App State still in the running for 6-7 guard Christian Hairston of Greensboro Day School, according to the News & Record of Greensboro.

http://www.news-record.com/blogs/982103 ... ering-five

Contrary to what many on here believe, the decision to move to FBS has left a severely divided university and its community. There's a reason Charlie Cobb and Ken Peacock have virtually vanished from sight since the football season ended. As others have mentioned, this is merely an effort to avoid a...

Exciting news about ASU alums Brad and Carole Wilson:

http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/03/22/alumni-pledge/

More complete story from the Winston-Salem Journal:

http://www.journalnow.com/news/state_re ... 0f31a.html

eggers76 wrote:I read where Scott Lampe and Roger Aiken were both ASU grads.

Still too many UNC-CH folks.

Lampe is a devoted App State alum. I doubt he misses many home football games. He will be an asset on the board.

If the disagreement comes when discussing the western schools, why not just go ahead and announce invites for App and GaSo? If/when NMSU gets voted in, have another presser. Every day the announcement is delayed is a squandered recruiting advantage. The delay is really fairly simple. Once App and G...

If we stay at this level I'd be more concerned with a reduction in football scholarships than dropping sports. Wrestling and Men's soccer are dying sports at the Div 1 college level. We all know who is to blame for that. The solution - exclude football from the calculation. Title IX is a fair and r...

If we stay at this level I'd be more concerned with a reduction in football scholarships than dropping sports. Wrestling and Men's soccer are dying sports at the Div 1 college level. We all know who is to blame for that. The solution - exclude football from the calculation. Title IX is a fair and r...

I go back in the 60s and 70s. I'm just saying that every school gets calls. If you are an anti UNC fan then UNC gets all calls. If you are an anti Kentucky fan then Kentucky gets all the calls. I can name many calls for UNC and many against UNC. Last year in the Duke game at UNC Zeller got pushed i...

This is stupid. How do you leave a league and take the name with you. What you have really done is kick the other schools out of the league. How do you let that happen? As with everything else in college sports, it's about money. The Catholic 7 will purchase the Big East name from the remaining foo...

N.C. A&T will not be the pushover we've come to expect in the past 6-8 years. Coach Rod Broadway's team is coming out of APR purgatory and will be one of the top teams in the MEAC. If they get their quarterback situation ironed out, the Aggies will bear little resemblance to the team we whipped in B...

With all due respect to asumike83, I think a move to the CAA would be a terrible idea. Irrespective of the FBS/FCS discussion, we need to be in a conference that fits us and that we fit . We are a southern university that draws a vast majority of its students from North Carolina. We occasionally pul...

78' just showed me a story that ran in the News and Record today. My source was correct in saying news was coming out concerning the Maryland case but it's what I thought all along. It shows that the ACC is not going down without a fight. I didn't think Swofford would back down as he knows what's a...

I'm with Doug -- er Kgfish -- on this one. This any-port-in-a-storm mentality is going to get us in trouble. The Sun Belt offers less revenue than any conference in FBS and we would be in the outer fringe of the league footprint. That's a recipe for a lot of red ink. If we are so hell bent on joinin...

Interesting piece on DB Brandon Pinckney in GoUpState.com:

http://www.goupstate.com/article/201302 ... /130209645

From a blog post by the Asheville Citizen-Times, K Mason Moore (6-3, 175) of Asheville High School has accepted a preferred walk-on invitation to Appalachian State.

http://blogs2.citizen-times.com/hshuddle/

Highlights:

Walk-on TJ Watkins talks about joining Appalachian State:

http://www.thedigitalcourier.com/x17331 ... -App-State

Just for fun, I put together a list of the players I consider our six top signees. I base it on what I see in video, not what some recruiting service says. Bear in mind, I'm NEVER right about these things, and, given the overall strength of this class, picking a top six is darn-near impossible. But ...

Updated list: SIGNED LETTER OF INTENT TO APPALACHIAN STATE RB/WR Marcus Cox (5-10, 185) of Dacula High School in Dacula, Ga. (last updated Oct. 25, 2012); Rivals stars: :idea: :idea: LB/DB Rashaad "Boomer" Townes (6-2, 200) of Howard High School in Macon, Ga. (posted Dec. 6, 2012); Rivals stars: :id...

In case you missed the news from Rivals, one-time South Alabama commit RB Terrence Upshaw (5-10. 186) of Northview High School in Duluth, Ga., flipped his commitment from Samford to Appalachian State. Junior season highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirfvxlQY_I Senior season highlights: http...

Big news breaking on the Rivals board. Might want to give it a look.