pipedreams

  • Dowell speaks to the board that hired him, FEMA gave ASU some money and other December BOT notes

    Every quarter, the App State Board of Trustees meets, first in committee meetings where everything is actually decided, then in a big board meeting where formalities play out. This happened on Dec. 5-6 at the App State Hickory campus, I think for the first time. Below are my notes from these meetings. Some are more…

    TK

  • an argument for storming the field after every home win

    Three times this season, App State Football has won a home game, and in two of those games, fans and/or students, starting at Miller Hill, rush the field. Despite the overdramatic “do not rush the field” warning at the two-minute timeout, it keeps on happening. Oregon State and Marshall, the only FBS home wins this…

    TK

  • the earth is purple and there is no god – jmu postmorten

    What happened was always possible, but you’d figure at worst, it would be like 41-14. A game where there were chances, but it just didn’t happen. That’s something to build on. It was way worse than any nightmare. You go from celebrating fighting back versus ODU and Georgia Southern to being laid waste with no…

    TK

  • loser – the enemy postmortem

    There will be no cohesion here. This will be messy and hard to read. It’s after 1 a.m., I’m still cold and I just saw my team lose at home to our mortal enemy for only the third time in the last 25 years. Here goes nothing. And I’m not spell or syntax checking this.…

    TK

  • fubar – coastal postmortem

    If there was any doubt before, there shouldn’t be now. Coastal Carolina is a rivalry and App State needs to admit it. On Saturday, under the colorful leaves, one team got hyped while another didn’t. One team, which created an evil boogeyman to combat, overcame a two-touchdown hole, while another, which maybe was treating this…

    TK

  • the app state qb debate should be over – georgia state postmortem

    41-20 makes this game seem closer than it was. For the first quarter, it was close and cagey. Georgia State drove, then had a field goal blocked. There was that weird muffed punt that wasn’t due to “active blocking.” Then it was an avalanche. 17-0 at halftime and 31-0 in the third quarter sealed the…

    TK

  • winning when you’re staring down losing: oregon state postmortem

    It was going to go wrong, wasn’t it? But it didn’t. Then it went really wrong. But it was unwronged and oh awesome we won, this rules. That was the Oregon State game. Give all FBS Oregon State’s first five games and like 60% of them are starting 0-5. The combined record of those five…

    TK

  • miller hill — god’s last gift to appalachian state

    Right now, in 2025, the only way to get from the West Side to the East Side of Kidd Brewer Stadium is around the south side. There sits a man-made hill, cultivated from the mountain earth. Probably no more than 200 feet long and at a decent angle of probably 50 feet from the top…

    TK

  • a different class of a terrible fate – boise postmortem

    There was an inkling this could happen. We all hoped App State could be different; they could steal a night march, turn the tables on Boise State and be the ones, live up to the reputation forged by teams long ago and even more recent. But no, it turned into another routine Boise State home…

    TK

  • i see a red zone and want to paint it black – somiss postmortem

    If anything, Saturday night proved that App State isn’t back. But it might be closer than we think. You see the promise on offense, you see the good defense. But they need to complement each other. When the offense can’t score in the red zone early, it puts the defense in bad spots. This game…

    TK