They played an above average HIGH SCHOOL TEAM with 20 players suspended. It’s not like they opened with Georgia or Ohio St! The defense should still be a concern to everyone! They were 45 point favorites! 🤣
Mack is Back Part 2
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I was there. Found myself pulling for App since it was a close game.
Goodness. So the other team shouldn’t be able to have fun playing a game of football? No one is saying they don’t have stuff to work on. Christ, y’all. 😅
You know, you're right. Shame on me!
They were ONLY missing 3 Starters and still I heard at least 5-6 players who had transferred from P5 conferences so I think they might be just slightly better then a HS team
Yep. SEC and ACC transfers on that squad.
Grimes and Conley being out isn’t ideal. Think Chiz played vanilla last night but we’ll see what they really have this week.
Division 1 sack leader Buck Buchanan winner, Isaiah Land, did not play. That's was a huge hit for FAMU. He'll be playing on Sundays.
Next week will be about stopping App St 3 RBs and forcing Brice to beat you throwing the ball.
More of the same. Not much of a pass rush and being taken apart in the secondary.
Correct.
FAMU had a good game plan of getting the ball out quick to their electric playmakers to offset the pass rush. Losing Grimes right at the start hurt. Hopefully Grimes gets cleared and is OK.
State just scheduled App St for 2025 and 2026. Will play them week 1 in 2025 in Boone.
Super vanilla I have to believe. But you're right if that's our defense all season it will be a LONNNNNNG SEASON. I was at the game with the wife and everyone thought Maye will win the Heisman, had to shake my head and.bite my tongue...
I don't believe they were holding back. As one guy said, above average High School team. Hilarious!
Several first-years are ready to make some noise for Tarheels. Maye threw for 5 touchdown passes on Saturday night, setting the all-time UNC record for a first-career start. He also threw for 297 yards and rushed for 55 more. Howell first-career start completed 15-of-24 passes for 245 yards and 2 touchdowns in a win over South Carolina in 2019. We can acknowledge while Howell’s circumstances facing an SEC opponent rather than FCS team were a bit more difficult, Maye’s numbers were better overall.
How about Omarion Hampton being the first Tar Heel to rush for over 100 yards in his debut since Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice in 1946?
And a grand total of 3 players (yes, 3) were even on the 2-deep on offense or defense.
Facts matter.
DM did something that Howell never accomplished in Chapel Hill. He threw for 4 touchdowns in a half. The more interesting comparison would be DM’s father throwing for 311 yards, 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. Heels had only three games without a turnover last season and at the least one sack every game. Just as impressive is the fact that DM didn’t have any turnovers his first game.
OL and DL are the main concerns imo. A lot like last year. Was not a huge fan of the hire. Bateman took a lot of heat, some of it deservingly, but if you look at it, he was there at the height of the pandemic, basically recruited two good classes, and never really got much of a chance to implement his scheme with his guys. Mediocre OL play wins us at least a couple more games (VaTech and Pitt come to mind) and he likely keeps his job.
Chizik hasn't rolled out a good defense in years. It's a very basic scheme if it's anything like what he ran during his last stint which is quite a departure from what we've been running.. And he's not a great recruiter. We're about to miss on three of the top DL in-state. Some people say we only need one this year. I tend to disagree given how things have gone with that unit over the years.
Be that as it may, there's still some upside with Chizik. He is very big on teaching. He did improve the defense under Fedora. And winning 8 or 9 games or finishing near the top in the ACC isn't setting the bar too high, especially given the amount of talent we've accumulated. So, if he can just teach solid fundamentals, and limit big plays, it might work out.
Chizik hasn't rolled out a good defense in years. It's a very basic scheme if it's anything like what he ran during his last stint which is quite a departure from what we've been running.. And he's not a great recruiter. We're about to miss on three of the top DL in-state. Some people say we only need one this year. I tend to disagree given how things have gone with that unit over the years.
Be that as it may, there's still some upside with Chizik. He is very big on teaching. He did improve the defense under Fedora. And winning 8 or 9 games or finishing near the top in the ACC isn't setting the bar too high, especially given the amount of talent we've accumulated. So, if he can just teach solid fundamentals, and limit big plays, it might work out.
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Nepsey- Weren't you teammates with Choo Choo?
Well Volquest is moving to ON3 at midnight. Signed up for $1.00 for a year.
I was at App State during the championship runs from 2005-2007 (the only year they didn't win it was my senior year, to this day I STILL haven't forgiven them for that one
This is one of those days that I will never, ever forget. I went home for the weekend to watch the game in Winston with a few buddies at a local drinking establishment, all of us just holding on to the hope that we could just keep it respectable and not get beat 59-10. I remember watching Michigan just pummel us on their opening drive and how Mike Hart was making us look like a pee wee football team. But when we tied the game at 7 and then again at 14, there was this kind of optimistic feeling that I can't really even explain that just made me think "You know what, I think we really can hang with these guys".
Once we got the lead up to 28-17 at the half, although it was freaking awesome - you just knew Michigan (who was #5 in the country at the time with plenty of national title aspirations) would come out swinging big time in the 2nd half, and boy did they. After being down 32-31 late in the 4th, Armanti Edwards (being only a sophomore at the time) cemented himself as one of the all-timers in App State history - getting us all the way down to the 5, where we kicked the go-ahead FG with 30 seconds left. And wouldn't you know it, even those 30 seconds was plenty of time for Michigan to get down to the 20-yard line to attempt the game-winning FG after a huge completion from Chad Henne to Mario Manningham.
What happened next still gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes to even think about. "It'll be Jason Gingell, out of the hold of Mesko. Good snap, good hold...AND THE KICK IS BLOCKED! Appalachian State HAS STUNNED the college football world - one of the greatest upsets in sports history!"
Needless to say...what was going to be a pretty relaxed and chill weekend at home with the family turned into me and my buddies IMMEDIATELY leaving Winston to head back to Boone to partake in the weekend-long celebration of one of the biggest upsets of all-time.
I was at App State during the championship runs from 2005-2007 (the only year they didn't win it was my senior year, to this day I STILL haven't forgiven them for that one
This is one of those days that I will never, ever forget. I went home for the weekend to watch the game in Winston with a few buddies at a local drinking establishment, all of us just holding on to the hope that we could just keep it respectable and not get beat 59-10. I remember watching Michigan just pummel us on their opening drive and how Mike Hart was making us look like a pee wee football team. But when we tied the game at 7 and then again at 14, there was this kind of optimistic feeling that I can't really even explain that just made me think "You know what, I think we really can hang with these guys".
Once we got the lead up to 28-17 at the half, although it was freaking awesome - you just knew Michigan (who was #5 in the country at the time with plenty of national title aspirations) would come out swinging big time in the 2nd half, and boy did they. After being down 32-31 late in the 4th, Armanti Edwards (being only a sophomore at the time) cemented himself as one of the all-timers in App State history - getting us all the way down to the 5, where we kicked the go-ahead FG with 30 seconds left. And wouldn't you know it, even those 30 seconds was plenty of time for Michigan to get down to the 20-yard line to attempt the game-winning FG after a huge completion from Chad Henne to Mario Manningham.
What happened next still gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes to even think about. "It'll be Jason Gingell, out of the hold of Mesko. Good snap, good hold...AND THE KICK IS BLOCKED! Appalachian State HAS STUNNED the college football world - one of the greatest upsets in sports history!"
Needless to say...what was going to be a pretty relaxed and chill weekend at home with the family turned into me and my buddies IMMEDIATELY leaving Winston to head back to Boone to partake in the weekend-long celebration of one of the biggest upsets of all-time.
I’m trying not to laugh as that might be us tomorrow, lol.
I was just looking at their depth chart. It's bad. Talent is way down in Blacksburg. Not sure if I've ever seen it that bad. No recruiting bump for Pry either. I mean on paper at least.
