With all the success of the Wake Forest football team, it’s sometimes easy to forget that there is another school with yellow (or gold) and black that’s having a heckuva season.
That would be Appalachian State. It’s pretty unusual to have two teams in different divisions having outstanding seasons at the same time in the same media market. At times it has strained our hard-working sports staff. Try getting to Chattanooga. It’s one of those places that defies a straight shot. 1-AA isn’t the BCS, but the football is great, and the teams are from scrappy schools, where nothing is given away.
We’ll have three staffers at the game tonight. Win or lose, it’s a great story about a school and a team with a lot of heart. And if anybody has a photo of Chancellor Peacock (see our story today) giving a chest bump to an ASU fan, please forward it on.
Small world dept.: UMass is in Amherst, in central Mass., beyond the gravitational pull of Boston, which likes to call itself the Hub. The newspaper there is the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Talked to the Managing Editor there yesterday. He’s a friend of mine, named Larry Parnass. He used to be a business reporter here in the 1980s, but returned to rural Massachusetts and the tug of family. We have a friendly wager on the game…
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What a game. I’m only sorry that more of my friends in the Triangle didn’t watch it. Great fear of U. Mass after that first drive, but the Apps were masterful.
Thanks for the link to the Gazette. My only regret, Ken, is that you accepted that “friendly wager” on the ASU-UMass game. ... Meantime, a hearty hello to Otterblog readers ... and to my old friends and acquaintances in the Triad.
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