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  • 2026 anonymous sun belt football fan opinions poll, part one – how much to do people hate your team?

    Sun Belt Conference teams began their season tonight. Or, well, Georgia State did. Everyone else is on Saturday. I think. Don’t fact check me. And judging by the below comments, neither did they. Might as well give how everyone thinks of all 14 teams as part of the Anonymous Sun Belt Football Fan Opinions Poll…

    TK

  • 2026 anonymous sun belt football fan opinions poll, part one – who will win? overall thoughts? NIL thoughts? sun belt in five years?

    Earlier in August I did the now annual Google Survey poll on your thoughts for the 2026 Sun Belt season. Responses were …. unenthusiastic compared to recent years. As you can see below, a combo of NIL and free transfer fatigue negatively impacted college football fandom. The total number of responses were half of two…

    TK

  • just fix the damn subaru: appalachian state football 2026 preview

    Have you ever been so excited for the first Appalachian State Football game day of a season that you have trouble sleeping? Can’t wait to get up early, pop those tailgate tents, set up those chairs, wait until the sun rises over Boone before putting out the cornhole boards so they don’t get dew on…

    TK

  • watched every studio ghibli movie in a row and here’s my thoughts

    Sometimes, life puts you on an interesting detour that you didn’t know you needed. In February, I was vaguely familiar with Studio Ghibli. A Japanese studio that made animated films, yes, but beyond that, it seemed like a Japanese beta version of Pixar that those in the know celebrate. With three exceptions, these films were…

    TK

  • AEW has a MJF blind spot

    Wrote this in the hours after All Elite Wrestling’s “Double or Nothing” Pay Per View show, so the tense below is nine days previous as of posting. Going into this, take in account that this is presented from the perspective of someone who wants AEW to succeed and generally enjoys the product. – On Sunday,…

    TK

  • the spring game gave me a theory on why dowell’s app state struggles in the red zone

    Last year, the Battle at the Rock was a disorganized mess. Or so it seemed. Fans had no clue who was on the rosters, what was going on, what the scoring system or whatever else. Around 10,000 people shows up on a frigid 30-degree to watch that team last year. This year, in a high…

    TK

  • app state sports entertainment, auditmania and building projects actually finishing – march bot report

    This is a blog of the App State Board of Trustees meetings on March 18-19. These only happen four times a year, minus special or emergency meetings, and one of them is a retreat. If you want to know big-picture campus items, this is how you get plugged in. As is standard, the committee meetings…

    TK

  • purging a cfb roster in 16 months

    App State Spring Practice is ongoing. Did you know? It would be OK if you didn’t. Not many people did. And if you did, the program might be mad that you are aware? Why, because you could tell someone else, and then two people would know instead of one. And then others might know. Every…

    TK

  • go around, forever [poem]

    Art by https://www.facebook.com/Monochroma.keys/ Go go go Stop if you dare Stop if you’re done But otherwise, go The carousel awaits But it waits for none Go and wait Waiting, ready to go Go get that That is what you seek It’s just one more day One more week One more month To go and go…

    TK

  • lily’s: last vestige of the trailer bars

    After the last couple of ballgames at the Holmes Center, I decided to eat afterward. Mainly because I didn’t eat beforehand and in my aging…uh….age, I decided to eat. But instead of the fast and in-the-moment decent enough fast food, each time took me right across the street from the Holmes Center. Lily’s Snack Bar…

    TK