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[311neers]

If you moved sports to Hickory than the Boone campus would slowly die.

As far as the streaming goes, I wish we would step that up as a program. It wouldn't be all that expensive all things considered to invest in some hi def 4k etc cameras in lots of places around the field and allowing the online viewers to pick a camera angle to watch or watch up to 4 cameras at a time. Have them on center bar on the goal posts like the NFL. Angled from the 4 corners of the field. One on each side of the 50. Make something that gives more value to the streaming platform.

Agree with 4k, but my biggest gripe about the + broadcasts is the sound and lack of field level microphones. Cannot hear crowd, cannot hear band, cannot hear pads knocking. The entire atmosphere is missing from the broadcast. I can see it, but I cannot “Feel” it.

There is A noticeable difference when we are on the Mothership vs. the U and definitely the +.

Agree with all of this, but fix the sound system first, please. We have 1 speaker on the scoreboard and that scoreboard is 100+ yards away from most seats.

[AppinVA]

App is a big market team in a small market town. Granted that is what makes it appealing to us, it’s lacking in logistical appeal. It’s remote from any decent size airport. The town infrastructure isn’t quite set up to accommodate crowds that would come with the expansion of KBS. Not to mention available space to build additional resources such as parking, road widening and hotels. The only real viable space is up and that would be met with resistance from locals.

Unless, you sell your soul and move athletics to Hickory......

I wouldn't do it, but there are options there that you don't have in Boone.

Do that and I’d never attend another game.

Yeah. I didn’t go to UNC-Hickory.

[AppState89]

App is a big market team in a small market town. Granted that is what makes it appealing to us, it’s lacking in logistical appeal. It’s remote from any decent size airport. The town infrastructure isn’t quite set up to accommodate crowds that would come with the expansion of KBS. Not to mention available space to build additional resources such as parking, road widening and hotels. The only real viable space is up and that would be met with resistance from locals.

Unless, you sell your soul and move athletics to Hickory......

I wouldn't do it, but there are options there that you don't have in Boone.

Do that and I’d never attend another game.

Yeah. I didn’t go to UNC-Hickory.

Count me out too!! 1hr away from campus would be stupid and the town of Boone was lose their minds. All revenue to the local businesses would disappear over night.

[Yosef84]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

[AppWyo]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

[BambooRdApp]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

Winning one game does not make a rivalry

[AppWyo]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

Winning one game does not make a rivalry

Yes, rivalries need to be played every year to be true rivalries, each team needs to have a win and a loss every four years. That is why Georgia Southern and Appalachian is such a great rivalry. Georgia Southern has four wins in a row, but two of those wins were in the same season. Every player that has ever played for four years for either team since '93 knows the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat...

[BallantyneApp]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

It won’t be a rivalry after one game they win.

Yes UNCC has pretty ancient history in bbsll. A really nice Cinderella run in the 70:ms and a good run of tourney teams in the 90s. I think it’s around 30 years since their last tourney win and more than 20 since they last made the tournament.

Davidson has much more recent success

[Stonewall]

Cornbread Maxwell.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

You need to realize that at one time Duke was the football school to beat in the SoCon when Walace Wade was the coach, I mean they even played in the Rose Bowl.

hosted

[AppWyo]

You need to realize that at one time Duke was the football school to beat in the SoCon when Walace Wade was the coach, I mean they even played in the Rose Bowl.

hosted

They played Oregon State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game

[Mjohn1988]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

Ever time we have played UNCC the stadium atmosphere has said, this is a rivalry game.

[bcoach]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

Ever time we have played UNCC the stadium atmosphere has said, this is a rivalry game.

How many rivals can we have? Seems everyone is our rival all of a sudden.

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

You need to realize that at one time Duke was the football school to beat in the SoCon when Walace Wade was the coach, I mean they even played in the Rose Bowl.

hosted

They played Oregon State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game

in Durham so they hosted. Yes they played as host.

[WASU 93]

App is a big market team in a small market town. Granted that is what makes it appealing to us, it’s lacking in logistical appeal. It’s remote from any decent size airport. The town infrastructure isn’t quite set up to accommodate crowds that would come with the expansion of KBS. Not to mention available space to build additional resources such as parking, road widening and hotels. The only real viable space is up and that would be met with resistance from locals.

Unless, you sell your soul and move athletics to Hickory......

I wouldn't do it, but there are options there that you don't have in Boone.

Do that and I’d never attend another game.

I agree with you. But in today's sports world, you never know.

[Mjohn1988]

Charlotte is not a great example. Charlotte had no rivalries before. They are in their infancy as a program in grand scheme of things.

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

Ever time we have played UNCC the stadium atmosphere has said, this is a rivalry game.

How many rivals can we have? Seems everyone is our rival all of a sudden.

In our current conference we have 4 rival games, G. southern, JMU, Marshall and CCU. Schedule any other in state school and we will have 5 in a given year. We really are in a conference that can and should be really exciting for our fan base. I view our current conference situation as being somewhat similar to the old ACC in basketball, every game is a big game.

[bcoach]

I'm referring to their basketball program when it was booted from CUSA (for not having football).

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

Ever time we have played UNCC the stadium atmosphere has said, this is a rivalry game.

How many rivals can we have? Seems everyone is our rival all of a sudden.

In our current conference we have 4 rival games, G. southern, JMU, Marshall and CCU. Schedule any other in state school and we will have 5 in a given year. We really are in a conference that can and should be really exciting for our fan base. I view our current conference situation as being somewhat similar to the old ACC in basketball, every game is a big game.

Really?

[Stonewall]

I had a friend, gone now , who started at tackle for Duke in that Rose Bowl.

[AppWyo]

If App loses to UNCC in Football, that will create an instant rivalry. UNCC has had success in Basketball...

Ever time we have played UNCC the stadium atmosphere has said, this is a rivalry game.

How many rivals can we have? Seems everyone is our rival all of a sudden.

In our current conference we have 4 rival games, G. southern, JMU, Marshall and CCU. Schedule any other in state school and we will have 5 in a given year. We really are in a conference that can and should be really exciting for our fan base. I view our current conference situation as being somewhat similar to the old ACC in basketball, every game is a big game.

Really?

Actually, there are some people who just love to see Appalachian lose. We have won so much some hate App for it. One thing I have missed in the past or misjudged how much jealously plays into how people feel about other people. I mean the Coastal game did not mean that much until we lost to them, but what really hurt is that they became the darling of college football which was our thing after beating Michigan. When Coastal beat BYU we were dethroned.

Georgia Southern hated us a good five years before we even recognized them having a football team.

[BambooRdApp]

IMHO, we have one rival ..Stink.. period
Other games are important as they conference games. Not rivals to me.
UNCC not a rival...