Football

Why Our Book Cover Showcases CoCo Hillary’s Big Day

The cover photo for Appalachian State Silences the Big House, taken by Kevin Cline, captures the heart and soul of the game. Coach Jerry Moore recruited CoCo Hillary from South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond High School, just down the road from Greenwood, where App State quarterback Armanti Edwards played at the same time. On September 1, 2007, CoCo…

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10 years ago, App State was no cupcake

ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit calls them “cupcake games.”  Lower division teams get paid to travel to college football’s meccas, where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra home game. Michigan, with more wins than any team in history, hosted the Appalachian State Mountaineers, from Boone, N.C., on September 1, 2007, in the first such…

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Coming Summer 2017 from McFarland Publishing

No American sport combines the traditions, pageantry, and, like it or not, money, more than big-time college football. And no college football program epitomizes the sport more than Michigan and its Big House, a stadium holding 109,901 fervent Wolverine fans several Saturdays every fall.  On the flip side is Appalachian State, a small school in…

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