Lack of class

[UNIAlum95]

I never said Richie won it for ASU. I stood in the stands wondering if we would pull this game out. I thought it was foolish to bring #7 in on the last play of the first half when our only 2 options were to take a knee or take a shot at the end zone. ASU's defense has been great all season. Their adjustments at halftime have been even better. They only allowed 3 second half td's during their 4 game run to the title, and that was only after the game against SIU was pretty much settled. They held their semifinal and final opponents scoreless in the 2nd half. My point was simply that with a Healthy #7, IN MY OPINION based on what I saw, ASU would not have had to rely on a spectacular play From their D-line in the closing minutes, for the second week in a row. The UNI fans that I met @ the Chattanoogan were a great group of people, not until I got home, did I hear of any of the negative things that have come to the surface on this board.

And as I've stated my experiences with the ASU fans were great right up until the post game celebration. We had a few in our section and they cheered on their team and were great. It was only in the post game celebration when some of the events described here went over the line. You had the best team and congratulations. But I'll still call you out every time you say you'd win by 50!

[21-16]

I didn't say win by 50, I just hinted that we may have posted 50

[UNIAlum95]

I didn't say win by 50, I just hinted that we may have posted 50

Fair enough. Enjoy this season. Would love a rematch next year!

[SA4UNI]

You were just unfortunate to be around some of our unclassy fans.

We were never really around your unclassy fans, they came up to us to be unclassy. We (the UNI Band) were just there trying to play our fight song and Alma Mater as our team left the field, and App. St. fans on the field, and stands purposely came to us, yelled stuff, made gestures, and were quite disrespectful. I'm all about supporting your team and being happy, and celebrating a hard fought victory, but celebrate with your team and supporters, don't go taunt the other teams supporters.

On a different note, Congrats to App. St.

UNI did awesome, and I've never been prouder to be a Panther!

[B.True]

Fair enough. Enjoy this season. Would love a rematch next year!

is there open date to bring them up to the dome....i'm about 99% sure that would be a sellout!

[Blueandwhitefightfight]

Hey everyone,

I am a student at Georgia Southern and noticed you board while browsing around I-AA message boards. I have to say this is an extremely nice board, I am very impressed.

I noticed this thread and figured it had to do with App. St. because they are known for their lack of class. I am in the same boat that many of you are when it comes to having little respect for App. St. I recently made the trip to Boone when GSU played them back and October as they are in our conference and had a terrible experience myself. It started the morning of the game, we went to a wine shop to get a few bottles of Napa Valley's finest for our traditional wine toss. I also saw that they had some cigars so, having a taste for fine cigars, proceeded to buy one. The gentleman who owned the shop noticed I was wearing a Georgia Southern shirt and asked me "Why in the sam hell are you buying that, you have to win games to smoke victory cigars son. Appalachian is going to knock the s*** out of your team today." I smiled and bought the cigar and wine. Then a little further towards the stadium, we stopped and filled up the tank of gas. A bunch of App. St. fans were at the gas station and gave us the finger and told us to "go back to hell, I mean South Georgia and pick your da** cotton". Then we went to the stadium and tailgated. The tailgate lot that was supposed to be reserved for visiting teams was filled up with mostly App. St. fans and there was no room left so we had to go up the mountain to a dorm parking lot to tailgate. My group recieved no problems during the tailgate as we were on top of a mountain by ourselves. However the main GSU contingent at the visiting teams tailgate lot ran into a lot of problems. They had beer, rocks and footballs thrown at them by App. State fans from accross the parking lot (the beer cans were half full as well). After we got done tailgating and were walking into the game, we were flicked off by just about everyone, even little kids (which really shocked me). We got the standard "F*** You GSU, You suck, blah blah blah". A few of the more drunk App. St. fans took it further than that. We just laughed at them and told them when they had half the National Championships we do, they could talk trash to us. That pissed them off and only made it worse. During the game nothing too eventful happened. Our team played horribly and deserved to lose. On the way out of the stadium, this old lady raised her cane at me and told me "How does it feel to get your a$$es whipped by Yosef? (their mascot)". I couldn't help but laugh and feel kind of sorry for her.

We left the stadium and went back to our cabin after a rough day. When we got back to Statesboro, I heard some more of the rest of what happened. Apparently during the game some of our fan's cars were keyed, one guy had his tires slashed. They stole the Georgia Southern window flags from peoples cars. Took the GSU magnets off peoples cars. Trashed our tailgating area. I was throughly displeased.

HOWEVER, the WORST example of how piss poor their fans are is what happened a couple years ago. After the regular season GSU game in Boone, their fans stormed the field and tore down the goalposts. They only won by a couple points. It gets worse though. They took the goalposts out of their stadium and rammed them through the Georgia Southern busses windows. They almost seriously injured a few of our players. At the same time, a few of their fans stomped on the after game pizzas that are provided by the home team for the visiting team's players to eat after the game.


I know that there are always a few fans that every team has that act stupid. But believe me when I say that App. State has way more than most schools and their "vocal minority" takes it way out of line. Usually, the vocal minority is made up of the college students that have just had a few too many drinks and act out of hand. However, with App. St. it is little kids, big kids, college kids, parents, old people, etc. And a lot of them are sober and say those things. It is very tasteless and classless. I am ashamed to be in a conference with them.

By the way, I was pulling for UNI all the way Friday night and wasn't in a good mood with App. St. won just because they have such terrible fans.


Good luck next season, maybe UNI can come down to Statesboro and see how the SoCon really acts. If any of you are in town, stop on over by our tailgate and feel free to enjoy a glass of your favorite bev. and a cigar with us. We would be more than happy to have you over.

Sorry again about App. State.

HAIL SOUTHERN!

[dirtyD]

While we were all disgusted by the show of poor sportsmanship after the game, I want to acknowledge UNI's redshirts. I was in the front row next to many of the football players who could not suit up. The App. St fans were standing on the plywood taunting and the guys kept their cool. (What was up with the one legged man taunting?) This says alot about the integrity of our players. Yes, one of our "students" did go over the wall and shove one of their fans. The guy must have flew 5 feet in the air before falling into the national guard. He was not a football player and he quickly returned to his seat. I think we need to applaud the underclassmen. They are the future of Panther athletics and I look forward to watching them in the future.

[UNI MadCat]

It's too bad to hear that App St fans have a "reputation" for being like this. Most of us are doing this and BlueandWhite pointed it out too... but lets make sure we do keep this talk as the "vocal minority". Because, in truth, I had more compliments from opposing fans then I've ever experienced before. Its just too bad that there were more insults than I'd ever had either.

(Of course I'm contributing here) but my worry is that 5 years from now the talk will be "those horrible fans from App St" when really it was a small number compared to the whole lot. That isn't fair to those that were cordial or just enjoyed their championship and left us alone.

I hope that we can schedule a home & home and when they come up here we kick their butts on the field but are classy off of it.

[Appfiend]

Blue and white fight fight

As i sit here and read that u rooted against app state because of your frightful visit to our beatiful campus I have to say I am sorry u had that experience. My wife graduated from GSU in 96, and me being an ASU grad
I am sorry that anyone from UNI or GSU had a terrible experience from some of our fans that do get out of hand. When I tail gate at GSU I have a great experience with my wife, and her friends from long gone by. To say I would root against a SOCON school is something I would never do. Our conference has a deep history like the Gateway. When we go to ASU we tailgate with GSU fans and we have a wonderful time. The score at app this past season was ASU 24 GSU 7. We havent beaten GSU in a long time that is why the post came down. I am truly sorry for your experience, but please understand
I have a very good relation with other GSU fans, and throughly enjoyed meeting some of the UNI fans at Finley stadium. Hopefully maybe our paths will cross so u can meet an ASU fan that does respect the other team. And in defeat will wish the winning team good luck. There are alot of ASU fans in the stadium that truly respect the other team. UNI u have a wonderful program and great fans goodluck to u in the future. Just like GSU does...

[JayJ79]

We havent beaten GSU in a long time that is why the post came down.

I'm guessing that the fact that the goalposts came down wasn't his concern.
Taking them out of the stadium... that is starting to push it.

vandalizing the bus and endangering people's wellbeing...
that is UNTHINKABLE. I've never understood that trend in sports crowds. Vandalizing property, riots (Ohio State comes to mind), etc. Such stuff makes me sick.


On a tangent: I've often wondered, when people "tear down the goalposts", are the goalposts (or their moorings) typically damaged? I know most posts are designed to be removable. But I know the typical drunken mob doesn't exactly follow the prescribed dismantling procedure.

[Appfiend]

I am not justifying them being dragged all over campus, endangering peoples lives I am stating to every one why they tore them down. Does it make sense no. Is it right no, but it happens alot. When we beat GSU in 95 my car got damaged by the goal post when they drug it through the parking lot and dumped it in the duck pond.
I guess it is the chance I will sadly have to take when i go to ASU games

[AmesPanther]

Maybe ASU needs to put up the indestructible goal posts and there is no problems with that.

[JayJ79]

I thought the Finley stadium goalposts were interesting,
how they had it set up to automatically take them down as soon as the game was over.

[UNI MadCat]

Iowa had those at one point, I dont know if they still do or not.

[Newsbreaker]

Many places have those now...MUCH cheaper then replacing expensive goal posts, not to mention much safer.

Appy state has them, however they rusted shut so the goal posts still came down after their semifinal win. Neat for them.