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RE: App v Marshall Saturday 3:30 CBS
(09-15-2020 03:36 PM)southcharlotteapp Wrote:  
(09-15-2020 03:19 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  
(09-15-2020 02:27 PM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  
(09-15-2020 01:44 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  
(09-15-2020 10:51 AM)Goronic Wrote:  Both teams obviously have been televised nationally. But have they ever been televised nationally on a broadcast network?

Marshall played Ohio State in 2004 a 24-21 loss, lost on a 55 yard FG from Mike Nugent with .02 on the clock. The game was on ABC.

(09-15-2020 11:38 AM)AppManDG Wrote:  I can't help but think about all those people over the last 30+ years who told me I was a fool for saying App should to be 1-A / FBS...

I knew in 1988 when Joan C Edwards stadium was proposed that we would be going IA soon, the stadium opened in 1991 and we were in the MAC in 1997.

(09-15-2020 01:22 PM)AppfanInCAAland Wrote:  I was at App when Marshall left (the '94 game on a rainy night in Boone is still one of my fondest football memories). I remember people mocking Marshall for taking the jump at the time, but there were also plenty of us wondering why we weren't going with them.

At the time we jumped I thought the next 2 programs to jump would be McNeese State and Appy State. At the time McNeese was on fire now they are a middle of the pack team in a bloated Southland conference. It took Appy and GA Southern 17 years after Marshall but they eventually took the leap.

I may be in the minority, but I'm glad we jumped up when we did rather than in the 90's. The Miracle on the Mountain, the three FCS titles, the Michigan game--none would have happened if App moved up when Marshall did. Even if we had beaten Michigan as an FBS team, it wouldn't have been as super historic or impactful. Heck, App might have overlooked a QB like Armanti Edward's as an FBS program, so we might have never had The Great One.

By the time App left, there was no unfinished business left. The move up has been an indisputable success.

Don't take what I'm about to say here wrong. I get what you're saying and I enjoyed each of those things you mentioned as much as anyone, but who knows what could have been had we remained 1-A. When word of 1-AA began gaining steam in the mid 70's App's administration was firmly in the we want to remain at the highest level camp. We were on par with ECU from a football standpoint, attendance was booming and donations were flowing into the program. When Chancellor Wey, the guy who was driving the train, retired in 1979 all that came to a screeching halt. We got Mr Not Motivated, Do Nothing John Tomas. He pulled back the reins and stopped all the momentum dead in it's tracks. The stadium which was supposed to have been 30,000 seats wound up 18K. Vice Chancellor Bob Sneed was all about keeping App a small mountain teacher training school and put in charge of fundraising. The Yosef Club was hit with unbelievable restrictions and people eventually lost interest. We were basically in the doldrums until Ken Peacock arrived on the scene then 2005, 06, 07 and MOST importantly Michigan happened.

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I honestly feel if this fumble did not happen in the semi's v Furman in 2005, we are not where we are today. This started the whole run in the 2000's.

No use wondering what things would have been different if we stuck with ECU in the '70s or Marshall in '90s or WCU in the '10s. Things are where they are because things happened the way they did and it's been a great ride so far.
09-15-2020 03:42 PM
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RE: App v Marshall Saturday 3:30 CBS - AppfanInCAAland - 09-15-2020 03:42 PM
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