming. Maybe it’s only been 37 days since the Mountaineers have played at home, but it’s also been 56 days since they have played at home on a Saturday. It feels like an eternity, because it has been. This weekend is the last Saturday of October. The Mountaineers have not ...

Last week, the Mountaineers returned to football. It was a step in the road to recovery in the sense of returning to a normal routine. The result was obviously not what we were looking for, and the mistakes that occurred on the field can be expected from a group of young men who have gone through a ...

This is going to be hard. This week has been unlike any other week I have experienced in the High Country. Football is certainly on the back burner. The month of October in Boone is supposed to be full of visitors. Whether they crowd Kidd Brewer or the Blue Ridge Parkway, this is supposed to be our ...

We did that thing again, and this time we did not respond. The record is skipping and we are seeing the same thing each week. When does it stop? Going through the motions for the last three weeks, it was hard to tell which direction we are going. Was Clemson good? Is Clemson great? What a great come...

We almost did that thing again. But this time it was different. After a whirlwind first quarter that resembled the previous week, the Mountaineers settled into their groove. It will be a memorable win in a series that divides households and workplaces. Any road win is a big one, but a road win in st...