WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

APPPPPPP!!!!!

Dawg headed to the rock, Apps roll 52 – 14!
Light em up Apps!

Later..

NOT A SELLOUT?! C’mon Apps! Damn being 6 hours away…

i bet a lot of people cant go to this b/c of next weeks game. i know my dad has to work this week in order to go to the Elon game. i wish i could be at the game this week, but i have to be a brother-on-law……

It looks like a sellout to me. Only tickets available last night were grass tickets. Appears to be the same this morning.

Does anyone know what actually constitutes a sellout at The Rock?

I AM INTERESTED IN GOING TO THE GAME. COMING IN FROM GREENSBORO. CAN TICKETS BE BOUGHT AT THE GATE OR HOW ELSE DO YOU GET THEM?

Well, I will be at The Rock…let’s go APP!

I think students can still get guest tickets. That’s why it’s not a sellout. The important thing is that the people who are there today won’t leave at halftime because their cold and wet. That is unless of course we go up by 40 points by then, which is a distinct possibility.

Finally a sunny day at the rock. I am sure the out come will be better than the last sunny day.

Guest tickets are sold out.

It should be rowdy then. I can’t wait for the APP! STATES!! and the thunderous rabble! rabble! rabbles! after yet another horrible call.

Any know if the game will viewable online?

Yeah, it is on goasuTV

GoASUTV gives a good pregame show fifteen minutes before game time.

McDuffie not in pads and in cast, uh-oh.

And we are underway!

7-0 APPS! The spanking of the year has officially begun…..

what’s the deal with jump TV? It seems like they broadcast using the Professor’s radio from Gilligan’s Island.

14-0. THEY………CANNOT……..STOP…….US!!!!!!!!

Is there anywhere on the internet to watch the game live online?

Well done, boys, well done!

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-ncaa-college-sports.php?w=81

21-0 take that UTC……

STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the link, appmaj. Looks great!

Despite the short drive, the defense does seem to be playing better. Some of the key plays in that drive, you just gotta hand it to UTC’s offense; just perfect execution.

OK, D-line is begining to look like crap.

First INT for AE in a while…
The D is playing great today…

Poor blocking.

We’re getting handled in the trenches, on both sides of the ball. That should be sobering.

21-7 at the half … AND the exodus has begun. /sigh

AppFan, are people really leaving?

Maybe they’re just at the concession stands…

This game is NOT over, not by a long stretch. I hope whoever we have playing center now can settle down and get the job done right.

Villanova leads Richmond 14-6 at the half.

freaking onsides……..

Good D. Line still looks a little shakey

Gutsy is right. That’s one way to keep AE off the field.

2 onside kick recoveries??? Unacceptable

He was on the track when he caught that?!?!?!

Great….here we go. C’mon D !!!

socon refs at it again…

Great tackle!

How can we make an official complaint regarding the officiating!!!! Something really stinks…. & its coming from the line judge….

Mocs O is very good at pick plays.

Mocs are having more success running the ball between the tackles than throwing that bubble screen.

I say make officiating complaints to the commissioner: jimarino@socon.org.

Thanks AppClass.. Going to email every day until I get a response!!!!

Pitifull coverage.

Man, Our DB’s are getting killed

He was WIDE OPEN…geezus D

I hope our ’special’ teams coach is working on his on-sides kick coverage.

We seem to have no defense at all against the slant route.

Ummm, guys, be ready for the ONSIDE KICK

Someone please wake our guys up!

It’s one thing to blow a 21 point lead to JMU on the road. This is just ridiculous. But you have to hand it to the Mocs coaches.

No. Blocking. At. All.

Our offense has NO sync

email no good..

I need John Iamarino: email address

& Chancellor Peacock’s email address

I’ve had enough of this …..

Another slant.

Can we defend a slant route?

It’s not the officiating. The refs have been no worse today than any other day. The problem is us. We aren’t executing and the other team is.

Is McDuffie that important?

Makes you wonder why they keep trying that screen.

Their O line owns our D line.

Our D is getting worked over

Carbine, I think they are setting up a double move off of the bubble screen, we will bite if they do

Someone make a play on D !!!

OMG what a spot

This looks bad.

They did pump the screen earlier and hit a wide out deeper, on their first scoring drive.

Offense had better wake up.

Villanova and Richmond now tied at 14.

O line gets beat again.

QB draw

Finally, a hole.

AE’s a stud.

And so’s D. Moore.

Riddle has to be druling right now. McDuffie better tape that finger up and get his butt out there next week.

God we’re awful at covering kicks.

PICK! Yeah, Baby!!!!

How is it the team can take two and a half quarters off and still win?

Stupid!

There is no excuse–ever–for kicking a kickoff out of bounds. Period.

Not pretty, but its a win…lets get things fixed for Elon

Agreed, Carbine! That chaps my ass more than anything! And we’ve done it repeatedly this year!

Do they realize we are up by 15? They are actually running

‘Special’ teams. Sheesh!

Not AE’s Best game…great way to hang in there and win

6:12 to go in the fourth, Richmond and Villanova still tied at 14.

Nooga’s coach did us a tremendous favor when he elected for that field goal on 4th down.

With 2:28 to go, Richmond scores a TD.

Remember how their QB was unsure of the play and let the playclock run down, and had to call a TO? Then, coming out of the TO they elected to kick. If they had just run the play without calling a time out they probably would have gotten the first down.

That’s right, Carbine. He was wanting a measurement and, quite frankly, I’m not sure why they didn’t measure it. SoCon officials at their finest….

Well, we’re gonna see what we’re made of next week – and I mean players, coaches, everybody.

Villanova scores, leads Richmond 21-20 with less than a minute to go.

ESPN Says that we had NO Penalties is that right. If so is it a first?

Richmond misses 35 yard field goal with 5 seconds to play, loses to Villanova 21-20.

what happened to mcduffie? will he be back next week? he really seems to be the missing link

Crap, hoping Richmond would pull it out

@Darian I know we had penalties but I’m assuming they mean accepted ones. Think all of ours were offset or declined.

Kind of glad to see Richmond take a L. Now lets hope our Mountaineers can prepare for next week. Kills me missing 2 games in a row.

McDuffie broke a finger against Furman & had it operated on this past week. They’re hopeful he plays next week. So am I. He certainly does make a huge difference.

thanks yosef83. he really does do something great. it seems that he is all over the field

Ir Richmond would have won, we would have jumped Villanova in the rankings. With a few of the CAA games left, and if we beat Elon, we would probablyu have gotten a top 4 seed in the playoffs; now that will be difficult

Random thoughts on a strange game:

UTC’s defense seems to be better than any conference foe we’ve faced so far. Still, to be up 21-0 and let them back in it….credit their coach; he found a way to stop Armanti–keep him off the field. Agree with Carbine or whoever said that he blew the decision on the FG, though. I understand it…got them to within a point and he trusted his D to stop us, but on the road looking for an upset, I think you go.

Clearly Armanti misses Coco. Seemed to be struggling all day with timing. Looked as if his hand might be bothering him, too.
Our O line seemed inconsistent, but maybe that’s owing to the UTC defense.

Play-calling: Cline is now the only possession receiver and it shows. Why did we wait so long to go to Quick?

After the picks, our defense lapsed into old habits–getting beaten on the short routes, slant-ins, etc., missing tackles.

Any win is a good one, I guess, but not what I was hoping for going into Elon.

At least couple hundred people left at halftime, with a steady stream exiting for the rest of the game. Loud crowd though.

Montana is in trouble, down 10-9 w 10 min to go to Idaho State

Looking ahead to Elon. We know we can beat them. Since they’ve been in the SoCon they’ve defeated every team in the conference except us. They’ve got the monkey on their backs and they have to figure out a way to get him off.

Possible top five match up against Eloan…we’ll see when the poles come out.

Way to go Apps on another win! Say what you will, the D really played pretty well. Our play calling was very similar to the first part of this season. Armanti was off a little, I think the two picks rattled him a bit…I think we get it together for the big game next week.

I hope a full week of practice without CoCo will get that offense a little more smooth. Radford did a good job on kickoff returns, though.

Riddle will not miss the open receivers like GS and Chatt did. This will be interesting.

Montana just pulled out a 12-10 win in the final seconds to a Idaho State team who was winless.

Nooga dropped at least 5 open passes which could have broken for big plays. Elon will not drop those types of passes, so the D needs to continue to tighen up (Ed Gainey was pretty weak today I thought). I also have not been impressed with Ben Jorden this year, although he made a nice catch today. He seems to have stone hands this year for the most part.

Radford is looking strong and I like him on returns as wells. I would like to see bigger plays out of Cadet.

We’ll be fine against Elon if our secondary is prepared.

Yep Montana lucked up. I just hope we defend the slant better or Riddle will throw for 600 yards Saturday.

I felt like once we got up 21 we eased up on both sides of the ball. I think our D feels like we will always score, so if they give up points it’s no biggy…well we were fortunate today. Thankfully Nooga kicked a FG on 4th and a mm or we may be licking our wounds with a Loss. We had our scare, so lets go win a ring at Elon.

Agree with some assessments above about offensive rhythm… a good week of work by AE and the receiving corps should help that. Despite the two interceptions and a couple of overthrown balls, AE and the passing game was still effective — though not as potent as previous weeks. If Jorden and Frye had caught excellent throws in the first and fourth quarters, respectively, AE would have had two TDs against those two INTs today.

Some of those rhythm issues can certainly be attributed to those turnovers and UTC keeping the offense off the field through special teams plays. Allowing two onside kick recoveries in a single game is absolutely unacceptable; ball protection must improve next week. The secondary must tighten coverage while still forcing turnovers or Riddle will make the day a long one.

naysayer,

armanti has a fractured wrist..happened in the gsu game…been playing through it

Folks, we can’t beat Elon playing like we did today. In fact, it won’t even be close. MUCH improvement is needed between now and Saturday.

Just got back from the game and my thoughts are …

Play like we did today and Eloan will beat us by 20 or more …

This was a weird game and maybe that is due to the coaching staff not knowing exactly who to play in place of COCO but man we looked like we reversed back to week 2 …

Had we been playing ELOAN tonight it would not have been pretty …

We can beat ELOAN if we play like we did against the stink but so far WE STILL HAVE NOT PLAYED A COMPLETE GAME …

look at our box score from tonight … 21 in the 1st qtr and 14 in the 4th qtr … that screams play calling and inconsistencies … now go look at ELOANs 7 14 14 7 that screams consistency and excellent play calling …

Lord help us is all I can say cause next week we are going to be in fight for our lives …

I feel the pressure already …

BTW THE FANS HAVE GOT TO GET BETTER … for those of us who are going to ELOAN … WE ARE GOING TO NEED TO BE OUR LOUDEST … it is time for us to STEP UP … our men will need us and we must leave it in the STANDS … WE HAVE GOT TO ROCK THAT PLACE in a bad way

I am SICK AND TIRED OF SEEING PEOPLE SIT ON DEFENSE THIS CRAP HAS GOT TO STOP

now I am done … and yes I will not make it to Saturday probably but I got tix and I will be the loud one wearing black and probably will lose my voice by the end of the 1st qtr …TIME TO STEP UP OR GO THE DAM* HOUSE

Our offense is not likely to be as potent without Coco. Today, the bulk of our passes were short ones to Cline. Quick caught 2, Jordan 2, Cadet 2, and Cline 7. Not having CoCo may be the difference next week at Elon.

ASU7, I agree with you.

I am SICK AND TIRED OF SEEING PEOPLE SIT ON DEFENSE THIS CRAP HAS GOT TO STOP.

Whats worse? Having the idiots behind you to ask you to sit down! Sometimes I feel like I am the only real fan outside of the student section.

ok…while Cadet is a huge playmaker, he doesn’t the hands to be a 3rd down/reliable receiver…watching the pre-game warmups, DeAndre Presley is the guy that we need in the game…his hands in insane and he’s a great atheletic that looks as if he can run great routes….

not having #18, McDuffie was a huge difference….#25, Reine just isn’t a great player…he’s small, out of position, and they other team’s target him on every passing play…

why in the heck didn’t the offensive coordinator’s get the ball into Quick’s hands?…the only 2 plays that we threw to him were when we NEEDED big plays, so why not consistently get him the ball????…makes no sense….

Overall, this was the worst offensive game of the year, and par performance for the defense…Our defense needs to finish a complete game and show that they are the real deal before we have a chance of winning a national championship…and hopefully we’ll see some Scott Riddle interceptions this upcoming week…..

yeah asuneers17 i agree. Reine really looks lost out there. mcduffie does so much more than him. hopefully mcduffie will be back at 100 percent next weekend. pressley could and should be an important aspect of our offense. that boy can fly and surely his hands are ok. i hope he can get more reps this week in practice. i cant wait till saturday

If we had to have one more of these, then it’s a good thing it came when it did. Go back, read my posts, I’m not a rah rah guy. I’m O.K. with today becasue they know how to correct it. They had done so for four straight weeks. And today, they rose up and fixed it IN game. Offense steped up and put 14 on the board in the fourth and the D did not allow them to keep pace from there. That is the sign of a maturing team. A good reminder that they have to stay focused, especially coming at the time of year that it did, IN A WIN, could be a great thing.
I’m sure there were some mental distractions from the injury as well. But, I felt it was actually a good win, not great.

You know, it’s probably been said before, but their were four very uncharacteristics plays in this game and two that you might see once every ten years, just not in person. Two Armanti picks. He’d thrown one in 7 previous games. That keeps our offense off the filed and gets out of rythm.
BUT THEN, TWO ONSIDE KICK RECOVERIES. TWO. BACK TO BACK. THATS THE SAME AS A TURN OVER. THAT’S FOUR TURNOVERS RIGHT THERE THAT KEPT OUR OFFENSE OFF THE FIELD MOST OF THE SECOND AND THIRD QUARTERS.
But, we got our MOJO back in the fourth when we finally got the damn ball.

Elon will the most balanced team we will have faced to date. If we don’t play with precision on offense we likely will be playing catch up throughout the game. Elon has also played a much more consistent game of defense than we have. Our advantage is that we have AE and we are more accustom to the big games. Quite frankly, and I may get ripped for this, but I would consider it a bit of an upset if we win next week. Based on looking at the play of both teams to this point.

I remain concerned that we aren’t going to be able to successfully replace the yards and catches that CoCo gets per game.

To beat Elon:
armanti play like armanti
D Moore needs to have a big game
D fense needs to be on like today
Offense has to get the ball to Quick and Jorden more. The word is out that Cline can play.

This game just got a lot harder.

Somebody explain to me how you lose CoCo and you throw to Quick less??? I dont understand the logic.

I agree ChAmPPs, I don’t think AE will throw more than 1 pick next week if he throws any at all and Elon doesn’t strike me as a desperate team willing to try onside kicks to beat us.

I would agree that we let up after going up 21-0 but even if we get there against Elon, i doubt that would happen again. Whether we like to admit it or not, our players are human and have their preconceived notions about all teams just like fans. I think they let up because UTC isn’t supposed to be very good and a lot of guys probably figured we’d coast at that point. I think everyone on this team realizes what Elon’s capable of and will respond as such.

I think they let up to keep the fans in the stands for longer. We have the worst football fans in the country as far as leaving the game early goes.

CoCo is good but his spot should not be hard to fill. QUick, Jordan, Cline, Presely, Cadet!
Armanti throws alot to CoCo because they are real good bud’s. Not because he had the best hands. The best hands on the team belong to Cline and Quick!

General Moore, I don’t think it’s fair to say that Armanti throws to Coco more because they are buds. After all, Armanti rooms with Brian Quick, doesn’t he? I don’t disagree that Coco didn’t have the best hands but maybe he got the ball more because he got open more?

It seems like Quick may not be sticking to his routes which is throwing Armanti off. I agree with Neers on the comment about Deandre. There was something we saw in him before the ECU game that is still there…we need to tap into his strengths. Cadet makes me nervous with his hands although he is a playmaker…I guess…we haven’t seen many huge plays from him yet.

I was hoping to see Cedric Baker a little more yesterday and what about Chisolm? However, Radford is stout and I’m glad he is playing well.

I am nervous as hell about our secondary next week. We really could get torched if we don’t buckle down. The key will be putting pressure on the QB, because our secondary just doesn’t seem all that talented. I think that will be one of the major keys to beating Elon.

I can’t even believe we are worried about Elon. It almost makes me sick as they are so beneath us in so many ways. There, I said what everyone is thinking.

In what ways are they beneath us?

In every way. We should be playing in CUSA right now instead of worrying about the Fighting Christians, the Phoenix Suns, or whatever the hell they call themselves these days. Every Elon alum I know is a prick.

IF we were playing in Conf USA, the game would be either tonight or Tuesday night–brought to you by Ambulance Chasers at Large and the one-volume Addiction Cure.

+1 naysayer.

And your point is…it’s better to leave at halftime because I’m a spoiled fat ass who has to get to Makoto’s before the line gets too long?

I must have missed something. How did leaving early (which I’ve never done) get into this? Never mind Makotos (where I’ve never eaten). I’d rather be in the SoCon and play on Saturday afternoon. If God had meant for college football to be played on Sunday night or Tuesday, he wouldn’t have invented the NFL and the NBA. Conf USA sold its soul to get a TV contract with second-line advertisers and third-string announcers (and yes I count Lou Holtz among them). In my opinion, our joining that fiasco would constitute a step down.

Come on naysayer, you and I know that we would love to play every Thursday night on ESPN.

Yeah, let’s start this crap arguement again. That’s exactly what everyone wants to read about.

ELON vs APP STATE
This is the conference game we have been waiting for all season. Glad we are both undefeated in conference play which makes it more thrilling. Both teams have to play their best. Do our players have the special something? Are they ready to go to the well and get the win?
You bet! Go Apps

# 58. #58. # 58. #58. #58. That’s the cat that hit Armanti late last year injuring him.
#58. #58. #58. #58. #58.

Why was ROD CHISLOM #4 not dressed out for Chattanooga game. Did not see him on the sidelines.