It's Hot Out There

From a recruiting standpoint, you are right! I love the Tigers on TV anytime. But, I am not a season ticket holder…

For all those that complain about the heat…you just need to drink more Bourbon…you won’t feel it as much…

Geaux Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Night game = best thing ever in baton rouge. No way around that. Although I agree with you that being on tv is better than not, it seems like it barely applies to LSU these days, as practically every game we play is on some sort of semi-national broadcast.

As an Appalachian fan, the move to the 4 p.m. slot is crucial for our Carolina fan base to be able to watch the game as seat availability was limited to the school. However, I’ll be the first to acknowledge imitating the heat of Baton Rouge in the Blue Ridge Mountains for training purposes will be difficult.

Richard: The reason this is a nationally televised event is because both our teams have proven their worth on the field. Without App, LSU plays another sub-par team for a season warm-up on local coverage. Same applies to us. Without LSU, App doesn’t get national attention until it’s rivalry game in October. Just trying to set the record straight.

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I respectfully ask that y’all not refer to my alma marta as Appy St. ASU, App or App St would be appriciated. Heck, even The University of North Carolina at Tweetsie would be prefferable. I for one, hate the term Appy St. and would happily hog tie any announcer that used it.

On a related note. As good fellow southerners, I’m sure y’all know how to pronounce Appalachian. So, for any of your northern imigrants that are now Tiger fans, it is pronounced App-uh-LATCH-un.

Here’s to a great game between two great universities. Go APP!!!

Time for a history lesson. Im a 1977 ASU grad. In 1975 ASU played and defeated South Carolina, Wake Forest and East Carolina. In subsequent years until the late 1980’s were were mediocre at best. In 1989 we got a coach named Jerry Moore who has led us on a mission to reinvent ASU football and return it to its mid 1970’s glory and an eventual return to FBS level football. We are there. Last year and the fact that North Carolina, Florida State, Wake Forest, among others refuse to play us give evidence to the fact that ASU is one of the better football teams in the country . Were it not for the NCAA moratorium on FCS teams moving up to FBS we would be transitioning now.

It will do you no good to downplay us as a “sub par team” If you do then good luck on Aug 30, ‘cause you are going to need it.

App77,

I don’t think Richard sees it that way. I think he meant that the casual observer would see ASU as such absent the Michigan win. I really can’t imagine a true college football fan not respecting the accomplishments that our school has achieved. I’m certain that the ASU football program has the respect of every coaching staff in the country FCS or FBS.