Socon 100th anniversary team

[moonshine]

Sorry if this was posted but didn’t see it. 32 former App players represented.

Harold Alexander, P, App State
All-America 1991, 1992

Pierre Banks, LB, App State
All-America 2007, 2008

Rick Beasley, WR, App State
SoCon Male Athlete of the Year 1979-80
1st-team All-SoCon 1978, 1979, 1980

Gill Beck, G/C, App State
1st-team All-SoCon 1975, 1976, 1977

Kerry Brown, G/OL, App State
All-America 2006, 2007
1st-team All-SoCon 2005, 2006, 2007

Shawn Clark, OG/T, App State
All-America 1996, 1998
1st-team All-SoCon 1995, 1996, 1998

Dexter Coakley, LB, App State
College Football Hall of Fame 2011
SoCon Hall of Fame 2011
Buck Buchanan Award 1995, 1996
All-America 1994, 1995, 1996
SoCon Male Athlete of the Year 1995-96, 1996-97
SoCon Defensive Player of the Year 1994, 1995, 1996
1st-team All-SoCon 1994, 1995, 1996

Armanti Edwards, QB, App State
SoCon Hall of Fame 2016
Walter Payton Award 2008, 2009
All-America 2007, 2008, 2009
SoCon Male Athlete of the Year 2009-10
SoCon Offensive Player of the Year 2008, 2009
1st-team All-SoCon 2006, 2008, 2009

Tyler Elkins, C, App State
All-America 2000, 2001

Jabari Fletcher, DL, App State
1st-team All-SoCon 2008, 2009, 2010

DaVon Fowlkes, WR/RS, App State
SoCon Male Athlete of the Year 2004-05
1st-team All-SoCon 2002, 2003, 2004

Cortez Gilbert, CB, App State
All-America 2008, 2009

Chad Groover, OL, App State
All-America 1995, 1996

Avery Hall, DL, App State
1st-team All-SoCon 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992

Corey Hall, DB, App State
All-America 1999, 2000

Jason Hunter, DL, App State
All-America 2005, 2006

Josh Jeffries, DL, App State
All-America 2000, 2001, 2002
1st-team All-SoCon 2000, 2001, 2002

Ben Jorden, TE, App State
1st-team All-SoCon 2008, 2009, 2010

Scott Kadlub, C, App State
All-America 1995, 1996

Jeremy Kimbrough, LB, App State
All-America 2011, 2012

Mark LeGree, DB, App State
All-America 2008, 2009, 2010
1st-team All-SoCon 2008, 2009, 2010

Corey Lynch, DB, App State
All-America 2005, 2006, 2007
1st-team All-SoCon 2005, 2006, 2007

Rico Mack, LB, App State
All-America 1990, 1991
1st-team All-SoCon 1990, 1991, 1992

Chad Miller, DL, App State
All-America 1994, 1995

Marques Murrell, DL, App State
All-America 2005, 2006
SoCon Male Athlete of the Year 2006-07
1st-team All-SoCon 2004, 2005, 2006

Joe Parker, P, App State
1st-team All-SoCon 1974, 1975, 1976

Kevin Richardson, RB, App State
All-America 2005, 2006, 2007
1st-team All-SoCon 2005, 2006, 2007

Jacque Roman, LB, App State
All-America 2008, 2009

John Settle, RB, App State
SoCon Male Athlete of the Year 1986-87
All-America 1985, 1986

D.J. Smith, LB, App State
All-America 2009, 2010

Matt Stevens, DB, App State
All-America 1994, 1995

Richie Williams, QB, App State
SoCon Male Athlete of the Year 2005-06 32 former App players represented.


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[Stonewall]

Running through the list brings back a flood of memories.

[NewApp]

Where is Dino Hackett?

[AppGrad1]

Sam Martin?

[JMappfan5]

Wow...what great memories!!!

[85gradinATL]

Beasley made it as a track athlete too. We had a lot of great ones there too, including our Olympic medalist Melissa Morrison.

[proasu89]

Shout out to my golf teammate Andrew Pitts for making the list. 1st team All Conference all 4 years.

[Bootsy]

Nearly 1/3 of the list wore the Black & Gold. What does that tell you?

#commitmenttoexcellence

[appgrad2010]

Donald Sims should be on the basketball list, hands down.

[AppStateNews]

Donald Sims should be on the basketball list, hands down.

Eh. Great guy and great scorer but couldn't play a lick of defense. IMO, that's what kept him out of the league.

[appgrad2010]

Eh, more than one thing stops numerous guys from making the NBA. Not sure if you know how difficult it is. I saw him play his whole college career.

[AppStateNews]

Eh, more than one thing stops numerous guys from making the NBA. Not sure if you know how difficult it is. I saw him play his whole college career.

I did too. And I can't count on one hand the number of times I remember him actually hustling on defense. If he was screened at the top, his guy was scoring because he wasn't going to fight through it.

Again, great guy and a great scorer. But you need to be able to play defense if you want to be on this kind of list.

He also got shafted by the coaching change and Cobb calling him out by name saying they wanted Capel over Matt (which wasn't anywhere near the truth).

[TheMoody1]

Donald Sims should be on the basketball list, hands down.

I wish he could come teach the team how to shoot free throws.

[NewApp]

Donald Sims should be on the basketball list, hands down.

I wish he could come teach the team how to shoot free throws.

Anecdote. They didn't list Joe Parker as being a Playboy All-American (which he actually was).
Too, did Mary Jane Harrelson make any of the lists for T&F? I knew her uncle very well.