Dowell Loggains and his recruiting staff are absolutely phenomenal.

[AppWyo]

let’s just go all in on the thread derail

That looks like diet coke.

Pepsi

Or Dr Pepper Zero

Tab

Could be, the bubbles look right.

[AppDub]

RC

[Pikapp79]

Will wait on results.

[mtnjax]

For Texas style in NC...Jon G's in Peachland, NC, Apple City BBQ in Taylorsville, NC, Dampf Good BBQ in Cary, NC, and Black Powder in Jamestown, NC. All really good and I grew up in Lexington, NC!!

Calling Apple City "Texas Style" is wild. I've been there and they have good NC Q

[ericsaid]

Stars matter at the 5 and upper 4 levels. More players from there go on to college and NFL success than anyone below them. After that it's more about buy in, the right fits and honestly some luck.

I do like Dowell's philosophies on recruiting. Multi-sport athletes, team captains and fighting for the right players. Some assistants who I feel are below-average coaches are above-average recruiters.

The only reason there is a facade that stars matter is because they give high stars to the usual power programs that are in the playoffs every year based on size, offers, and stats. Indiana has proven so far that those 4-5 stars don't even matter if you got the right fits for your system, good coaching, and your players play smart.

I agree on Dowell's recruiting strategy but hope he is considering change of direction and toughness like Cignetti is as well. Folks need to listen to Cignetti because he is beating the breaks off a lot of really smart coaches. I do hope that our coaches instill discipline in our guys and we see a lot less mistakes. You can't beat teams of equal or better talent if you play dumb. We have to cut down on our major mistakes to improve on our 5-8 record.

You know, what’s crazy is that App State was one of the few programs to actually give Cignetti consistent trouble in the last four years.

Despite the final record, something was being done right on the mountain. Playing with more discipline easily results in more wins across coaching staffs. Drops, poor decisions at QB in the Redzone, and penalties were a big, big difference in have 8 wins and 8 losses. Margins were that close.


In a typical college football evaluation, you would say that you could expect improvement year over year. Now it’s impossible to say. What is possible to say is that if App and App fans/donors don’t find it in themselves to get onboard with NIL and revenue sharing, App will become Georgia Southern and Marshall, another FCS move-up afterthought.