maybe some day you're life offline won't be so miserable that you behave like this online. I wish you the best in your future endeavors.

Better than you expected? They've won three national championships.

OCF is probably saying the kick and call was inconclusive from that angle.

No, I told my wife, even before the officials hands went up, that it looked good. Nice try, Alan, but you're wrong once again.

While I don't think it was ASUTodd's brainiest move to come on our board right afterward, it was not our team's brainiest moment when they got extremely cocky at the end of the half and antagonized the ASU fans. Was it a big deal? no. Did it come back to bite them in the ass, hard, when the entire ASU team taunted them after the win? yeah. that stuff usually does. Some very costly and avoidable penalties by our defense today. Why can't we seem to figure out that taunting is going to get flagged? Every time? How do we not know that? And that late hit? we had them stopped and we deliver that stupid penalty. I know... they're football players, not scientists, and they're really amped up, but come on!

Well. It wasn't just one.

Youngstown State has four. I'd still expect to beat them in football.

BANG !! .. oh baby what a BIG TIME funny post !!

Todd is a moron. On behalf of App nation, I hereby suggest we all ignore him.

Word has it, he's really a high school student. If you all are lucky, maybe he will not apply to Ohio U. once he gets his high school diploma. If App is lucky, maybe he will apply to Western Carolina.

That said, that was an incredible football game last night. The Bobcats played well. There were times that the Mountaineers played well. I have not seen an App game with that many momentum shifts.

I do wish the incident at halftime had not occurred, but it did. My seats were right there beside the band. Anytime a football team communicates with an opposing fan base, things will not go well. It did serve to pump up the App fans. Ohio would have been better served if the App fans were kept quiet. The likelihood of such incidents recurring would be less if each team could exit the field near its own fan-base. But, at the Crampton Bowl, there was only one exit ramp that both teams had to use to get to their locker rooms.

Anyway, the Ohio fans I met over the weekend were fine folks.

Thanks. I appreciate your comments.

I got into Montgomery early on game day and to pass the time, walked around the city. I met any number of App State fans during my sojourn. Every one I met was a pleasure to meet and to talk to. I hope some time that I can plan a campus visit.

One of the biggest turnoffs for me has to be all the chirping, standing over the opposing player and acting like you just freaking conquered the world after an big play or hard hit. Drives me crazy!! It wasn't just Ohio Saturday either. App State did their fair share as well. This has become so common place in today's game. Players show a totals lack of discipline . I was watching the Bengals game yesterday (Who-Dey) and on several occasions the players would make a big play, stand over the opposing player pounding their chest and taunting them. Then a couple plays later the player fumbles the ball and quietly sneaks to the sideline and hides on the bench. Pound your chest then big man! Another is when the player scores with 2 minutes to go in the game and starts dancing yet their team is still behind by 4 touchdowns!

Since I am venting let's talk about the off setting unsportsmanlike penalties. The players should both get warnings and then have to sit out the remainder of the series until there is a change of possession. If it was on 4th down then they sit out the next series.

The sad thing is the attitude has penetrated all the way down to high school and junior high and is pretty much unchecked by coaches and parents. I attended a high school game in Gallia county this past week and one of the kids on the team dropped the F-bomb on the court at least 2 times and not a word was said by the coach or the officials. I know they had to hear because we could hear it in the stands. Had any of my teammates or myself so much as mouthed the F-Bomb (played in the 80's) our parents would have beat the crap out of us when we got home. My mother is and continues to be a loving mother/grandmother that would do anything for her kids but she had zero tolerance for such behavior. I remember once time I told her how much I disliked one of my coaches. She went on to remind me that he was the coach and it was his way or the doorway and if she so much as saw me say one thing to him that was disrespectful that I would answer to her when I got home. Thank God I had her as a mother! I went on to have the same rules with my daughter who played high school sports. (I never beat her! Taking her cell phone and grounding her was far worse) If she didn't like the coach I told her not to play but if she played the coach was the coach and she was to do what she was told to do. Once the season started she was also NOT allowed to quit. She made a commitment to her coach and the team and she would see it through.

All the cockiness in football and basketball have actually been one of the reasons I have grown to love hockey so much. I know there is chirping on the ice that we don't hear but the players always come across as humble and just happy to be able to play the game. They celebrate with hugs and high fives following a goal or a win and that's pretty much it. If a player goes to far the gloves drop and the player is given a "slight attitude adjustment"! In fact my daughter and I are getting ready to head to Pittsburgh to see the Blue Jackets tonight! Go Jackets!