its crazy that a full athletic scholarship just means nothing now....i mean they get that plus all this other money...rediculous.... As a society we have spent the last 20 years plus demonizing higher education as a waste of time and money, that has consequences. People can't on one hand say "this ...

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48759931/2026-sun-belt-conference-college-football-preview-predictions-every-team No one in the SBC above 75 and nine teams below 100 including us. Congrats to everyone that wanted to pay players, you killed football for us. You're welcome! Sorry for...

Michigan tends to win this event often. Big pockets and big hearts.

AppinVA wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 03, 2026 12:26 pm

biggie wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 03, 2026 11:46 am

Weird for Black Saturday to be so early.

Not really. In my world, Black Saturday is also tomorrow. And next Saturday. And the one after that…

This guy Black Saturdays.

I don’t fully understand why we’re going back and forth on non competes in corporate America. College football has turned into a professional sport, and that’s really the only comparison you need. Women’s soccer, nfl, mlb, nba, etc… all have contracts; most of which are multi year where they can on...

Will these rules apply to coaches as well? Coaches actually have buyouts in their deals so I say let's treat both the same and put buyouts on the players as well. App should get 100k every time a P4 wants one of our players and 50k from a G6 school. We have to put the education first and transferri...

Olivier Rioux is in the portal. Bring the circus to Boone!!

My 3 concerns if this does in fact happen… 1. Can App afford to spend enough to be competitive against the top G5 programs? 2. Will ESPN as the rights holders promote it as its own entity or just use it as a way to market the P4 league? 3. Will whoever runs it, whether it’s NCAA or a new standalone...

Okay, for those of us who haven't been watching every game this season, how much of a surprise has this season been so far? And is there any chance it's repeatable, or should we expect a mass portal exodus in April, and therefore enjoy the ride we are on for what it is?

The belief is that FCS will have the 3rd level national champion at some point and a lot of FCS schools see themselves in tier 2 so there will be more trying to move up. Tarleton State, South Dakota State, Campbell, Montana, NC A&T, Eastern Kentucky, FAMU, and a few others have interest in moving u...

This all starts and ends with our AD and entire athletic administration. They did not embrace NIL and still continue to not have any significant push to raise additional NIL funds, it seems they are content at pure "revenue share" by pulling all but the scraps from other programs to pay for footbal...

biggie wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 19, 2026 11:18 am

I would guess that most that have money to give are older and don't want to support NIL.

That would include me, and I am proud to be in that group. Zero interest in having any money I give to the university go towards bribing athletes to stick around for a year.

Wasn't Rubino the Holes PK when we beat them in Chapel Hill?

The title game will be interesting because Cristobal is a recruit-first coach. His game plan is to put 11 athletes out there that are better than your 11 at that same time, and hope the disparity is enough to win. We might get a bit of an insight as to how that will play at our level because I see o...

Talent is one thing you need, but being well trained will help you use that talent. Most sports can be carried by one or two stars; however, football is a sport that requires you to play as a team. lesser players that play as a team will win more times than a talented team that does not play as a t...

biggie wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 09, 2026 1:55 pm

As mentioned.

Mac's parents are both App State alums. His dad and I went to school together. I was hoping this would happen.

This is step one of how to be successful as a G5 these days. Get kids who on paper are good talent. Step two is to coach them and improve them. Hopefully we have more hits than misses in terms of what they can actually do on the field. Step three is to win games, win conference titles. If we make a ...

Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting. Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience. If that was the case we should have won the first game t...

I'm happy with how this half went. It could have gone a lot better but given who we are playing versus who they are playing, I'll take a shot at winning this late.

All of you make valid points, yet none make me feel better about the current state/future prospects of G6 football. You shouldn't feel good about it. The "successful" program at our level is going to be the one the embraces the new normal and makes the most of it. Nevada has the right idea. Pitch t...