I'm not sure why athletes can't be employees..... I was an employee of the school as a student. I went to class as a student and worked at Legends as an employee. I think making them employees opens the door to a player filing a lawsuit saying that he shouldn’t be required to attend class as a stud...

The Supreme Court actually said it was broke, in a unanimous decision. Like it or not, in our country that means that it was broke. We will just have to disagree on that one. Honestly, what is there to disagree with? My post was not an opinion; it is a fact. The Supreme Court is tasked with interpr...

I interned in Lexington one summer while at App and ate Speedy's or Lexington BBQ for lunch at least 3 times a week. Good times.

But I like Texas style brisket best.....sorry, I know I am a disgrace to every other native North Carolinians, and will now see myself out.

Equipment budget is not the first thing I think of when cutting spending in a university athletic department. I would think it would be the last place to see cuts. UVA (who you would think has enough money) makes their field hockey goalies supply their own goalie gear for use in games. Most schools...

There is a lot of bloat in athletic departments and a lot of the bloat is with support staff. For example, look at the 9 schools my daughter talked to for field hockey. I'm using that as an example because it is a low profile sport that generate no money for the university. 2 schools (1 ACC, 1 BigTe...

The biggest P4 will still have different college sports. The SEC especially has been pouring money (earned from football primarily) into all kinds of Olympic sports for years. Look at the swimming, gymnastics, track and field, etc championships and there are tons of SEC schools involved. Also look ...

Should non-Sunbelt teams carry the same weight? I would say high profile sports carry more weight, but amongst lower profile sports, conference affiliation shouldn't factor Also, the Sun Belt needs to sponsor field hockey (3 teams) with the 2 CUSA members thrown in (and Longwood too I guess for 6).

Football F : losing record, no bowl, fired coach. Wrestling B: very good year, did not win tourney. Volleyball B: good year, no championship. Field Hockey B: good year, no championship. Cross country x2 A: conferences champions Golf: x2 C probably good as we can do x 2. Track/field x2 C: slight imp...

Well, just my opinion but although I completely agree that NIL needs to be reformed and have some governance applied, a presidential executive order is absolutely NOT the way to do it. Feel free to disagree. I agree in principle it certainly is not ideal, but since EOs are theoretically about instr...

So, this is related to the NIL mess. I have always enjoyed watching college softball, but haven’t watched too much lately. I decided this weekend to watch a few games including App and some nationally ranked teams. There wasn’t a single mention of NIL, the portal, transfers, etc. They did talk abou...

We, the fans, do have some control over this mess. G5 fans, sorry but we don't. The masses will continue to watch the same 40 schools on TV, while large donors brag about the funding they provide to their peers and coattail riders. The biggest winners are the second tier "power" schools in football...

I am not really sure what the big deal is. Your school is your school. Things may change, but it is still your school. The changes are for everyone not just Appalachian. So, if everyone has to play by the same rules the system is fair. I would say that the system is fairer now than it has ever been...

I believe we were top 25 in baseball in 2012. Numerous rankings had us in the top 30 most of that year. That's probably the most impressive as there are something like 300 D1 baseball teams. Baseball has a ton of ranked wins. Virginia, OU, LSU x2, Wake a few times, NCState...all the Sun Belt ranked...

Go back and check men's soccer from 1970-1980 and you'll find those Vaughn Christian coached teams consistently in the top 10 nationally. The matches vs Clemson at the time were epic. When I was in school, I remember hearing how great the soccer team used to be. That's perhaps the saddest part of d...

After seeing the post about womens tennis getting a win versus a ranked opponent (congrats to the ladies), I got to thinking about all App teams histories with national rankings at the top level (FBS for football, and post 1971 D1 for everyone else) and thought it would be more interesting here than...

Our radio play by play guys are excellent. That would be Matt Present. He, like Adam, is very good. Matt and Adam are so good I find myself nearly always choosing the radio stream over TV streaming, though that may be because I can listen to the radio while doing other things instead of being stuck...

Those of us who get these movie references are the same ones who value Marshall as an arch rival.

Marshall is a rival for those of us who now need a colonoscopy. JMU is a rival for me, as I live in enemy territory. All that said, I found that I was more upset over losing to the stink than I was losing to the turds last week. So I guess sometimes I’m more moved by the sizzle than the steak. I st...

If it came to pass that the top 30 or so football and basketball programs split off into some sort of pro set up, while everyone else (and even other sports at the big boys) operated on a D2 model, I think I would be fine with that eventually.