An Incredible Day

[Apptrain]

On a separate note to Apptrain. My intent for this thread was to celebrate an outstanding game by our team and fans. Not to turn it into a bitch and moan thread.

I appreciate your passion but the timing of your posts last night hit a nerve.

I’m all in for anyone who supports this University in what ever capacity they can. From the highest donors to the individual or family that can only make a game.

Let’s all enjoy this next chapter for our football team and our University.

Go Apps!

Seeing a photo taken of the empty east side set me off. Sorry.I sit on the east side and did not know how empty the outskirts were while at the game. The visual hit a nerve.

Thanks for proving your an a$$.

Hopefully one day you will grow out of the name calling. I was seriously explaining how the photo rubbed me wrong. Good day to you.

[NewApp]

I hate that a team of this quality doesn’t get more support at the first Sunbelt championship game. I don’t care about excuses. Show up and support.The team and coaches bust their butts all week to give us a good team. We can at least sit through 50 degree weather and a mist. Any alums of App dealt with much harsher elements when in school up here.

I always say: Worry about who was there vs. who wasn't...... We had a great, loud, energetic crowd who showed up and had fun in conditions that were predicted to be worse than they actually were.

It was great to see a big crowd on the field, celebrating after the game vs. running for cover.

Great job by the team and great job by the fans for showing up. Those who were there stayed for 4 quarters and the students were great today!

If we want to be looked at as a big time football school one day we must get more support. Ok if you don’t want to compare our attendance with P5 championship games, percentage wise. But I bet ECU would have packed much closer to their capacity in their stadium for a championship game. I believe we should be able to at least compete with the likes of ECU.

We are on the short list of football teams that play in the mountains. Our weather is unpredictable. It’s December.

Again, our coaches and players fed off of the energy of the crowd.

We won, if you want to have a bitch fest go somewhere else and do it. Enjoy the moment. Celebrate and enjoy what this team has. accomplished.

I don’t give a about what ECU would have done. They were sitting home doing nothing while our guys proved themselves. Again.

[NewApp]

I hate that a team of this quality doesn’t get more support at the first Sunbelt championship game. I don’t care about excuses. Show up and support.The team and coaches bust their butts all week to give us a good team. We can at least sit through 50 degree weather and a mist. Any alums of App dealt with much harsher elements when in school up here.

I always say: Worry about who was there vs. who wasn't...... We had a great, loud, energetic crowd who showed up and had fun in conditions that were predicted to be worse than they actually were.

It was great to see a big crowd on the field, celebrating after the game vs. running for cover.

Great job by the team and great job by the fans for showing up. Those who were there stayed for 4 quarters and the students were great today!

If we want to be looked at as a big time football school one day we must get more support. Ok if you don’t want to compare our attendance with P5 championship games, percentage wise. But I bet ECU would have packed much closer to their capacity in their stadium for a championship game. I believe we should be able to at least compete with the likes of ECU.

We are on the short list of football teams that play in the mountains. Our weather is unpredictable. It’s December.

Again, our coaches and players fed off of the energy of the crowd.

We won, if you want to have a bitch fest go somewhere else and do it. Enjoy the moment. Celebrate and enjoy what this team has. accomplished.

I don’t give a about what ECU would have done. They were sitting home doing nothing while our guys proved themselves. Again.

No, they were in Raleigh getting beaten 58-3 by NC State

[CoachRob]

I hate that a team of this quality doesn’t get more support at the first Sunbelt championship game. I don’t care about excuses. Show up and support.The team and coaches bust their butts all week to give us a good team. We can at least sit through 50 degree weather and a mist. Any alums of App dealt with much harsher elements when in school up here.

Have you looked at the other games happening this weekend? Other than the SEC championship, I don’t think I’ve seen a single game that didn’t have large swaths of their stands empty. It looked like there were about 25 people at the MAC championship. Boise St looks about half full for the MWC championship.

We all proudly give our support for the Mountaineers. If we didn’t we wouldn’t waste time on an internet message board. However many of us, myself included, aren’t made of money. I budget to go to one App game a year because that’s all I can really do. I’d venture to say I’m not the only one in a similar situation. I’m so happy that my boys made it to the championship, and won it, but that was an unplanned game with one week to prepare for it. Most people simply can’t make that work because we have jobs, and families, and budgets.

But go ahead. Keep complaining about everybody who wasn’t there and making fandom a competition.

I can’t argue against someone’s budget, I for 1 know that very well.
But from my point few, as an App fanatic, when the schedule came out over the summer and it was announced that the championship game was on this date with chance of hosting, I made sure that Dec 1 was free and planned well ahead for it. I pretty much EXPECTED App to be playing the game, and if not, I’d use the day for other priorities.

I just don’t bye that as a very good excuse. If you can finically do it, I’d expect most fans who have follow App football long enough to have prepared to make that game well before it was clinched. But again, maybe that’s just me.