Coastal - 3:30pm - Discussion

[spacemonkey]

I love the idea of keeping traditions, but in all seriousness, what real unique traditions do we have besides pointing to an end zone while Bugler's dream is being played? App State chant, holding up 4 fingers as we enter the 4th quarter (not unique), "Its an Appstate first down"(not unique). Not being a smart alleck and those on this board thst know me know I love this school and team, but if you go to other schools throughout the ACC, SEC, even other G5s, you see a lot of different real traditions. Maybe its a good time to blend some new in with the old. Forgot one tradition - drunk students in black and gold sliding down a beautifully manicured hill that gets destroyed by the end of the season.

Get up off of that thang....uhhhh!!! Iykyk

By far the best.....get up off of that thing. Should be taught to the Freshmen. I really like "Long neck iced cold beer never broke my heart...at the end of the second quarter. I like hells bells at th end 3rd beginning 4th. Back in black and hells bells should be never changed.

[Seattleapp]

I love the idea of keeping traditions, but in all seriousness, what real unique traditions do we have besides pointing to an end zone while Bugler's dream is being played? App State chant, holding up 4 fingers as we enter the 4th quarter (not unique), "Its an Appstate first down"(not unique). Not being a smart alleck and those on this board thst know me know I love this school and team, but if you go to other schools throughout the ACC, SEC, even other G5s, you see a lot of different real traditions. Maybe its a good time to blend some new in with the old. Forgot one tradition - drunk students in black and gold sliding down a beautifully manicured hill that gets destroyed by the end of the season.

To age myself. I used to love the tunnel shaking when the beginning of hells bell’s would ring out. That always got me hyped

[HurricaneYosef]

We only punted once

Offense was not the problem

[WASU 93]

I love the idea of keeping traditions, but in all seriousness, what real unique traditions do we have besides pointing to an end zone while Bugler's dream is being played? App State chant, holding up 4 fingers as we enter the 4th quarter (not unique), "Its an Appstate first down"(not unique). Not being a smart alleck and those on this board thst know me know I love this school and team, but if you go to other schools throughout the ACC, SEC, even other G5s, you see a lot of different real traditions. Maybe its a good time to blend some new in with the old. Forgot one tradition - drunk students in black and gold sliding down a beautifully manicured hill that gets destroyed by the end of the season.

Winning

[AppSt94]

We only punted once

Offense was not the problem

2-7 on third down in the second half doesn’t help.

[Saint3333]

Giving the defense a pass is a weird take on what everyone witnessed yesterday.

[AppDub]

I love the idea of keeping traditions, but in all seriousness, what real unique traditions do we have besides pointing to an end zone while Bugler's dream is being played? App State chant, holding up 4 fingers as we enter the 4th quarter (not unique), "Its an Appstate first down"(not unique). Not being a smart alleck and those on this board thst know me know I love this school and team, but if you go to other schools throughout the ACC, SEC, even other G5s, you see a lot of different real traditions. Maybe its a good time to blend some new in with the old. Forgot one tradition - drunk students in black and gold sliding down a beautifully manicured hill that gets destroyed by the end of the season.

Get up off of that thang....uhhhh!!! Iykyk

By far the best.....get up off of that thing. Should be taught to the Freshmen. I really like "Long neck iced cold beer never broke my heart...at the end of the second quarter. I like hells bells at th end 3rd beginning 4th. Back in black and hells bells should be never changed.

I miss the hells bells to back in black intro. But again, both are played at other universities. Not really unique, but I love them.

[AppDub]

I love the idea of keeping traditions, but in all seriousness, what real unique traditions do we have besides pointing to an end zone while Bugler's dream is being played? App State chant, holding up 4 fingers as we enter the 4th quarter (not unique), "Its an Appstate first down"(not unique). Not being a smart alleck and those on this board thst know me know I love this school and team, but if you go to other schools throughout the ACC, SEC, even other G5s, you see a lot of different real traditions. Maybe its a good time to blend some new in with the old. Forgot one tradition - drunk students in black and gold sliding down a beautifully manicured hill that gets destroyed by the end of the season.

Winning

Best tradition BY FAR!

[1ASU78]

I love the idea of keeping traditions, but in all seriousness, what real unique traditions do we have besides pointing to an end zone while Bugler's dream is being played? App State chant, holding up 4 fingers as we enter the 4th quarter (not unique), "Its an Appstate first down"(not unique). Not being a smart alleck and those on this board thst know me know I love this school and team, but if you go to other schools throughout the ACC, SEC, even other G5s, you see a lot of different real traditions. Maybe its a good time to blend some new in with the old. Forgot one tradition - drunk students in black and gold sliding down a beautifully manicured hill that gets destroyed by the end of the season.

Get up off of that thang....uhhhh!!! Iykyk

Absolutely one of my favorites!!

[NattyBumppo'sRevenge]

Giving the defense a pass is a weird take on what everyone witnessed yesterday.

I don’t get it either. We scored 37 points, but let a team averaging 14 points a game score 45 points. Perhaps there were specific times offense failed, but I’d say it was on 80% of the time while defense did what they were supposed to do about 15% of the time.

[boonetown1]

I love the idea of keeping traditions, but in all seriousness, what real unique traditions do we have besides pointing to an end zone while Bugler's dream is being played? App State chant, holding up 4 fingers as we enter the 4th quarter (not unique), "Its an Appstate first down"(not unique). Not being a smart alleck and those on this board thst know me know I love this school and team, but if you go to other schools throughout the ACC, SEC, even other G5s, you see a lot of different real traditions. Maybe its a good time to blend some new in with the old. Forgot one tradition - drunk students in black and gold sliding down a beautifully manicured hill that gets destroyed by the end of the season.

To age myself. I used to love the tunnel shaking when the beginning of hells bell’s would ring out. That always got me hyped

Yes! Please bring that back

[bcoach]

Not one player’s participates in the buglers dream pointing any longer, it took half a season to kill a tradition. DL may be fine on the field longterm, but the small changes to the program off the field are starting to add up from a fan perspective.

Some schools are interested in tradition, we are not. We are into change. Not my choice but I didn't get a vote.

[AppSt94]

Giving the defense a pass is a weird take on what everyone witnessed yesterday.

I don’t get it either. We scored 37 points, but let a team averaging 14 points a game score 45 points. Perhaps there were specific times offense failed, but I’d say it was on 80% of the time while defense did what they were supposed to do about 15% of the time.

Neither defense was good yesterday. The difference is that our offense quit scoring.

[1ASU78]

Maybe I’m crazy, but I think Loggains has bigger fish to fry than to be worried about what songs the marching band plays.

Also, can everyone stop crying about the offense? They scored over 30 pts and turnovers weren’t an issue. That should’ve been enough to get the job done. The other side of the ball is the issue here.

But haven’t we spoken endlessly on this board about what makes App App? He’s the head guy. That’s what comes with it. He’s gotta handle all of it. This isn’t meant to be argumentative but as an alumni and fan for decades, it sucks a new guy comes in and suddenly the team isn’t doing what they were doing when I was a student. And we seem to flip flop weekly which unit is struggling.

I get traditions of pointing at an end zone, the band playing the dream, “Welcome to the Rock”, back in black, cheer leaders riding into the stadium on an old truck( old tradition) Yosef on a motorcycle, A REAL MOUNTAIN MAN YOSEF. Probably has very little to do with the team’s performance. But it might. Does it give them something to play for? More than a ring more than $? I know our guys aren’t rolling in it. It feels as though we’re giving up our identity little by little. Loose focus of the little things and next thing you know you’ve lost to chickens four years in a row.
I know our guys want to win, everyone does. But who do we want to win for? Traditions tie you to something, some where. It used to mean something to be a Mountaineer. I’m so very proud to be a Mountaineer. Our team and yes our coach must understand that being a Mountaineer at one time was special and needs to be special now.

[Seattleapp]

Maybe I’m crazy, but I think Loggains has bigger fish to fry than to be worried about what songs the marching band plays.

Also, can everyone stop crying about the offense? They scored over 30 pts and turnovers weren’t an issue. That should’ve been enough to get the job done. The other side of the ball is the issue here.

But haven’t we spoken endlessly on this board about what makes App App? He’s the head guy. That’s what comes with it. He’s gotta handle all of it. This isn’t meant to be argumentative but as an alumni and fan for decades, it sucks a new guy comes in and suddenly the team isn’t doing what they were doing when I was a student. And we seem to flip flop weekly which unit is struggling.

I get traditions of pointing at an end zone, the band playing the dream, “Welcome to the Rock”, back in black, cheer leaders riding into the stadium on an old truck( old tradition) Yosef on a motorcycle, A REAL MOUNTAIN MAN YOSEF. Probably has very little to do with the team’s performance. But it might. Does it give them something to play for? More than a ring more than $? I know our guys aren’t rolling in it. It feels as though we’re giving up our identity little by little. Loose focus of the little things and next thing you know you’ve lost to chickens four years in a row.
I know our guys want to win, everyone does. But who do we want to win for? Traditions tie you to something, some where. It used to mean something to be a Mountaineer. I’m so very proud to be a Mountaineer. Our team and yes our coach must understand that being a Mountaineer at one time was special and needs to be special now.

You articulated that very well and encapsulated my sentiments. I like everyone here is proud to be a Mountaineer. Obviously winning is what we all want, but the pageantry and game day atmospheres and traditions we’ve all participated and counted on for years are also part of what makes Boone so special. I really hope we aren’t losing all that to just be like so many other also ran programs out there that no could tell you anything about.

[Seattleapp]

Maybe I’m crazy, but I think Loggains has bigger fish to fry than to be worried about what songs the marching band plays.

Also, can everyone stop crying about the offense? They scored over 30 pts and turnovers weren’t an issue. That should’ve been enough to get the job done. The other side of the ball is the issue here.

But haven’t we spoken endlessly on this board about what makes App App? He’s the head guy. That’s what comes with it. He’s gotta handle all of it. This isn’t meant to be argumentative but as an alumni and fan for decades, it sucks a new guy comes in and suddenly the team isn’t doing what they were doing when I was a student. And we seem to flip flop weekly which unit is struggling.

I get traditions of pointing at an end zone, the band playing the dream, “Welcome to the Rock”, back in black, cheer leaders riding into the stadium on an old truck( old tradition) Yosef on a motorcycle, A REAL MOUNTAIN MAN YOSEF. Probably has very little to do with the team’s performance. But it might. Does it give them something to play for? More than a ring more than $? I know our guys aren’t rolling in it. It feels as though we’re giving up our identity little by little. Loose focus of the little things and next thing you know you’ve lost to chickens four years in a row.
I know our guys want to win, everyone does. But who do we want to win for? Traditions tie you to something, some where. It used to mean something to be a Mountaineer. I’m so very proud to be a Mountaineer. Our team and yes our coach must understand that being a Mountaineer at one time was special and needs to be special now.

You articulated that very well and encapsulated my sentiments. I like everyone here is proud to be a Mountaineer. Obviously winning is what we all want, but the pageantry and game day atmospheres and traditions we’ve all participated and counted on for years are also part of what makes Boone so special. I really hope we aren’t losing all that to just be like so many other also ran programs out there that no could tell you anything about. Drink was a quirky guy and winning cures a lot but they still felt like a traditional App team. I get the Jimmy and Joes argument. I really do . And DL may end up being a phenomenal coach here, but while we are transitioning, I don’t want to lose the other things that make App App.

[boonetodd]

Unless we get a defense with balls enough to hold a mediocre down-year Coastal team to under 40 points at homecoming, we’d better get used to being taunted and bullied on our own field. Beyond sad.

Absolutely. No one is scared to play us at home anymore. I mean why would they be.

[AppStFan1]

I have seen a few people complain about the play calling and I don't think you can blame Loggains for that. For example, inside the 5-yard line in the 4th we passed 3 straight times but that was because the OL was beat up and he did not have confidence we could pound it in. I really think you chalk that up to the dropped pass on that sequence. The defense has to be blamed mostly here. Injuries and not executing are hurting us right now but we still have to find a way.

Also, we did some stupid things on offense that I would guarantee our OL coach did not teach. There was a play where we had 3 OL blocking 2 defenders leaving a wide open gap for a pass rusher to hurry the QB and force an incompletion. In our last chance at the end the LT #72 just let the defender rip under him and get around to hit our QB and make him drop the ball. I could name a dozen more instances where Coastal just flat out whipped us and out smarted us.

I would encourage everyone to watch the coach's film and look at the end zone copy to see some of the mistakes our line made. We have to get a lot better up front.

Loggains said we need to learn how to win games and he is right. It is a shame because we should have won by 14 or so based on the first half.

[fjblair]

Unless we get a defense with balls enough to hold a mediocre down-year Coastal team to under 40 points at homecoming, we’d better get used to being taunted and bullied on our own field. Beyond sad.

Absolutely. No one is scared to play us at home anymore. I mean why would they be.

There was one point during the FCS heyday where we were like 50-5 at home, or something ridiculous like that.

[AppStFan1]

Unless we get a defense with balls enough to hold a mediocre down-year Coastal team to under 40 points at homecoming, we’d better get used to being taunted and bullied on our own field. Beyond sad.

Absolutely. No one is scared to play us at home anymore. I mean why would they be.

There was one point during the FCS heyday where we were like 50-5 at home, or something ridiculous like that.

Yup. We were once feared in Boone. I remember signs that would say In Boone you Play, Lose, and Go Home. That was very true. We can't let teams come up to Boone and plant their flags. We have to protect our house.