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Jan. 19, 2017

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FREE LEGAL ADVICE The Student Legal Clinic, in suite 324 in Plemmons Student Union, offers confidential advice, information, and referrals provided by a licensed attorney.

The attorney can meet with any currently enrolled Appalachian State student and can advise students on any issue that is not directly adverse to the university.

Make an appointment by calling (828) 2628284. More information at legalclinic.appstate. edu.

To sign-up to participate in a Domestic ASE, students should attend Spring Domestic Lottery on Jan. 30 in Blue Ridge Ballroom (PSU 201) at 8 p.m.

W.H. PLEMMONS MEDALLION NOMINATIONS The W. H. Plemmons Leadership Medallion, named in honor of Dr. William H. Plemmons who served as the second president of the University from 1955-69, was established by an action of the Appalachian State University Board of Trustees in 1996. The award was created to recognize the time, energy, skills, and commitment of students, faculty, student development educators and staff who exceed their peers in providing leadership that enriches the quality of student life and advances the education of students.

Nominations for this award will be accepted through Friday, Feb. 17 by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Development.

Nominations can be submitted electronically at https://plemmonsmedallion.appstate.edu/

PROJECT CONDOM FASHION SHOW

At Appalachian State University we have a unique service program called Alternative Service Experience, where students spend their spring breaks doing service alongside a community!

We are excited to offer the following 17 Domestic ASEs over spring break this year!

Information about each of the programs can be found at ase.appstate.edu

Wellness and Prevention Services and Appalachian Popular Programming Society Presents our first annual Project Condom Fashion Show!

Sponsored by Global Protection and ONE condoms, Project Condom is a merge between art and fashion and the promotion of safer sex for college-aged students. Based on the tv show Project Runway, teams of students will have to opportunity to create and showcase garments made entirely of condoms! This year’s theme is “Project Condom: Past, Present, and Future.”

The show will be held on March 8 at 7 p.m. in Parkway Ballroom.

If your club/organization is interested in par-

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ticipating in this year’s show, please complete the team registration form. Registration will close on Feb. 3 at 11:55 p.m.

Contact Saray Smalls, wellness coordinator for Student Programs, at smallsts@appstate.edu for additional questions.

STUDY ABROAD The Education Abroad Office is still accepting applications for 2017 Appalachian Faculty-Led programs as well as Summer/Fall/ Academic Year partner programs. For more information about program options, deadlines, and how to get started please visit the Education Abroad web page at https://international. appstate.edu/education-abroad.

MINDFULNESS RETREAT Come experience a half day mindfulness retreat. Learn skills that can help relieve stress, get you better sleep and help you experience less self-judgment. This will be a silent retreat where you will learn various different forms of meditation, eat mindfully and participate in basic yoga. Please bring a yoga mat or towel with you for yoga.

All levels are welcome. No prior experience in meditation is needed. Extra credit slips will be provided. The event will be Sunday, Jan. 29 from 1-5 p.m. in Blue Ridge Ballroom, PSU.

en a service challenge to be completed by day’s end. These challenges involve everything from maintenance and cleaning to new construction.

They provide students an opportunity to serve alongside people in the community and to make a meaningful difference to organizations in the area. The event concludes at 6 p.m.

Contact the ACT Outreach Center at (828) 262-2193 for questions.

PUBLIC LECTURE Archaeologists have debated the nature and pace of social, political, economic, and religious transformations associated with emergence of agriculture and village life for decades.

Research in the Near East and Europe has revealed that these processes unfolded across several millennia, and that their effects continue to shape the world we live in today -- some identify the “Neolithic revolution” as the beginning of the Anthropocene. In this talk, I consider if and how the archaeological record of Southeastern North America tells a similar story about Neolithization, drawing recent findings of the Pinson Environment and Archaeology Regional Landscapes (PEARL) Project in Tennessee.

Students are especially encouraged to attend if they are interested in attending the App State/ PEARL field school in June.

The lecture will take place Wednesday, Jan. 25 noon-1 p.m. in room 336 of Anne Belk Hall.

MLK CHALLENGE This event will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with a day devoted to service to the greater Boone community. It is sponsored by the ACT Office. ACT stands for Appalachian & the Community Together.

Students will gather at Legends at 8 a.m.

They will be split into teams and assigned a faculty or staff “site leader” before being giv-

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BACK AT IT

he first version of this letter I drafted was a feckless PR statement playing up our successes over the past year and extending a cheesy welcome back to readers. Here’s a taste:

“In 2016 we also made changes to how we operate to create a more futureproof model as we become more web-focused.”

That is just awful.

I drooled out a collection of those short, journalism style paragraphs with the most insipid tone I could muster before I decided that wasn’t going to fly and axed the letter.

The highlights from that as follows: In 2016 we won a Pacemaker from the Associated Collegiate Press, a major national award, made some good changes to how we run, our readership expanded, we got some shiny new newsstands and, most importantly, we made a video about tasting pumpkin flavored items.

A lot of people were not a fan of 2016, but it was a solid year for us as a publication.

I would now like to speak bluntly about a couple things most people don’t know about us.

We are run by students. We have an adviser, but everything we do is reported, written, shot, edited, laid out and designed by students. No one but us gets to look at what we do before we publish.

This semester we are focusing on fixing our old, print-oriented production schedule to make it work better with our digital content, where most of our readership and awards come from.

Digital has been so successful for us, and is so undeniably the endgame for media that we are running in that direction as fast as I feel is responsible.

I have some other goals for this place beyond the future of the medium. This semester we’re going to try to be more conversational with the people who read us. That means trying to get more guest opinions and letters sent in, making a better effort to follow a story past when we first publish, putting out stories faster than ever and making more stupid videos about tasting food.

I know The Appalachian means more to the people that work on staff and myself than most people on campus, but we try to be a resource for you to learn about things going on at this school you wouldn’t hear about otherwise, so we hope we can at least fulfill that for the people that read us.

If you are a dedicated reader, we all genuinely appreciate it.

If you ever want to give us feedback, submit a story idea, letter, or inquire about writing an op-ed, feel free to check out those pages on our website: http://theappalachianonline.com/ Carl Blankenship (Editor-In-Chief)

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Jan. 19, 2017

UBER COMES TO BOONE SAMMY HANF NEWS EDITOR

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tarting Jan. 16 the ride

sharing platform Uber will be available for use by Boone residents.

“We’re excited to bring safe, reliable transportation options and flexible work opportunities to Boone, North Carolina,” said Michael Black, general manager for Uber in North Carolina. “Uber is committed to working with the Boone community to help make the city more accessible and better connected with access to a ride in minutes at the touch of button.”

Boone currently has a more informal ride sharing service, called beeping, that connects riders and drivers through a Facebook group and costs between $2 to $4 on an individual basis.

Beeping has less stringent safety standards. The only requirement to be a driver is membership in the Facebook group, which is private and requires approval to join.

Last September, a beeper driver named Samuel Wayne Grubbs was charged with sexual battery after a ride.

Uber said on their website that their safety protections include being able to see information about their drivers, GPS tracking for the entire ride and providing

Graphic Credits: Sydney Spann

A map showing Uber’s new locations in Boone. feedback on riders and drivers though the app.

Carrie Gold, moderator of the beeper group, said that while she feels Uber is generally safer and more reliable, she will be keeping the group active due to popular demand.

A poll on the beeper page had 207 respondents indicate they would forego using Uber for beeping and 51 indicating they will likely use both, while 13

respondents indicated a strong preference for Uber. The Facebook page has 16,902 members.

Gold said she feels that much of the support for the beeper group is coming largely from a vocal minority, mainly drivers, that want to keep the service alive because of its uniqueness to Boone.

“Boone is sort of like a progressive place where people want to keep things local, you don’t want the capitalist cor-

porate overlords coming into little Boone and taking over it.”

Gold said she was already looking to find a replacement moderator for the group but feels that interest in beeping will die down as newer students will likely gravitate toward Uber.

Uber will be offering a promotional code for first time users, giving them their first ride free if they enter the promo code BOONE at checkout.

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Jan. 19, 2017

OPEN MIC NIGHT IN BOONE

Melanie Lech on stage for Open Mic Night. The event was put on by Crossroads in the Plemmons Student Union.

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t the end of a song, Crossroads

customers erupt into an applause of appreciation towards the previous performer. Simultaneously at 3rd Place, observers snap in appreciation of a phrase the spoken word poet just said.

At Crossroads in Plemmons Student Union, people sit down to watch people perform their original and cover songs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Performers can sign up the Monday before outside of Crossroads or when they arrive at the coffee shop. Typically, only a few people perform, allowing singers to perform multiple songs.

Sophomore graphic design major Sam Helms has performed there regularly for a year. He started performing at open mic nights in high school after his band broke up, and continued once he arrived in Boone. Performing is one of his favorite parts about music.

“It’s fun for me,” Helms said. “I

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really like getting myself out there and letting people give feedback on my stuff that I make.”

Helms did not always perform in Crossroads. He went to Bald Guy Brew a couple of times, but did not like it as much because the main focus of that open mic night was spoken word.

“I prefer the Crossroads [open mic] because the Bald Guy one was a lot of poetry and did not have much music,” Helms said.

Helms has performed a wide variety of songs over the year that he has participated in open mic. He describes the music that he likes to play as “folksy” and said that many of the songs he writes are about love and relationships.

Helms believes open mic has served as a good tool for him to show his work to a different audience.

“It gives the students an easy way to get their stuff out there and get their talents out there and help them learn and grow from it,” Helms said.

For people who are thinking about participating in open mic night, Helms suggests that they take a chance and perform.

“I’m always nervous before I play,” Helms said. “Once you finish doing it, you’re very proud of yourself.”

Helms also believes that open mic night is a good event to just watch.

“I just encourage everyone to go and support [open mic night] even if you don’t play,” Helms said. “Just go watch and listen and learn.”

Rebecca Fuller, a junior biology major, went to open mic night in the beginning of the school year to support her friend performing.

“I loved it,” Fuller said. “I think it’s a good way to support the local artists.”

Fuller wants to go more in the future and thinks that it also is a good resource for artists to try new work in a very calm, low pressure setting.

For people who want to listen to spoken word poetry, Lyric, Appala-

chian State’s spoken word poetry club, hosts an open mic night at 3rd Place on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m.

Sophomore physics major Brandon Schwartz is the co-president of Lyric, and is one of 3rd Place’s regular performers. In high school, Schwartz enjoyed performing in theater programs. When he arrived at Appalachian State University, one of his friends convinced him to go to an interest meeting for Lyric. He said he hated the first poem that he wrote, but continued to write, liking each poem more than the previous.

“It was honestly like free therapy,” Schwartz said. “Freshman year is a real hard time. It was a way that I could get heard and get my voice out there.”

Open mic night also provided him with a social outlet that he could share his work with and also do things outside of writing with.

“I met a lot of cool friends and cool people through it,” Schwartz said.

“We’re a good community, really sup-

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portive.”

At the open mic night at 3rd Place, participants are able to sign up when they arrive. Performers usually only are able to present one piece due to the large number of people who want to share their work. This year, they have had an average of 40 to 50 people come out to open mic night, about 20 of which are poets and the occasional comedian or rapper. A different member of Lyric hosts it every week.

“We had a girl read the setlist to the new Gucci Mane album and then we had a girl who wrote about her first love and all of that,” Schwartz said.

Schwartz said anyone can do anything they want and not feel judged, but supported for what they want to write and what they want to put out there.

Schwartz described his work as being intrinsic. He said he has a difficult time writing from other people’s points of view and likes to use things that have happened to him and portray his reaction. Some things he has written about in the past are his transition to college, his height and social anxiety.

“Snaps are my favorite thing in the world,” Schwartz said. “It’s enthralling.

I’m a performer, when I get on stage, I really like giving people a show and an

Photo Credit: Emory Kumpe

Melanie Lech and Alex Cobb performing on stage for Open Mic Night. The event was put on by Crossroads, the coffee shop located in Plemmons Student Union. experience.”

Schwartz believes open mic night is good for the Boone community because

it provides people with a structured way to express themselves.

“Everyone is so nice,” Schwartz

said. “If you come out to our open mic nights, everyone is the most supportive, loving people.”

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WHAT IS CONTRA DANCING? I

People dancing at a 12 hour contra dance called Boonedoggle. The event was hosted by the Boone Contra Dancers on Oct. 8.

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t’s not uncommon for

Appalachian State’s Legends to be filled with people dancing.

However, on certain Friday nights, the usual mob of people dancing to a band on stage is replaced by a different scene. Instead, a small string band sits at one end of the dance floor, and a caller directs long lines of dancers as they coordinate their moves and swing their partners.

These Friday nights at Legends are for contra dances, and they occur about once a month throughout the school year. The dances are hosted by the Appalachian Heritage council, which is part of the Appalachian Popular Programming Society.

Mallory Vannoy, chairperson of the Appalachian Heritage Council and senior hospitality and tourism management major, said that contra dancing is somewhat of a combination of square dancing and line dancing. Long lines composed of groups of four stretch down the dance floor. Each dancer has a partner, and as the dance progresses, the partners make their way down the line, dancing with other pairs along the way.

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A contra dance will have a live band, which usually plays Appalachian oldtime music, and a caller. Each individual dance is slightly different. The caller typically runs through the moves before the dance begins, and then calls out each move as they happen during the dance.

“I was extremely intimidated the first time I went to a dance,” said Jonathan Brechbiel, a freshman communication studies major. “But I had a lot of fun.

Everyone kind of helps you out with it, like there’s no shaming you if you mess up, even if you’re not good at dancing.”

Besides the dances at Legends, there are a number of regular contra dances throughout the High Country. The Boone Contra Dancers, a community group, hosts monthly dances at the Apple Barn in Valle Crucis for most of the year, and at the Old Cove Creek School Gym in Sugar Grove during the winter months.

The regular Boone contra community, which includes both community members and App State students, attends both the Legends and the Apple Barn dances, Vannoy said. A large number of beginners attend the dances at Legends, but beginners are welcome at all dances.

“I feel like there are more experienced people at the other dances, so it’s almost easier to be a beginner there, because the other people can teach you,” Vannoy said. “It is intimidating sometimes to be a beginner with all the experienced dancers, but they’re very helpful and willing to teach you.”

There are also some special dances throughout the year, such as Boonedoggle, a 12-hour contra dance which was hosted by the Boone Contra Dancers on Oct. 8, and a Costume Contra at Legends the Friday before Halloween.

The Appalachian Heritage Council also usually hosts Rushfest, a contra dance set to music performed by a DJ, in the spring semester.

“Theming the contra dances always seems to go well,” Vannoy said. “The Costume Contra always brings a lot of students. There were a ridiculous amount of beginners there.”

The Appalachian Heritage Council exists to bring events to campus that are traditional to the Appalachian region.

The council also hosts the annual Old Time Fiddlers Convention, which draws in people from all over North Carolina

and neighboring states, in the spring semester, as well as Heritage Week in the fall.

“Although contra dances aren’t super traditional – square dances are a lot more traditional than contra dances – there’s a demand for contras,” Vannoy said. “And we’ve got a good system for bringing contra dances, and people keep coming to them.”

The dances are also good exercise and require a lot of focus, Brechbiel said, and are a fun, unique way to spend an evening, especially for college students.

Contra dances also offer an opportunity for students to meet new people, Vannoy said. They are very social dances, so dancers get to interact with a lot of different people throughout the night.

“It’s like social and physical at the same time,” Marshall Earley, a freshman sustainable development major, said. “You get to meet people while also getting exercise.”

Vannoy said contra community is really welcoming of different groups of people, and they’re really welcoming to everyone trying to learn to dance.

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Jan. 19, 2017

(Top) Junior Brandon Pinckney, freshman Clifton Duck, junior A.J. Howard and senior Mondo Williams, all defensive backs, celebrate the win of the Camellia Bowl against Toledo in Montgomery, Alabama. (Bottom) The defensive players during the game against UL Monroe. The Mountaineers defeated UL Monroe with a final score of 42-17.

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backer Kennan Gilchrist knocked the ball loose in overtime out of Tennessee quarterback Josh Dobbs’ hands in the Mountaineers first game of the season on a Thursday night and it was almost a hit heard around the college football world.

Except it wasn’t. Vols running back Jalen Hurd jumped on top of the ball in the end zone for a touchdown recovery and ranked Tennessee held off a huge upset from the Mountaineers.

The Mountaineers were 0-1 and fans questioned many play calls throughout a game that could have ranked right behind App State’s 2007 victory over Michigan had App pulled out the upset. But it was just the start for a record-breaking season that concluded with back-to-back Camellia Bowl wins, back-to-back double digit win seasons and the first ever Sun Belt conference championship for the Apps.

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“When we set out this season, our goals were to number one win the Sun Belt, number two to get to a bowl and win the bowl,” head coach Scott Satterfield said. “We pretty much did everything we set out to do this year. It was unbelievable.”

While the Tennessee game stands out as one of the Mountaineers best defensive performances of the season, App State fans entered the season with Miami on their mind. For the first time in school history, a Power Five team would play in Boone. Yet, it was a big disappointment.

The Hurricanes crushed App 45-10 and senior running back Marcus Cox suffered an injury that kept him out the next four weeks of the season.

A crushing loss can cause some teams to crumble, but the game against Miami would be the last poor performance by the Mountaineers in 2016.

Sophomore running back Jalin Moore

more than excelled filling in for Cox. Moore rushed for the sixth highest single games in App history the following week, with 257 rushing yards and rushed for 100 or more yards in eight of the next 10 games, finishing as the team’s leading rusher with 1,402 rushing yards.

Cox returned against Georgia Southern and had one of the most memorable moments of the season against ULM in the final home game of the season when he broke the all-time rushing record to become App’s all-time leading rusher.

Cox followed it up in the Camellia Bowl becoming the 16th player in FBS history to rush for over 5,000 yards in his career.

“When you get here everyone wants to be the best but you don’t actually think it will happen until it happens,” Cox said after his record breaking game against ULM. “It has been a long journey and our first couple of years were rough but to win my last game at The

Rock the way we did and accomplish the record here will always be special to me and I will never forget it.”

While records were being broken on the offensive side of the ball, defensively App held their first five conference opponents to only two offensive touchdowns to build their post-Miami win streak to six games. In the midst of the win streak, App State beat rival Georgia Southern 34-10, the largest victory at Paulson Stadium for App. The Apps allowed only 10 total touchdowns to Sun Belt opponents all season, with four coming against Troy.

They allowed only three in the first half of games.

Junior wide receiver Shaedon Meadors broke out with 126 receiving yards against the Eagles, including that week's NCAA catch of the week and finalist for catch of the year when he hauled in a 30-yard catch with a defend-

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Junior quarterback Taylor Lamb leads the offensive play by running the ball down the field during game against Tennessee on Sept. 1. The Mountaineers lost the away game in overtime with the final score being 20-13. yards against the Eagles, including that week's NCAA catch of the week and finalist for catch of the year when he hauled in a 30-yard catch with a defender on him setting up for an App touchdown.

Meadors' game started a run for the Mountaineers wide outs that struggled to get anything going with junior quarterback Taylor Lamb through the season’s first half.

But the focus all season was on App State’s secondary, also referred to as “The Legion of Boone” or “LOB.” Led by freshman Clifton Duck with five interceptions, senior Mondo Williams with four and safety A.J. Howard, the Legion of Boone finished the season with 20 total interceptions to rank tied for sixth in the nation.

The Mountaineers finished first in the Sun Belt and ninth in the nation in scoring defense.

Gilchrist, senior John Law, junior Eric Boggs and junior Devan Stringer led the team in tackles with 89, 57, 98 and 71 respectively, ranking App 17th in the nation and first in the conference in total defense.

Named the pre-season Sun Belt defensive player of the year, Law finished his exceptional collegiate career with a SoCon championship, Sun Belt Championship and two Camellia Bowls to be remembered as one of the best Mountaineers all-time.

Photo Credit: Halle Keighton

“We always talk about in our program how are you going to finish and what are you going to be remembered for. Well this is what John Law is going to be remembered for,” Satterfield said after Law’s performance in the Camellia Bowl. “He wanted to lay it all out there and he did tonight. I’m so proud of John. I love him, his family and what he stands for. He’s a guy that’s got the three rings. What a great leader for our program.”

The Mountaineers kept winning, but so did conference rival Troy, setting up a week 10 showdown between undefeated Sun Belt teams. The game was expected to be a battle, and it was.

Troy built a two-score lead early before Howard had a memorable “strip six” to return the ball for a 71-yard touchdown and putting the Apps back in the game.

Ultimately, the Mountaineers lost 28-24 and the goal of winning the Sun Belt conference championship looked gloomy for App. Over the final three weeks of the season, Troy fell to Arkansas State and Georgia Southern, and App won their final two games, giving App a share of the Sun Belt title with Arkansas State.

Satterfield had high praise for his team’s season. “They believe in each other. Our whole motto this year on our bracelets is we ride together. Everything that we do, we do together. Whether

we win or we lose, we’re going to do it together.”

The Mountaineers once again continued to show that they are one of the best teams to transition from the FCS to the FBS, now holding a 27-5 record over their last 32 games, ranking fourth in the nation. The only losses have come against Clemson, Tennessee, Miami, Troy and Arkansas State.

“From our chancellor, to our athletic director, to our coaches, all the way down through. We all pull in the same direction. You can’t have success like we’ve had if you don’t do that,” Satterfield said after the Camellia Bowl.

“We don’t have any egos. People want to know why we’ve been so successful.

That’s why. I’m so proud of this group and this organization.

App faced Toledo in the Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama, a place they have become all too familiar with the last two years and pulled out a 3128 win behind an MVP performance from Lamb, a 94-yard kickoff return touchdown from freshman Darrynton Evans and a late field goal from redshirt freshman Michael Rubino.

Rubino started the season missing a game-winning field goal against Tennessee and finished it with one of the biggest plays of the season.

“It is big knowing my coaches have that kind of confidence in me and big for me for my confidence to be comfortable

out there,” Rubino said. “I hope to build off of this second half momentum.”

Six players this season were honored with Sun Belt weekly awards.

Cox earned offensive player of the week twice and Moore once. Duck and Gilchrist earned defensive player of the week and Critcher earned a special teams player of the week.

In addition, Moore earned Sun Belt offensive player of the year and Duck earned freshman of the year. Duck also received USA Today Freshman All-American honors. Five Mountaineers made Sun Belt first team all-conference teams and seven to second team all-conference.

An unpredictable 10-3 overall and 7-1 Sun Belt season finished in a sensational way for the Mountaineers, and with two power five teams on the schedule next season, the Apps will only look for more success.

“Our defense is going to be outstanding next year. We got our running back.

We got our quarterback. All our receivers are back except for Jaquil. We’re going to be really good again next year," Satterfield said after the Camellia Bowl.

“This right here is going to snowball into recruiting. It’s going to continue to snowball and we’re going to bring in some great student athletes in this next class and have a great offseason and we can’t wait for Georgia. That’s our first game next year. We’re excited about it.”

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Jan. 19, 2017

APP STATE WRESTLING HAVING NOTEWORTHY SEASON

Denzel Dejournette keeps David Henry from Oregon State University on the defensive, taking him down mid-match.

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program that has arguably fallen under the radar is now accelerating into the new year determined to continue their hot start.

Entering the new year with a 10-2 and 4-0 SoCon record, the App State wrestling team has consistently positioned itself inside or near the top 25 all season long.

On Jan. 17, the Apps reached a program best in the polls, ranking 16th in the InterMat duals rankings. Picking up win in 19 of their last 23 dual meets.

After a conference match victory over Clarion and The Citadel on Jan. 8, the Mountaineers find themselves only three matches away from a perfect record against conference opponents. While a perfect record in conference would be impressive, the Mountaineers can be especially proud of the result they pulled out in only their third dual match of the season.

Pulling out 25-11 victory, the Apps knocked off ranked Duke for the second straight season. The win over the Blue Devils also gave App State their third win over a Power Five school on the season, which is the first time the Mountaineers have achieved that since at least 1990-91 when year-by-year results were first recorded.

The Mountaineers have defeated Power Five UNC and Oregon State in addition to Duke.

Excelling as a team so far this season, many wrestlers have left their mark on the mat. Currently, sophomore Matt Zovistoski and senior Denzel Dejournette have both found themselves inside the top 20 in InterMat rankings in their respective weight classes.

Coming off a 31-4 overall record a season ago, Dejournette, a heavyweight,

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is ranked 12th in InterMat rankings, and the senior has only continued that dominance into this season.

With recent wins over wrestlers from The Citadel and Clarion, his overall career record at App State was escalated to an incredible 122-39. Adding two more victories in dual competition, Dejournette buoyed his record in those competitions to 9-1 this season.

While the senior has received many accolades in his time with the Black and Gold, other wrestlers have had stellar seasons of their own. Winning his match

against Clarion, Zovistoski boosted his record on the season to 20-7, which helped him to his No. 15 ranking in the InterMat rankings.

Within the past month, two other wrestlers have received SoCon Wrestler of the Week honors. Freshman Colby Smith and senior Vito Pasone both pulled off impressive weeks to earn the title.

Pasone earned the honor on Dec. 21 after going 2-1 against top 15 wrestlers, which helped the Mountaineers gain wins over two conference opponents.

Smith picked up the honor with wins

over The Citadel and Clarion, pushing his season record to 20-7.

As the season finishes up, the Mountaineers look to capture back-to-back SoCon championships. Conference opponents Chattanooga and Gardner-Webb remain on the Mountaineer schedule, both of whom are also undefeated in conference.

Accomplishing many program bests so far this season, the Mountaineers look well on their way to gain more accolades, and with that, more attention pointed in their direction.

Denzel Dejournette is currently ranked 16th and sports a 9-1 dual meet record

Photo Credit: Matt Sloyer

Jan. 19, 2017

CAMELLIA BOWL

Appalachian State football head coach Scott Satterfield receiving the Camellia Bowl trophy. The game was against Toledo in Montgomery, Alabama and the Mountaineers won the bowl game 31-28.

Mountaineer football players holding the celebratory banner for the Camellia Bowl.

The players and cheerleaders running out onto the field to start the game against Toledo at the Camellia Bowl.

Senior inside linebacker John Law celebrating the win against Toledo at the Camellia Bowl.

Junior quarterback Taylor Lamb with his mother Allyson Lamb after the win against Toledo at the Camellia Bowl.

Photo Credit: Halle Keighton and Braxton Critcher

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Jan, 19, 2017

GOODBYE MARCUS J

Senior running back Marcus Cox finished his career as App State's all-time leading rusher MATT KROMBACH SPORTS REPORTER

ust over four years

ago, a two-star recruit running back named Marcus Cox stepped onto the turf of Kidd-Brewer Stadium as the Appalachian State Mountaineers remained in the FCS for only one more season.

Transitioning to the Sun Belt from the Southern Conference wouldn’t intimidate Cox, who continued his historic run into Appalachian State history. Now, Cox is Appalachian State’s all-time leading rusher with his college career behind him and has accepted an invitation to the 92nd East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 21 in St. Petersburg, Florida at Tropicana Field in hopes of being drafted into the NFL.

The future was bright for Cox from the get-go, being a true freshman and rushing for 1,250 yards and 21 touchdowns, setting an Appalachian State freshman record.

He then improved to 1,415 yards his sophomore season and led the Sun Belt in rushing touchdowns with 19 while sharing touches with running back Terrence Upshaw. Cox hit career high numbers his junior season for 1,423 yards and was named second team allSun Belt Conference.

Last season, Cox hit the 3,000 yard plateau during homecoming on the first play of the drive to just begin scratching the surface of App State record books.

“The play was supposed to head out-

side but the defense overflowed,” Cox said. “They double-pursued it, there was a big open cutback lane, I cut back and after I broke that one-arm tackle, that was it.”

After he found the open lane, Cox was off to the races for a 59-yard touchdown run becoming the sixth running back in school history to rush over 3,000 yards. His 178 yards that game against the Wyoming Cowboys was the seventh straight time he rushed for 100 yards. Cox has rushed for 100 yards 29 times in 45 career games.

Cox was primed for a breakout 2016 season approaching the 5,000 yard mark and the Mountaineer all-time leading rusher.

On a historic day, the third game of the 2016 season against the Miami Hurricanes with Kidd Brewer rocking full of about 40,000 seats taken, Cox went down with quad injury, which would make him question his ability to become the all-time leading rusher.

Unable to play the next couple of games, there were times Cox didn’t know if he would be able to reach some of the milestones that stood in front of him.

“Coming into my senior year I knew there were a lot of records to reach and milestones that I definitely wanted,” Cox said. “I started off the year great and then I get hurt and missed basically five games and it definitely crosses your

Senior running back Marcus Cox, scores his career breaking touchdown during the game against UL Monroe.

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Photo Credit: Halle Keighton

Jan. 19, 2017

Junior quarterback Taylor Lamb passes the ball to senior running back Marcus Cox. mind [not reaching the milestones].”

Cox returned against Georgia Southern a few weeks later, and despite missing four games, Cox’s numbers were on pace to crush former Mountaineer running back Kevin Richardson’s 4,804 rushing yards and did so on a dreary day against UL-Monroe on Nov. 19.

Head coach Scott Satterfield saw Richardson break the record and now he had the chance to watch Cox do it.

“I was calling the plays for Kevin Richardson when he broke it and it was awesome then,” Satterfield said after the ULM game. “Records are meant to be broken and anytime we’re in the position to break positive records like that, you love it because there’s so

much work that goes into it and there’s so many things that have to happen in order to break records.”

Cox wouldn’t stop there. He had two more games to reach 5,000 rushing yards and during his final collegiate game in the Camellia Bowl against Toledo, Cox became the 22nd running back in NCAA history to rush over 5,000 yards.

“You definitely think about it before a game anytime you have a chance to make history and just being able to be a part of such an elite class of guys is just an honor and a blessing,” Cox said after the bowl win. “But at the end of the day, without my offensive line none of that would be possible.”

Five thousand yards is a huge accomplishment, and as much as he was thinking about hitting that milestone he told himself to do what he’s been doing since Pop Warner football.

“I just told myself to go out there and have fun,” he said.

Cox will leave the Mountaineers in good hands at tailback as Jalin Moore had a breakout season as the Sun Belt’s leading rusher with 1,402 yards. Cox himself, while only appearing in nine games, rushed for 1,022 yards on 147 carries in his final collegiate season.

For four years Cox would always tipped his hat to his strong offensive line, led by senior Parker Collins, for any of his success.

“Obviously the record will go down as 'Cox: all time rushing leader' but it is so much more than that,” Collins said after the ULM game. “We [the offensive-line] are an intrinsic piece in that and you have someone like that who can run through tackles and juke people and we are a part of it too.”

There is no doubt that Cox will humbly tip his hat to others in whatever success comes to him in the NFL. He said he wanted to leave his legacy at App. He did that and more.

“When you get here everyone wants to be the best, but you never really think it’s going to happen until it happens,” Cox said.

Senior running back Marcus Cox, attempts to run the ball down the field and gets tackled by the opposing team during the game against UL Monroe.

Photo Credit: Halle Keighton and Dallas Linger

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Jan. 19, 2017

A NEW REGIME

Athletic director Doug Gillin and baseball head coach Kermit Smith pose for a photo last summer with a jersey for Smith right after he was hired.

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ulture is something

every team in every sport aims to build within a program.

This is what the Appalachian State baseball team is looking to create with drastic changes coming to their coaching staff this offseason.

Coming off a less than stellar 18-36 season last year under previous head coach Billy Jones, who went 68-94 in his three seasons at App, athletic director Doug Gillin felt it was time for a change.

“We had over 100 applications for this position from all levels of baseball that there is,” Gillin said about the application process. “The committee did an outstanding job of really getting us down to a place where we could really zero in on who was the right fit for the job.”

Conducting a nationwide search over the summer, App State found their man.

On July 14, Kermit Smith was named the new head coach of Mountaineers baseball.

Spending his last seven seasons at Lander University, Smith was the winningest coach in the program's history with a 244-134 record which was good enough to take the Bearcats to four Peach

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Belt Conference tournaments as well as three NCAA Tournaments in his last five years with the program.

Smith is now looking to bring that winning mentality along with him to App State in hopes to garner the same amount of success he has had in the past.

“I’m going to do it the same way that I’ve done it for the past 16 years,” Smith said. “My goal as a baseball program is to win a national championship and what we do on a daily basis is we’ll work towards that in every area of the student athlete's life and every area of the coaching staff’s life and every area of the program’s life.”

Complementing Smith on staff includes Justin Aspegren, Britt Johnson and Erik Lunde.

Aspegren was the only coach retained from last year, in which he served as a pitching coach for the Mountaineers in his first season with the team.

He was tasked with guiding one of the nation’s youngest starting rotations, with 52 of Appalachian's 54 games started by a true freshman during the 2016-17 season.

“I look to continue to bring the information and the details that I’ve learned

as both a player and a coach and bring them out here,” Aspegren said. “The biggest thing that we can do as a coaching staff is blend everything that we know together.”

Looking to help blend everything together is assistant coach Britt Johnson.

Johnson spent the last six years coaching with Smith at Lander, starting off as a volunteer coach then being promoted to assistant coach as well as recruiting coordinator in his last three years with the program. He spent time coaching infielders as well as assisting with hitters, also while spending time as the team’s third-base coach.

“He’s [Smith] the kind of guy that you work for and he doesn’t feel like your boss,” Johnson said. “You can’t work for a better person.”

With the majority of Smith’s staff, apart with Aspegren, having all been with each other for multiple years, the chemistry is already established and growing in the program.

Rounding off the coach’s is volunteer assistant coach Erik Lunde.

Lunde played baseball at Lander under Smith for four years earning firstteam all-conference, all-regional and

all-American honors. He then went on to play minor league ball for the Pittsburgh Pirates organization the past two years appearing in 117 games with a batting average of .247.

With Lunde’s experience recently coming out of the minor leagues, he is looking to help shape a young up-andcoming program to the potential that they have.

“I’ve seen a lot of baseball,” Lunde said. “Being able to relate to them in terms of being younger, it really helps, I can capture their attention a little bit more just based on being a similar age and seeing a lot more baseball than they have.”

With the young pitching staff now all one year older, the Mountaineers baseball team is looking to pick up on Smith’s winning attitude and vastly improve their season.

This season has a lot of promise, but first, the Mountaineers will have to get through defending NCAA Champions and conference foe Coastal Carolina if they want to win their conference and advance further with the help of a new staff.

Photo Credit: Justin Perry/App State Athletics

Jan. 19, 2017

Graphic Credit: Nora Smith

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Jan. 19, 2017

INVOKING

THE PROS AND CONS TO A GROUP OF FIVE

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rior to the College Football Playoff system’s existence in 2014, the highest collegiate conferences were called the “Automatic Qualifying” confer-

ences, meaning every conference champion received a berth to a major bowl game.

The non-AQ conferences and independent schools would only receive a major bowl invitation if they ranked high enough. BYU won it all in 1984 and Boise State became prominent in 2007 as they beat powerhouse Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.

With the new playoff system coming into play in 2014, and the old-Big East conference splitting, division one football has 10 conferences split into Power Five (Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, SEC and Pac-12) and Group of Five teams (Sun Belt, MAC, Mountain West, WAC and C-USA). There are also four independent teams (BYU, Notre Dame,

WHY A GROUP OF FIVE PLAYOFF IS A STEP FORWARD JASON HUBER SPORTS EDITOR

The third year of the College Football Playoff system came to an end this month as the Clemson Tigers, a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, took home the title and another year went by with a dominant Power Five school taking home the national championship.

This also concludes three straight years of no Group of Five teams receiving a playoff berth and 33 years since a G5 team has won a title.

Appalachian State, Troy and Old Dominion, all G5 teams, are the only three FBS teams with 10 wins in 2016 to not receive a single vote in the final AP Top 25 ranking.

Western Michigan ranked 15 despite holding a 13-1 record and an undefeated record in the regular season before falling to Wisconsin in the Cotton Bowl.

The problem is that it is time for a change and we need a G5 playoff system to be the solution.

Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier began the discussion of a possible automatic G5 playoff system in December, saying, “Why not? There is absolutely no ability for us [teams in the G5] to be in the national title conversation. That’s just reality. Anyone that says

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Jason Huber is a junior journalism major from Huntersville,North Carolina. we can: that’s a flat-out lie.”

Frazier is right. Since the playoff system’s existence began in 2014, Houston has been the highest ranked G5 team in the final AP Top 25 at No. 8 in 2015.

Western Michigan finished 2016 undefeated and did not rank any higher than 13, only qualifying them to an automatic New Year’s Six bowl for the highest ranked G5 team.

A New Year’s Six bowl against a Power Five team is the best thing a G5 school will be selected to play. The system is setup to where G5 schools will never be looked at as a serious national title contender because of the lack of star-players, strength of schedule and not being labeled a Power Five school.

G5 teams, in reality, only have two things to play for: conference champion-

ships and a bowl game invite. Only one G5 school makes a New Year’s Six Bowl and that is the best outcome they can receive.

G5 Sun Belt conference member Appalachian State finished the last two seasons with 11 and 10 wins respectively and a Sun Belt championship this season, yet they only have two Camellia Bowl wins.

No disrespect to the Camellia Bowl, but it doesn’t really lift the hairs on your arm.

If there was a G5 playoff system, not only could the smaller schools still compete with FBS teams, but they can also compete for some type of national title.

Many people disagree because it would feel like there are two separate divisions competing for their own title, like the FCS does, but that doesn’t have to be the case.

Group of Five teams can still make the CFB Playoff if voters feel they deserve that berth. Power Five conferences play G5 conferences every year, so if App State happens to beat Clemson, Tennessee and Georgia in a season, they still have an opportunity to receive a playoff bid.

Realistically, there is no shot for a G5 team to win a national title because they will never be given the chance. Even with Toledo beating Arkansas, Memphis beating Ole Miss, Temple beating Penn State and Houston beating Louisville just in the last two years, voters will always come up with a way to say these smaller schools are undeserving because of some blemish through the team’s season, or, again, not having the Power Five label.

In an ESPN article by Heather Dinich, she said there are only three realistic ways for a G5 team to make the college football playoff: schedule aggressively, go undefeated and have conference depth.

Western Michigan had two of those three. They didn’t have the conference depth, therefore not getting a lot of respect from the media.

Ratings and viewership would skyrocket for the G5 conferences if a playoff system were born. Schools’ profits would increase and possibly even snowball into recruiting for these smaller universities.

And most importantly, G5 fans would have the opportunity to see their team do something that hasn’t been done since BYU in 1984.

Jan. 19, 2017

DEBATE

PLAYOFF SYSTEM IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL Army and UMass).

In the old BCS system, non-AQ teams could qualify to national bowl games based on their final rankings. With the new playoff system, the highest ranked G5 conference champion plays in a New Year’s Six bowl against against a Power Five foe.

Since the inauguration of this new system, not a single G5 team has made the College Football Playoff. However, G5 teams are 2-1 in their first three games against Power Five teams in the New Year’s Six bowl games with Boise State knocking off Arizona in 2014 and Houston upsetting Florida State the following year.

This has led many discussing the possibility of a playoff system for G5 teams:

WHY A GROUP OF FIVE PLAYOFF IS A STEP BACKWARDS TYLER HOTZ SPORTS REPORTER

While the wide availability of bowl games is one concern, there is another one that is lurking in the back of the minds of many Group of Five programs, which is determining the value these certain bowl games possess.

Concluding the third season of the College Football Playoff era, there still has been no team from the G5 to crash the playoff party, and from the looks of it, the odds of that reality aren’t likely to change.

Because of this, the idea for a separate playoff for G5 teams has been gaining some attention, especially from Athletic Director Sean Frazier from Northern Illinois University.

Frazier, whose Huskies play in the Mid-American Conference, sees that a separate playoff for teams outside of the Power Five conferences would offer a realistic approach towards a championship.

Frazier’s proposed idea is almost identical to the idea of expanding the current College Football Playoff from four to eight teams. In this model, five G5 conference champions would receive an automatic bid and three at-larges would comprise the final three slots.

In addition, Frazier sees that this idea would be financially lucrative for par-

Tyler Hotz is a freshman journalism major from Knoxville, Tennessee. ticipating schools. Reports from ESPN, NBC and CBS have shown a premature interest in televising such a playoff.

Even with a solid base for a G5 playoff, the idea should not and cannot move forward this early in the College Football Playoff era.

Saying that the G5 is its own division, supporters of the playoff try to exaggerate the split between the Group of Five and the Power Five.

In reality, the ten combined conferences all compete for one championship in the FBS. The G5 is not separate from the Power Five, and the idea to officially split the two would be detrimental to Group of Five football.

In the FCS, the division below the FBS, some former top programs such as Appalachian State and Georgia Southern have left in the past few years, which

has further diluted a waning product that has seen 1.6 million or fewer television viewers for its championship game in the past five years.

If a similar division split the G5 and Power Five, then a similar problem could occur. Top teams who are seeing widespread success would look only up, wanting to leave to join a higher division.

Even though teams like App State knew they would have a slim chance to win a national championship on the FBS level, they still decided to leave the FCS for the betterment of their program.

More boundaries hurt smaller programs, and winning a “junior varsity championship” as some G5 athletic directors have said, is no better than winning a bowl game. The title sounds better, but it will always have an asterisk next to it.

Bowl games for G5 teams also are pulling in some impressive results in viewership, where a game between San Diego State and Houston pulled in 3.7 million television viewers. On the same day, two basketball blue bloods North Carolina and Kentucky squared off, and that game only had 3.6 million viewers.

Acknowledging that the current sys-

tem has flaws is reasonable, but it is too soon to say that a dramatic change needs to be made.

Ideas to enhance the current bowl system would be to lower the amount of bowl games, while also playing some of these games on college campuses to try to boost attendance.

Another idea to put G5 programs in the national spotlight could emerge from the expansion from the current College Football Playoff from four to eight teams, where one of the eight teams would be the highest ranked conference champion from the Group of Five.

As of now, there are many questions as to how the current system will evolve, and these questions need time to be worked out before action is taken.

Working with the current system instead of quickly trying to break it down would give G5 football the exposure it deserves while also helping build quality programs.

A shot at winning it all on the current stage is better than having no shot at all.

A G5 playoff would crown a champion, but it leaves too much to be desired going forward.

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