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 rebuilding process in the hills for several reasons. On the football side of things, expectations have hardly simmered. A lot of people aren’t sure what to expect with a lot of new faces in town attempting to correct what went wrong last year. The fact that it won’t happen overnight is what is trying to be whispered across town, but we all know college football fans are not that patient. Some leniency might be granted, but it will wear thin if things head too far south. There is one easy solution. Winning takes care of a lot. It will make things easier on some who are trying to fit in and find their footing. And to get to winning, you have to do the little things. Eventually it all adds up, and it starts on Friday night.

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I have no clue. I’ll hope for the best and go with the heart.

App - 20
UNCC - 17

App St Mountaineers - 42
Inappropriate Abbreviation - 24

App has a slow start, with a 7-10 1st quarter deficit.
2nd quarter adjustments begin happening, going into halftime with a 21-17 lead
3rd quarter DLo opens the flood gates and pours it on to a 35-17 lead
4th quarter Mountaineers take a 42-17 lead, and CLT scores a final in garbage time.

App State 34
UNCC 14

Good beards win, 32-21

Not sure what to expect but I will take a stab at it.

App 27
Charlotte 17

Obviously hoping for the best. Hoping theres a chance our talent in the skill positions can pull away in this one but we shall see. Not sure how our lines will hold up nor the fact that the guy on the other sideline is a more seasoned head coach than ours. Also extremely weary of the way things are looking in Vegas. App state taking almost 75% of the money and the spread continues to fall from app -10 to app -5. All that said I’ll be optimistic and call it app wins 30-21. Who really knows at the end of the day? Looking forward to it.

APP 30
uncc 13

After following App football for {gasp} almost 40 years now I will say I believe this is a time of the most new coaches the most new staff and the most new players ever IIRC. So I feel the most confident I have ever felt in predicting No Prediction, NP. I have no idea what is going to go on. But, I know what team I'm rooting for that will never change!!

Go App!

Thanks as always Big Charles.

Has Dowell named a starter yet?

31-17 Mountaineers

There will be precious little gold in the bottom of their pan on Friday night!

“…the good ole days weren’t always good, and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems.”
- Billy Joel
Trying to keep the faith.

Black and Gold 24
Fool’s Gold. 23

I just don’t know, I feel very uneasy about this specific game. The biggest reason being this: both us and Charlotte more or less have entirely new rosters this season, just like most of our other peers too. I’m not going to begin to try and decide who got better players from the portal. The question is can program leadership take 40+ new faces who have never played together and develop a winning team in 8 months? Albin HAS done this before. Multiple times actually. We just don’t know if Loggains can yet. This is not at all to say they made a better hire long term than we did, he’s just a far more experienced coach right now. For this reason I actually think we lose. And if we do we’re all going to need to take a deep breath, something this fanbase isn’t capable of.

Charlotte 21
App 17

Today I Give My All. 27
Fool's Gold. 20

Apps 21-20.

Our Portal 17

Their Portal 14

Appsolutely no clue, just win!

I feel like there is a huge group of guys in the park with two coaches taking turns picking their teams for a pickup game. Who knows how this new deal is gonna work out..

Never pick my school to lose

Apps- 24
Charlotte- 13

App State - 35
UNCC - 16

App- 27
UNC Concord- 14

Yosef 42
Fourandniners 17

App will do what App State does.