Cobb: ACC team in Kidd Brewer

[moehler]

well, they already are traveling to Sunbelt schools a lot further away than Boone, plus, when we played them, we were their biggest game, in terms of attendance almost every year, we seemed to garnish more attention from both fan bases than any other game. I believe they need us, having trouble filling their stadium, and it seems the last 10 years the traditional rivalry they had with Carolina, Duke, NC State, has really declined, they seem to be the odd man out in the ACC, no one really cares about playing them anymore, they are just members. I think they need a new rival, even if its outside the ACC, and we are the logical choice.

[ASUPATCH]

I would compare App Wake to what some other states do. Colorado vs Colorado State is the most important game for each every season even though one is Pac 10 and the other is Mountain West. Georgia Tech and Georgia State should do the same, hell they share the same city. LSU and Tulane even had a long standing rival game up until 2009. I see no reason why a lower attendance ACC school and sunbelt school can't have a rivalry.

[Saint3333]

Chill with insults. Then go back and read you are responding to the wrong poster.

EVERY program in America takes a bus for a three hour trip, get a clue.

My Bozo comment was not aimed at you, so I am sorry for the confusion. I guess time will tell whether the Triangle ACC schools will ride up the mountain. I say no, but feel free to rub my nose in it when it happens.

Insults aren't welcome no matter who they are directed to.

As for your original point that ACC schools don't take bus rides to smaller programs, that notion will be false when NCSU travels to ODU.

[moehler]

man, I cant wait until we start playing UNCC in football, if we have fans from both schools hating each other this early, years before we actually meet, imagine what its going to be like weeks before the actual game. Its going fun sitting back and watching you guys go at it.

[EastHallApp]

it depends on the team, I think Wake will be in Boone within 5 years, Duke 50/50 in 5 years, NC State, possible, but wouldn't bet on it, Carolina, no way in hell.

I might add a few years to the timetable, but this is basically my thinking as well.

[Kgfish]

well, they already are traveling to Sunbelt schools a lot further away than Boone, plus, when we played them, we were their biggest game, in terms of attendance almost every year, we seemed to garnish more attention from both fan bases than any other game. I believe they need us, having trouble filling their stadium, and it seems the last 10 years the traditional rivalry they had with Carolina, Duke, NC State, has really declined, they seem to be the odd man out in the ACC, no one really cares about playing them anymore, they are just members. I think they need a new rival, even if its outside the ACC, and we are the logical choice.

With Presbyterian already on the schedule Wake desperately needed another FBS home game for 2013. Their schedule wasn't finalized until Feb 2013. ULM was one of the few "winnable" games out there. They agreed to come to WS for a return trip. Louisiana is also a fertile recruiting area and this got the Deacons exposure in the state. The same can not be said for Boone.

[WataugaMan]

ULM was one of the few "winnable" games out there.

So, how did that work out for them?

[AppGrad78]

I have a hunch Georgia Tech will be the first ACC team to play at Kidd Brewer.

[Gonzo]

man, I cant wait until we start playing UNCC in football, if we have fans from both schools hating each other this early, years before we actually meet, imagine what its going to be like weeks before the actual game. Its going fun sitting back and watching you guys go at it.

I honestly think it might die down the more UNCC plays and the more humble pie they eat. I've already noticed a decline in their arrogance after last year when they lost to a D3 school had had to beg their students to show up to their inaugural season.

[Saint3333]

I have a hunch Georgia Tech will be the first ACC team to play at Kidd Brewer.

No chance, that is a five hour trip of which 95% is on a four lane road, way too tough of a trip.

[T-Dog]

I have a hunch Georgia Tech will be the first ACC team to play at Kidd Brewer.

No chance, that is a five hour trip of which 95% is on a four lane road, way too tough of a trip.

I dunno, par of that 5% goes by Woodlands. It could be a life-changing experience for the ATL folks before they even play the game.

And I'd say it's more like 1% now since a lot of the 321 stretch through Blowing Rock is now 4-lanes. Only the last section is 2-lanes and the stretch through Blowing Rock is nearly done.

[1ASU78]

A 3 hour bus ride in which 95% of the travel is on a 4+ lane highways (40 and 421) is problematic?

You guys are going to love traveling to Marshall.

First I wasn't talking about Charlotte. What we will do is probably very different from what NCSU will do. Maybe the Triangle ACC schools do 3 hour bus rides to smaller programs, but that would surprise me for programs with basically unlimited travel budgets.

Secondly, I didn't say if Cobb pulled it off it would be a surprise, I said it would be a coup. That is a compliment Bozo, and not a back-handed one. Jeez, some people just want to be offended.

As a guest to the forum, you might want to ease up on the name calling.

Struggling to follow your abstract thought pattern here: A coup? As in Cobb would be usurping power from the Triangle?

And the term "pulls this off" is what indicated to me that you thought this was some big surprise. Not coup. I know it hurts your delusions about our program and how it compares to UNCC, but us luring Wake or another ACC program to play in Boone is not a farfetched idea.

Also Wake owes us one at least as we have played them nearly 20 times since 1975 and have won six times and tied them twice. I was there in '75 when we first played Wake and beat them on a last second field goal. Get some history, Niner's, before you go calling "coup". We have plenty.

Then you had the lights turned out on you while we were still celebrating! Ha

[GoApps70]

Could actually envision a good rivalry develop with Wake. Their fans
seemed to be in it when we played them on a regular basis. Believe
their coaches were just afraid of being fired with another loss to us.
Right time of the year could be a wonderful mountain drive for people
to see the foliage, and wives to go shopping.

[asu66]

A 3 hour bus ride in which 95% of the travel is on a 4+ lane highways (40 and 421) is problematic?

You guys are going to love traveling to Marshall.

First I wasn't talking about Charlotte. What we will do is probably very different from what NCSU will do. Maybe the Triangle ACC schools do 3 hour bus rides to smaller programs, but that would surprise me for programs with basically unlimited travel budgets.

Secondly, I didn't say if Cobb pulled it off it would be a surprise, I said it would be a coup. That is a compliment Bozo, and not a back-handed one. Jeez, some people just want to be offended.

As a guest to the forum, you might want to ease up on the name calling.

Struggling to follow your abstract thought pattern here: A coup? As in Cobb would be usurping power from the Triangle?

And the term "pulls this off" is what indicated to me that you thought this was some big surprise. Not coup. I know it hurts your delusions about our program and how it compares to UNCC, but us luring Wake or another ACC program to play in Boone is not a farfetched idea.

Also Wake owes us one at least as we have played them nearly 20 times since 1975 and have won six times and tied them twice. I was there in '75 when we first played Wake and beat them on a last second field goal. Get some history, Niner's, before you go calling "coup". We have plenty.

Then you had the lights turned out on you while we were still celebrating! Ha

Here's some trivia for Mountaineer fans concerning that '75 win over Wake; that would be followed later in the season with a big win over the USC Gamecocks. A group of enterprising fans, many of whom are members of this and other Mountaineer forums, came up with a bumper-sticker slogan, "Give 'em Hell, Apps." Several thousand of those stickers were printed in Appalachian Black & Gold" and were handed out for wide distribution. Groves Stadium was plastered with them by the time those stadium lights were switched off; as were the parked cars of many a Deacon fan. The Deac Nation was not happy.

Unless it's been taken down through the process of rotating sign replacement by the NCDOT in recent months, one of those stickers still adorns a highway sign on US 421 just across the Yadkin River into Forsyth County, a little west of the Lewisville exit. We grin every time we pass through that area knowing that the "Give 'em Hell, Apps" sticker is still there--patiently awaiting the next game in the series.

BTW, my next door neighbor in those days was an LRC grad; but had just completed his MBA at Wake. His front door was mysteriously plastered with a few of those stickers before he and his family got home from the game. We never did figure out who might have done such a juvenile thing!

[IM4ASU]

Chuck - I am proud to say that I am the one who shimmied up the pole and placed that sticker on the sign. My accomplice was noneother than Doug Glenn. He was driving the get-a-way car. We also placed stickers throughout the Wake campus at several strategic locations.

[NewApp]

Chuck, don't forget to add we beat ECU that same year on a Boone native, Jerry Harmon FG. The last time I saw Jerry, he was in management with the State Employees Credit Union. Super nice guy.

[WataugaMan]

I grew up in the same neighborhood as Jerry Harmon, he was/is three years my senior. He was a year younger than my older brother, thus, they were a "tag team" back in the day.

[JTApps1]

Chuck - I am proud to say that I am the one who shimmied up the pole and placed that sticker on the sign. My accomplice was noneother than Doug Glenn. He was driving the get-a-way car. We also placed stickers throughout the Wake campus at several strategic locations.

Strategic as in the bumper of the President's car???