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  • gillin wants to increase the athletics budget by $50 million, miller hill is getting gentrified and like 30-50 other board of trustee march meeting highlights

    Yeah, this is a long blog. Basically, I watched the committee meetings and main meeting from the March 13-14 Appalachian State Board of Trustees extravaganza. The committees are where the detailed presentations happen. The main meeting, the main event of the early weekend, is where everything gets stamped, but if you just watch that, you…

    TK

  • app state basketball absolutely sucked to end the season (both teams)

    Hey, did you watch your sixth-seeded women’s and men’s basketball teams lose to double-digit seeds who played multiple games in as many days today? Well, I did! There’s not going to be a lot of analysis in this post. More venting than anything else. To start, the App State Women’s Basketball team, lost to a…

    TK

  • the sun belt’s interpretation of its basketball tiebreakers screwed app state wbb

    Friday was exciting for Sun Belt Basketball. It was a terrible day for App State’s hoops teams, who lost by a combined 56 points to cap multi-game losing streaks. But now is the Sun Belt Tournament, so wipe the slate clean, it’s time to win or go home. For both the men and women, App…

    TK

  • short queen szn: norris named permanent chancellor

    It was a pleasant surprise that everyone involved with App State liked. Seriously, I haven’t seen one negative comment on App State Chancellor Heather Norris. Going into Thursday, it was unknown who the new grand poobah would be. There were three finalists, but 11 years ago, there were also three semi-public finalists, and Sheri Everts…

    TK

  • i’m on a six app state game/dual in-person losing streak – travels over the last few weeks

    When I’m in Boone, I still get asked if I work for the newspaper in Boone. I left that job five years ago next month, right when the pandemic started. I try to get up to games as much as I can. But being three hours away, it’s not like I can get off work…

    TK

  • coach dowell talked to the media for 33 minutes so here’s a recap

    Kind of an out-of-nowhere press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Been 13 days since late National Signing Day, Spring Practice ain’t starting for a little bit longer and President’s Day was Monday. But it’s also Dowell’s first non-introductory press conference, aka his first one without a suit. When I saw the video pop up on…

    TK

  • app state football has 113 roster players and a full coaching staff

    The transfer portal is closed, late signing day is passed, coaches are hired and the rosters are calm. For now. App State Head Coach Dowell Loggains is now gearing up for his first Spring Practice season as the head man. When are there practices? We won’t know until they start, as is App State tradition.…

    TK

  • mayonnaise game now friday, ensures four-day labor day weekend

    The App State Football season opener originally scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 28, is now and hopefully permanently on Friday, Aug. 29. If you didn’t know or don’t plan ahead in any aspect of your life, the game is UNC Charlotte “hosting” App State in Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. That’s where the Panthers play.…

    TK

  • app state wrestling – too big to be small and too small to be big?

    I was thinking about this topic before the Bellarmine dual on Friday. If I did this and then saw App State Wrestling hold onto a 23-19 dual win in Louisville, I’d look really dumb. Now that I’ve avoided that outcome, I’m gonna write on something that’ll make me sound kinda dumb. When App State beat…

    TK

  • officiating isn’t rigged you moron

    Hey moron! Yes, you! That game the team you hate won? It wasn’t rigged. Those zebras out there who made the call that you hate? They’re not trying to favor one team over another. Just stop your whining. It’s tiring, repetitive and has no basis in reality. Do I have your attention? Good. You see…

    TK