The 17th Annual GreatAppSt Countdown starts right now!!!
Yes, It's that time again girls n' boys WOOOOT!!! xnodx

Fall weather, outdoor culinary delights, good spirits, ;-} and gatherings of friends young and old will soon be here.

I know that if you're here reading this (again)you're looking forward to football with as much enthusiasm and anticipation as I am.
17 Years and still going strong, I'd like to thank all the fans from many teams and different boards, who have joined in and expressed their enjoyment of the countdown over many years. Again, it has been and is still a great pleasure for me to do the countdown for Y'all.


Now on to the same ol' yearly intro!!!!

The G.A.S. Countdown is NOT just the often used, automatic backwards clock ticker (when I started this there were no others of any kind that I could find and trust me I looked). This countdown IS a work of passion for the enjoyment of others and myself. The G.A.S. countdown IS the often IMITATED but never duplicated ORIGINAL (like Carolina BBQ) build up to a new season of thrills, chills, and spills. Fun for ALL and all are welcomed along for the, Worlds Best Countdown! :D

THE RULES
1.) This is the G.A.S. Countdown.

2.) I countdown to Gameday, the beginning of what my heart is passionate for, the start of APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL SEASONS!!!


3.) Barring catastophic events,(if you only knew) the day will be posted this is my pledge. Please be patient it may be later in the evening before I have a chance to post. I literally have peoples lives in my hands while at work so posting while there just doesn't happen until i get home 8-) .



On with the show. :nod:

ENJOY!!

ERIC aka G.A.S.

Here we Go App!!!


And the 100th day Coaching staff credits


Scott Satterfield, who has spent 18 of the last 23 years at Appalachian State University as a student-athlete and coach, is in his second year at the helm of Appalachian State’s football program.


Satterfield has enjoyed success at every stop of his 21-year playing and coaching career, most notably in his 18 seasons at Appalachian State. In his 18 seasons as a player (1991-95), assistant coach (1998-2008, 2012) and now head coach, he has helped lead the Mountaineers to three national titles, eight Southern Conference championships and played a large role in virtually re-writing the program’s offensive record book.

Despite posting an un-Appalachian State-like 4-8 record in 2013, the program showed signs of promise in Satterfield’s first season at the helm. The short-handed Mountaineers struggled to a 1-6 start but rebounded to win three of their final five games, including a 38-14 rout over future Sun Belt Conference rival Georgia Southern. Appalachian’s only losses during the five-game stretch run were a hard-fought 35-28 defeat at the hands of SoCon co-champion Chattanooga and a 45-6 loss at Georgia, a game that the Mountaineers led early and trailed just 17-6 late in the third quarter.

Other bright spots in Satterfield’s first season as a head coach included quarterback Kameron Bryant, who set school records for single-season completion percentage (.712) and passing yards by a sophomore (2,713) despite not making his debut as a starter until the fifth game of the season and running back Marcus Cox, who set Appalachian State freshman records with 1,250 rushing yards and 21 total touchdowns as a true freshman.

Utilizing a 3-4 scheme installed by new defensive coordinator Nate Woody, Appalachian’s defense was also an improved unit in Satterfield’s first season at the helm, as the Mountaineers surrendered fewer points, rushing yards and total yards than they did in 2012.

After a three-year stint away from his alma mater, Satterfield returned to Appalachian State in January 2012 as the Mountaineers’ assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Despite inheriting a unit that managed just 390.2 yards per game in 2011 (Appalachian’s lowest production in eight seasons), lost three players that would go on to play in the NFL and returned only five starters, the Mountaineer offense flourished under Satterfield’s direction in 2012. Appalachian State ranked among the nation’s top 25 in total offense, passing efficiency, passing yardage and scoring and, for the first time in school history, produced a 3,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher and 1,000-yard receiver in the same season.

http://www.appstatesports.com/ViewArticl...=205355937

http://www.appstatesports.com/SportSelec...SID=104462

Georgia Southern Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein announced the hiring of Willie Fritz as the ninth head football coach in the program’s modern history on January 10, 2014. A proven winner with more than 30 years of coaching experience, Fritz led Sam Houston State to back-to-back Southland Conference titles, NCAA FCS championship appearances in 2011 and 2012, and a third-straight playoff berth this past year. In 21 years as a head coach, Fritz owns a 72.3 winning percentage with a record of 176-67-1 and more than a few trophies for his accomplishments at the national, regional and conference levels.

The Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year at the FCS level in 2012, Fritz was recognized nationally in 2011 as the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Coach of the Year. Honored as the AFCA Regional Coach of the Year in 2011 and 2012, Fritz was selected by the media and his peers in the Southland Conference as the league’s Coach of the Year in 2011 after his team went a perfect 7-0 in conference play.

In 2011 and 2012, Sam Houston State posted the two highest single-season win totals in program history with marks of 14-1 (2011) and 11-4 (2012) and Bearkat players were showered with accolades. More than 50 earned All-Southland Conference honors under Fritz in the last four years, not including additional “Player of the Year,” “Offensive Player of the Year,” “Defensive Player of the Year,” and “Newcomer of the Year” awards. All-America status from national coaching and media outlets were bestowed on 11 Sam Houston State players during his tenure.

Fritz comes to Georgia Southern after four years as the head coach of the Bearkats and his most recent of three total tours in Huntsville. His resume includes a wealth of experience across the board, notably as a coach with an innate ability to connect with his players, demand accountability and build winning programs.

After a highly successful tenure at Blinn College, averaging nearly 10 wins a season during his four years there, Fritz left to revitalize a Central Missouri program and guided it to 11 winning seasons. The NCAA Division II program’s ledger included two 10-win seasons with the 2001 Mule squad earning its first postseason trip in more than 30 years. In 2002, Central Missouri made its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Division II playoffs and was the Mid-America Athletic Association (MIAA) co-champion a year later. A 97-47 mark in 13 seasons ranks Fritz as the winningest coach in the program’s 118-year history. He was the only coach to ever win seven or more games in eight consecutive seasons and his victory total ranked him 15th among active Division II coaches at the time.

In addition to his impressive 67.4 winning percentage with the Mules, Fritz coached his student-athletes to achieve their potential both on the field and in the classroom. More than 150 Mules were recognized with All-MIAA honors with 41 first-team selections and 24 All-Americans. Under Fritz, Central Missouri recorded a graduation rate of 84 percent with 144 MIAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll recipients, 14 Academic All-Region and three Academic All-Americans.

Serving as a graduate assistant for the Bearkat program during the 1984 and 1985 seasons, Fritz earned a master’s degree in kinesiology while Sam Houston State posted a 16-6 record and won the 1985 Gulf Star Conference championship. He returned to Huntsville in 1991 after spending two years at Coffeyville College in Kansas under legendary Coach Dick Foster, earning a promotion to defensive coordinator after one year. He stayed another two years to work for Coach Skip Foster and the Red Ravens.

“I knew immediately when I interviewed him that I wanted to hire Willie,” said Coach Dick Foster, a charter member of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Football Hall of Fame. “He’s a talented person and I’ve followed his career closely, from Central Missouri and to Blinn where he coached two national championships, to what he has done at Sam Houston State. He has all the qualities needed for the challenge in front of him – he’s an excellent technician, an outstanding recruiter, very organized with his coaching and support staff and his student-athletes enjoy playing for him.”

Coach Ron Randleman brought Fritz back to the state of Texas and Sam Houston State as secondary and special teams coach in 1991, instilling an attitude of excellence on special teams that would last more than a decade. The Bearkats’ “block party” racked up 80 blocked punts, field goals and extra points beginning with Fritz in 1991 and lasting through 2004. In Fritz’s first year as a full-time assistant coach at Sam Houston State in 1991, the Bearkats won the Southland Conference. That league title and eight-win season launched SHSU to the program’s second-ever appearance in the NCAA playoffs.

“Willie was like a coach on the field for me as a four-year starter at Pittsburg State,” Coach Randleman said. “I just think the world of him and am proud that he was on my coaching staff not once, but twice. He has a tremendous work ethic, he played hard, and he coaches the same way. Willie has a great rapport with his players and they respect him.”

Fritz would leave Huntsville again, this time for an opportunity to be the head coach at Blinn College, where he would turn around a program that had only five wins in its previous three seasons. From 1993-96, Fritz and the Buccaneers would rack up 39 victories against only five losses with a tie and claim two national junior college championships. He was inducted into the NJCAA Football Hall of Fame for the environment of success he created at Blinn.

One of seven children, Fritz is the son of the late Harry Fritz, who coached the Central Missouri football team in 1952 before continuing his career as the Executive Director at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in Kansas City. The elder Fritz also served at several colleges and universities in administration as an athletics director.

Fritz played on two conference title teams and was a four-starter at defensive back for Coach Randleman at Pittsburg State and remained at his alma mater as a student assistant coach for his alma mater in 1982. Early coaching stops included a year at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School (Kansas) in 1983 and Willis High School (Texas) in 1986, with his return to Sam Houston State for graduate school in between those years.

Fritz and his wife Susan have three children, Wesley and Elaine, who are enrolled at Sam Houston State, and Brooke, a junior in high school in Huntsville.

http://gseagles.com/coaches.aspx?rc=242&path=football

coach Fritz's daughter is smoking hott btw.

(05-28-2015 10:03 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  coach Fritz's daughter is smoking hott btw.

You cannot make such claims without backing it up.

Claim that you will stomp any team in the world (professional included) and I won't ask for proof.

Hot chicks? Gotta be done.

(05-28-2015 10:19 AM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(05-28-2015 10:03 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  coach Fritz's daughter is smoking hott btw.

You cannot make such claims without backing it up.

Claim that you will stomp any team in the world (professional included) and I won't ask for proof.

Hot chicks? Gotta be done.

The Fritz family:

I'm going bestow the honor of 100 to the memory of head athletic trainer, David Gish. 1962-2014



David joined Texas State University in January 1990, after having worked at San Marcos High School where he was the Rattlers’ Athletic Trainer for four years. He also worked as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette for two years. He began his athletic training career under the tutelage of Dennis Hart at North Mesquite High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of North Texas in 1984 and completed a master’s degree from the Texas State University in 1990. He was proud to be an Eagle Scout and continued to be active in Boy Scouts.

In his role as head athletic trainer for the Athletic Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, David lead a Texas State University athletic training staff that included four full-time assistant and nine graduate assistant athletic trainers. He was employed at Texas State for 24 years, having been named head athletic trainer in 1998, after serving as an assistant athletic trainer for eight years.

A certified member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and a licensed trainer in the State of Texas, he received the Service Award from the NATA in 2010 for his distinguished and sustained service to the profession. He served as vice president on the Executive Board of the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association (SWATA) in 2012-2013. He was currently serving a two-year term as president.

In 2000 he was involved in the development of the Texas State Athletic Trainers’ Association (TSATA) and was elected to be the Region Eight representative for that group, helping to develop and write a high school athletic trainers’ sports medicine course for the TSATA.

He served as the NCAA Division 1 FCS representative on the College/University Athletic Training Committee for District 6 of NATA. He is also a past-president of the Alamo Area Athletic Trainers’ Association. During his employment at Texas State, he served as a volunteer at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and was a member of the medical staff at the 1995 U.S. Sports Festival in Denver.

He was appointed to the medical staff for the USA Track and Field Team in the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy and at the 2007 NACAC Championships in the Dominican Republic.

(05-28-2015 11:04 AM)CatMom Wrote:  I'm going bestow the honor of 100 to the memory of head athletic trainer, David Gish. 1962-2014



David joined Texas State University in January 1990, after having worked at San Marcos High School where he was the Rattlers’ Athletic Trainer for four years. He also worked as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette for two years. He began his athletic training career under the tutelage of Dennis Hart at North Mesquite High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of North Texas in 1984 and completed a master’s degree from the Texas State University in 1990. He was proud to be an Eagle Scout and continued to be active in Boy Scouts.

In his role as head athletic trainer for the Athletic Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, David lead a Texas State University athletic training staff that included four full-time assistant and nine graduate assistant athletic trainers. He was employed at Texas State for 24 years, having been named head athletic trainer in 1998, after serving as an assistant athletic trainer for eight years.

A certified member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and a licensed trainer in the State of Texas, he received the Service Award from the NATA in 2010 for his distinguished and sustained service to the profession. He served as vice president on the Executive Board of the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association (SWATA) in 2012-2013. He was currently serving a two-year term as president.

In 2000 he was involved in the development of the Texas State Athletic Trainers’ Association (TSATA) and was elected to be the Region Eight representative for that group, helping to develop and write a high school athletic trainers’ sports medicine course for the TSATA.

He served as the NCAA Division 1 FCS representative on the College/University Athletic Training Committee for District 6 of NATA. He is also a past-president of the Alamo Area Athletic Trainers’ Association. During his employment at Texas State, he served as a volunteer at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and was a member of the medical staff at the 1995 U.S. Sports Festival in Denver.

He was appointed to the medical staff for the USA Track and Field Team in the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy and at the 2007 NACAC Championships in the Dominican Republic.

What happened to him?

(05-28-2015 02:03 PM)gsu95 Wrote:  What happened to him?

He passed away from cancer on September 22, 2014. The team wore his name on the back of their helmets the rest of the season and dedicated their season (and making their first bowl game) to him.

http://www.txstatebobcats.com/news/2014/...41457.aspx

(05-28-2015 10:19 AM)GATA Wrote:  

(05-28-2015 10:19 AM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(05-28-2015 10:03 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  coach Fritz's daughter is smoking hott btw.

You cannot make such claims without backing it up.

Claim that you will stomp any team in the world (professional included) and I won't ask for proof.

Hot chicks? Gotta be done.

The Fritz family:

There is a better picture, especially of one with Gus.

i figured if anybody was smart, they could find plenty of pictures. I'm not posting those up though.

See her at the bars all the time in Charleston. She's pretty, but wouldn't go so far to say smoking hot.

Check this out. It was put out yesterday. TXST makes the cut


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With our back up QB from 2011 & 2012