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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • nfl man calls nfl plays, loses college bowl game to rival – birmingham bowl postmortem

    You hoped for something different. Despite all the disadvantages, you hoped for a bowl win. You wanted Vulcan Ass Man to be in the trophy case. Then, the most unique bowl game possible with new potential heroes was lost for the same reasons games were lost in September, October and November. Running the ball? It…

    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

  • 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