spacemonkey wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 21, 2026 11:12 pm

Just wait till the evangelic churches find out they could offer gambling at church and make a little extra. It won't be long.

BINGO!

Debating if Shawn or Jerry would be successful in this NIL era is not going to be good for this board's mental state. It would be tough to compare 100% for sure. Would Jerry Moore have used the portal as much as Shawn did if he had it? Jerry's staff did a better job of finding and landing HS talent...

Whatever happened to "Anyone anywhere anytime?"

Indiana is relevant.

When the NCAA did not punish UNC-Ch for academic fraud a few years ago they lost most, if not all, of their credibility.

Stonewall wrote: ↑

Tue May 19, 2026 12:46 pm

Interesting conversation this morning, Duke talking to Big Ten schools individually. Second hand info for what it’s worth.

https://wtop.com/ncaa-basketball/2026/0 ... -pushback/

Not secondhand news... news actually.

I do not believe Appalachian needs an engineering school. I believe our sustainable development program thrives because our sustainable development majors are not burdened by thinking like an engineer.

We will start to have a real problem when players are paid not to play.

More teams in, more people having a good time. The argument that it is too hard on athletes to play that many games is invalid. If they really cared, they would cut the number of games played in the regular season. The playoffs only affect those teams that run far into the playoffs. I just do not un...

I don’t think Luke Combs’ comments are killing our program, per se, but he has quite the platform, and the more people share that defeatist viewpoint the more it comes true, because why would you donate if you feel that way. I find it to be a lazy, obtuse, fair weather fan take, probably stemming f...

Never underestimate the power of jealousy, everyone at the G6 level wishes they were JMU the last few years and everyone at the P4 level wishes they were Indiana.

NIL and The Transfer Portal has hurt the perennial powers more than it has hurt the little guys.

I don’t think Luke Combs’ comments are killing our program, per se, but he has quite the platform, and the more people share that defeatist viewpoint the more it comes true, because why would you donate if you feel that way. I find it to be a lazy, obtuse, fair weather fan take, probably stemming f...

The biggest aspect of it all is the fact that Appalachian is in the smallest market of all the Sunbelt Conference Schools. We cannot do anything about our market share. In reality the metric that gets looked at is the size of the city in which you are located. UNCC is the only school in North Carol...

The biggest aspect of it all is the fact that Appalachian is in the smallest market of all the Sunbelt Conference Schools. We cannot do anything about our market share. In reality the metric that gets looked at is the size of the city in which you are located. UNCC is the only school in North Caroli...

A playoff without automatic qualifiers is an invitation tournament.

Money does not equate wins. Take the amount of money that UNC-Ch is spending compared to Appalachian. We went 5 and 8 and they went 4 and 8. We had more wins that cost less to get than theirs. Granted, we are in different conferences, but I believe were we in the ACC we would do better than just fo...

Kind of weird they seem to only do the individual schools ceremonies now instead of one big commencement. Seems with some of them being on Thursday and Friday during the day makes it harder for some to attend. My wife wants me to walk in December but it looks like it'll probably be at like 3pm on a...

They also play the Yikas at the end of the ceremony. How cool is that?

Apparently Luke showed up at the School of Music graduation ceremony and got an honorary degree. I still say they should have given him one during his concert in KBS. During actual graduation makes it feel more valid. The coolest thing is that it is a bachelor's degree and not a doctorate. How many...

With modern technology you could send out a vote before the game with songs from different genres and different times 80,90,00, today. Let the students choose 1/3rd and the season ticket holders choose 1/3 and the football team choose 1/3 of the songs used. You do understand this is a group that ca...