The WCU vs ETSU game has a trophy for the "Blue Ridge Border Battle". The overall series stands WCU 27 - ETSU 25 with 1 tie. The trophy and rivalry seems a bit manufactured to me, but we do play...
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The WCU vs ETSU game has a trophy for the "Blue Ridge Border Battle". The overall series stands WCU 27 - ETSU 25 with 1 tie. The trophy and rivalry seems a bit manufactured to me, but we do play...
I would be amazed if you said WCU football isn’t better than it was at the end of the Mark Speir era or during the 6 or 7 years prior to that. Have we gotten over the hump and into the playoffs -...
I heard a great interview with Miami of Ohio’s coach yesterday. He talked about the opportunities now at his level to sign much better high school players than ever before because the P5 schools...
Somehow you left off the most important seasons - 2022 (6 wins) and 2023 (7 wins) as well as any of the other semi-successful campaigns. This past season WCU had creeped up into the top-10 in some...
Before we had some transfer portal casualties, I would have said WCU was going to be loaded next season. I still expect we will have a lot of very talented athletes and will continue to be a handful...
Ed Jones played some safety, some LB, and generally moved around. He had a few big INTs, had a few sacks, and was generally a guy who found the football. He had an INT return for a TD that was...
Day 1 early signings for WCU:
Secrea Algie
6-5, 300 lbs, Offensive Line
Snellville, Ga. (Brookwood HS)
Prior to Western Carolina: Played offensive and defensive line as a prep … Named to the...
That looks more like WCU's typical class! And that Newbauer kid is huge for a high school QB.
WCU with only 7 officially so far, so I'll wait to post when we think we are closer to finished. Not...
Updated the WCU list - Ed Jones IV entered the portal. He was a ball-hawk who made some big plays on defense. Looking more like a defensive rebuild in Cullowhee for our new DC, but I'd guess a lot...
Partial schedule for WCU - https://catamountsports.com/sports/football/schedule/2024
August 31st - @ NC State
September 7th - CAMPBELL
September 14th - @ Elon
September 21st - @ Montana...
We still have according to the media the all-Socon/Offensive POTY at QB in Gonzalez. We also return at least 5 WRs who had tons of playing time. Dez Reid was a difference-maker, but he also got...
Defense:
Marlon Alexander (#90) - Nose - was a Grad student this year and is out of eligibility
Bryce Wilson (#0) - Tackle - Sr - not sure if he has any eligibility left, and he was on the 2-deep...
Andreas Keaton from WCU has committed to Temple.
Not surprising, but WCU's Dez Reid and Censere Lee show as commits to Pitt, following OC Kade Bell to the Panthers. Andreas Keaton looks to be signing with Temple.
Continue to be a playoff caliber team. What I meant and what I typed didn't line up - I am painfully aware that the Cats didn't make the playoffs.
In other news, the portal works the other way,...
As for “working the portal” it is pretty hard to keep your guys when they get offers to go to the ACC. Sucks for WCU that we lose Kade Bell and 2 really good skill guys to the Pitt Panthers, but you...
WCU has the 3 big losses that are mentioned, but as this has shifted to not just guys in the portal but also others graduating we lose 2 really good offensive lineman (Coulter snd Smith), our tall WR...
Quarles has head coach and OC experience along with deep ties to TN high school football. I agree things sucked at ETSU, but the program had a mass exodus of players when Sanders abruptly retired...
As I peruse most of the SOCON boards, there is no doubt that every fanbase thinks that the SOCON refs are against their team. In reality, the league officiating is simply horrendous on all fronts...
Again I'd say the "rift" is overblown. As a few have put in their thoughts about who to go after and why (market they are in, geographical fit for our footprint, quality of programs, etc.) it seems...
@FUBeAR, I think you are misinterpreting my posts. I am actually agreeing that to me we all have very similarly aligned interests when looking at athletics. Our schools, their populations and...
It would be interesting to have people from each school throw out their "top-3" adds. My bet is there might be quite a bit of overlap. Of course what we think/want on a message board has no real...
I put it in the coaching thread around Kade Bell leaving to take the OC job at Pitt, but Censere Lee (WR1 from WCU) also got an offer from Pitt this week. Hasn't signed yet AFAIK, but hard to think...
My feeling is that it is more about which way would Citadel and VMI vote in regards to possible expansion schools more so than the "interest" of the current programs. But that is true in almost...
Didn't ETSU's AD just do that? At least for his school, and then he put the words into UTC's mouths. But I think everybody knows the Mocs would like to move.
I still think there are teams that...