This is blowout city. No way it's even a competition. They're not used to being on a stage this big. They'll be lucky to keep it within 2 TD's.

App - 38
Miami - 21

(09-12-2016 05:13 AM)trapdrawApp Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 01:47 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  If App tears the goalposts down, will the students carry them directly into the Miami team bus? Asking for a friend.

No, we will trample their post game pizza's first. It's all about tradition up here on the mountain.

I hate you.

This conference needs this win....bout all I can muster for support. Still sore you let me down in the UT game I was going to wear App gear to the inlaws...and you ruined it you f'ing ruined it....

Seriously I hope you win as rising tide lifts all boats with these big wins, but kinda torn because I want thuga to tank and Richt to flourish at UM just to piss thuga fans off even more.

(09-12-2016 09:06 AM)JCGSU Wrote:  This conference needs this win....bout all I can muster for support. Still sore you let me down in the UT game I was going to wear App gear to the inlaws...and you ruined it you f'ing ruined it....

Seriously I hope you win as rising tide lifts all boats with these big wins, but kinda torn because I want thuga to tank and Richt to flourish at UM just to piss thuga fans off even more.

Let them thrive after this weekend. I love to see the Tar Holes, State and Duke toil so any success they have in the ACC is gravy. ECU already took care of State so if App can take care of Miami that would be a nice G5 sweep (excluding Charlotte of course) of the ACC schools they played. Of course that's more of an instate argument for even coverage than P5 v. G5.

I can see where Miami fans would be confident. P5 conference, 5 national championships and a who's who of college & pro football greats vs. Team in its 2nd full year in FBS. I wish some of our fans going to the Canes boards would use some restraint and play up the Little Ole' App State angle. Play to their confidence and stroke their egos. Makes the "How did that happen?" so much more fun.

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Recruiting dipped the last few years but the upper classmen were top 15 classes. The most recent have been mid twenties. Still good but not AL type talent by any means and certainly not better that UT's. New coaching typically sets a team back a bit hopefully they are still in the learning curve.

(09-12-2016 11:30 AM)JCGSU Wrote:  Recruiting dipped the last few years but the upper classmen were top 15 classes. The most recent have been mid twenties. Still good but not AL type talent by any means and certainly not better that UT's. New coaching typically sets a team back a bit hopefully they are still in the learning curve.

The way I put it on their board, trash talking aside; you can have all of the four and five star recruits you want, but if they don't know how to play together, it's all for naught.

This is what you are seeing with Arkansas State this season as the talent that they do have is evident, but they don't have the experience of playing in the system or with one another. Miami's player's may have the experience of playing together, but they don't have experience within the system.

According to them, not one player on App's roster was ever recruited by Miami. They then go on to say that it's impossible to correctly rate every South Florida recruit due to the sheer number, thus lower star players are starting for them. So the rule of recruits applies to them but not to App.

My only gripe with them is the lack of an attempt to even verify the information that is spewed, from the players not being recruited, to the fact that App, FAU and FAMU are all much more similar than App and Miami. After watching the Miami v. FAU game, I can tell you that their offense is going to have trouble due to the offensive line play and their message board is going to have a melt down.

Regardless of that, this is one game we can all be glad is being played in Boone and on ESPN for all to see. It's time to stem the tide of misinformation about App State, the Sun Belt and the G5 in general and place Miami back to where they have been for the past 16 years.

Their Top 25 ranking at this point is nothing more than Brad Kaaya and Mark Richt; a hold over of the inherent SEC bias in early season rankings if you will. With the way App's defense played UT (which is now being chalked up to UT being unprepared and looking ahead which doesn't account for the play of the offensive and defensive lines), Miami fans are going to be in for some early game disappointment and I can't wait.



Side note: They also seem to think that Mark Richt isn't susceptible to let downs like Al Golden was. I kindly point to the Southern v. Georgia game in 2015 that wasn't a result of the game being played in Week 1, and certainly isn't a case of being overlooked, as this was an in-state game.

(09-12-2016 11:24 AM)AppManDG Wrote:  I can see where Miami fans would be confident. P5 conference, 5 national championships and a who's who of college & pro football greats vs. Team in its 2nd full year in FBS. I wish some of our fans going to the Canes boards would use some restraint and play up the Little Ole' App State angle. Play to their confidence and stroke their egos. Makes the "How did that happen?" so much more fun.

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I don't play the "Little Ol' App State" angle because I like to attempt to correct the misinformed. Of course the conversations (that were never evolved honestly) devolve into a "why should we care". While the role of underdog is fun to play, I enjoy the "I told you so" versus the "I could've told you so" along with "great game, hope you enjoyed your trip to little ol' Boone". If you want to stop being small time, you stop acting small time. The campus is getting up for this game the way inter-conference rivalries work in the SEC during the week leading up to the game and that my friend, isn't small time.

With the way the defense is playing, in my opinion the best defense App has ever fielded, there is no need to back down from the arguments that are there to be made. Now that I have given them the information and corrected the errors i'll sit back and . Come Saturday, it'll be time to instead of like they all expect. During the game it'll be and they'll all be like .

Growing up in Lenoir, this is easily the most exciting thing to come through Caldwell, Wilkes, Watauga and Avery counties. So I apologize if the excitement may seem a bit brash.

normally, I would say stay away from going on an opposing board and correcting them, talking trash etc, and I still say if your going to talk to them on their board, be careful how you word it, because you are in a small way, representing the App fan base and how we are, as a group perceived by that school. But, I understand where your coming from, I'm tired of being seen as an FCS program, but that is unfortunately how the bigger schools, Tenn and Miami included still see us, its bothersome because they aren't even trying to learn the truth, that we are now a solid G5 program, that has the depth and talent to compete and sometimes beat the bigger programs if you don't take us seriously. Like you, I think we have progressed pass the "little old App State" angle where its a miracle if we are close at half time. The Tenn game proved we can put on the field a good, solid FBS program, that you have to do more than just show up to beat. So, god speed, have fun correcting the Cane fans on their board, just remember you representing all of us, and no matter what the Miami Trolls say trying to piss you off, take the high road and choose your words carefully.

(09-12-2016 07:41 AM)CoastalAlum2011 Wrote:  This is blowout city. No way it's even a competition. They're not used to being on a stage this big. They'll be lucky to keep it within 2 TD's.

App - 38
Miami - 21

I'm an App fan but your post is nuts. Miami knows a big stage and knows how to win, like national championships. I'm not very confident that App can hang in this one but hope they get the win.

Interesting thread going on up the board. I guess this game is considered a body bag game to our local ACC fans.

http://csnbbs.com/thread-790558.html

(09-12-2016 01:03 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Growing up in Lenoir, this is easily the most exciting thing to come through Caldwell, Wilkes, Watauga and Avery counties. So I apologize if the excitement may seem a bit brash.

'Cept all them NASCAR races they had in Wilkes. Half the damn state descended upon North Wilkesboro twice a year.

(09-12-2016 01:03 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 11:24 AM)AppManDG Wrote:  I can see where Miami fans would be confident. P5 conference, 5 national championships and a who's who of college & pro football greats vs. Team in its 2nd full year in FBS. I wish some of our fans going to the Canes boards would use some restraint and play up the Little Ole' App State angle. Play to their confidence and stroke their egos. Makes the "How did that happen?" so much more fun.

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I don't play the "Little Ol' App State" angle because I like to attempt to correct the misinformed. Of course the conversations (that were never evolved honestly) devolve into a "why should we care". While the role of underdog is fun to play, I enjoy the "I told you so" versus the "I could've told you so" along with "great game, hope you enjoyed your trip to little ol' Boone". If you want to stop being small time, you stop acting small time. The campus is getting up for this game the way inter-conference rivalries work in the SEC during the week leading up to the game and that my friend, isn't small time.

With the way the defense is playing, in my opinion the best defense App has ever fielded, there is no need to back down from the arguments that are there to be made. Now that I have given them the information and corrected the errors i'll sit back and . Come Saturday, it'll be time to instead of like they all expect. During the game it'll be and they'll all be like .

Growing up in Lenoir, this is easily the most exciting thing to come through Caldwell, Wilkes, Watauga and Avery counties. So I apologize if the excitement may seem a bit brash.

Take some friendly advice from someone who has been fighting the small time image thing longer than you've been alive. Most "fans" on P5 message boards are the ignorant, uninformed Wal-Mart variety who never set foot inside a classroom of the school they are so passionate for. All they know is what they are spoon fed by the local highly biased radio sports talk show personalities. Had you been in Knoxville last week you would have got a bellyful of what I'm talking about. Attempting to educate these folks is a waste of time. You'll never pull it off. Talking trash only plays into their hands and brings you down to their level. Wrestle with a pig in the mud long enough you'll realize the pig is enjoying it. It also reflects badly on Appalachian.

You have a distorted view of what acting Big Time is. Going on these boards and getting into whizzing match is acting Small Time. Keeping your mouth shut and letting your team do the talking is acting Big Time. You think this is the best defense because you never saw the squads Sparky Woods put on the field or Jim Brakefield's 1975 team that knocked off South Carolina, Wake Forest and East Carolina in the same year.

Just finished watching the Miami v. FAU game. Can't say I was too impressed with anything I saw from Miami. Looked like as long as you get pressure on the QB he starts to implode. As long as our guys can stay in coverage down field it should be a long day for Kaaya. Running didn't look like anything the Apps couldn't handle. Defense didn't impress me either, FAU completed a lot of passes to wide open receivers. Miami's defense seemed to play 5-10 yards off the receivers for most of the game. Granted I am not a football mastermind in any way but I definitely don't think the Apps will be outmatched.

(09-11-2016 08:54 PM)SLewis Wrote:  Elevation will likely have no impact on their players' conditioning.

But it could in their mind...

(09-12-2016 06:02 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 01:03 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Growing up in Lenoir, this is easily the most exciting thing to come through Caldwell, Wilkes, Watauga and Avery counties. So I apologize if the excitement may seem a bit brash.

'Cept all them NASCAR races they had in Wilkes. Half the damn state descended upon North Wilkesboro twice a year.

Since i've been alive I suppose should be clarified but that is a great point. Would be nice for something to be done there, it's a shame to drive by it on the way up and know that good times used to be had there.

(09-12-2016 06:41 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 01:03 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 11:24 AM)AppManDG Wrote:  I can see where Miami fans would be confident. P5 conference, 5 national championships and a who's who of college & pro football greats vs. Team in its 2nd full year in FBS. I wish some of our fans going to the Canes boards would use some restraint and play up the Little Ole' App State angle. Play to their confidence and stroke their egos. Makes the "How did that happen?" so much more fun.

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I don't play the "Little Ol' App State" angle because I like to attempt to correct the misinformed. Of course the conversations (that were never evolved honestly) devolve into a "why should we care". While the role of underdog is fun to play, I enjoy the "I told you so" versus the "I could've told you so" along with "great game, hope you enjoyed your trip to little ol' Boone". If you want to stop being small time, you stop acting small time. The campus is getting up for this game the way inter-conference rivalries work in the SEC during the week leading up to the game and that my friend, isn't small time.

With the way the defense is playing, in my opinion the best defense App has ever fielded, there is no need to back down from the arguments that are there to be made. Now that I have given them the information and corrected the errors i'll sit back and . Come Saturday, it'll be time to instead of like they all expect. During the game it'll be and they'll all be like .

Growing up in Lenoir, this is easily the most exciting thing to come through Caldwell, Wilkes, Watauga and Avery counties. So I apologize if the excitement may seem a bit brash.

Take some friendly advice from someone who has been fighting the small time image thing longer than you've been alive. Most "fans" on P5 message boards are the ignorant, uninformed Wal-Mart variety who never set foot inside a classroom of the school they are so passionate for. All they know is what they are spoon fed by the local highly biased radio sports talk show personalities. Had you been in Knoxville last week you would have got a bellyful of what I'm talking about. Attempting to educate these folks is a waste of time. You'll never pull it off. Talking trash only plays into their hands and brings you down to their level. Wrestle with a pig in the mud long enough you'll realize the pig is enjoying it. It also reflects badly on Appalachian.

You have a distorted view of what acting Big Time is. Going on these boards and getting into whizzing match is acting Small Time. Keeping your mouth shut and letting your team do the talking is acting Big Time. You think this is the best defense because you never saw the squads Sparky Woods put on the field or Jim Brakefield's 1975 team that knocked off South Carolina, Wake Forest and East Carolina in the same year.

1975....2016. The game has changed, the athletes have changed, it's really a tit for tat argument. Relativity is big so if App is able to beat Miami in a low scoring affair then I could see a comparison across the eons being made.

The Miami fans have finally come around to having a decent conversation today; or the ones capable of not finding a pissing match when presented with X's and O's have shown up because it's Monday.

(09-12-2016 07:30 PM)CheckYosef94 Wrote:  Just finished watching the Miami v. FAU game. Can't say I was too impressed with anything I saw from Miami. Looked like as long as you get pressure on the QB he starts to implode. As long as our guys can stay in coverage down field it should be a long day for Kaaya. Running didn't look like anything the Apps couldn't handle. Defense didn't impress me either, FAU completed a lot of passes to wide open receivers. Miami's defense seemed to play 5-10 yards off the receivers for most of the game. Granted I am not a football mastermind in any way but I definitely don't think the Apps will be outmatched.

When watching the UT-App, FAU-Miami game back to back, it's pretty obvious that UT has a more athletic and bigger defense. Many UM fans also seem to be worried about the play of the offensive line which plays right to App's strength. What this means for Saturday is anyone's guess, but at least on paper, it isn't near as much of a mismatch as I thought preseason.

I am excited that this is an early game, I can tune in without having to worry about TXST playing.

I cant believe some GS fans or fans of any Belt schools thinks this game is not big for the whole conference.....Sometimes I think we have to much Pawwlll caller disease infecting the GS fan base.