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Long way to the top….
Ridindown the highway / Goin to a show / Stop in all the by-ways / Playinrocknroll / Gettin robbed / Gettinstoned / Gettin beat up / Broken boned /Gettinhad/ Gettin took / I tell you folks / It`s harder than it looks…It’s a long way to the top, if you wanna’ rock n roll…
-AC/DC
(Notes from a moral defeat/actual victory…)
**Why the rock and roll quote? The Pirates of ECU, just after desperately holding off a fourth quarter charge by ASU, showed they know how to rock the house, but you can’t unplug at halftime. If they are to live up to this season’s expectations, the Pirates have a long way to go…
**The Pirates’ delay of game penalty to start the game turned out to be a little ironic, because the end couldn’t come soon enough…
**Free Safety Van Eskridge, again among the team leaders in tackles is our ‘secret linebacker’…
**While Pirate fans were yawning in the third period, ASU fans were yodeling in their little corner of the stadium. I think it’s a safe bet to say that Pirates are not morning people…
**You can call Appalachian a ‘FCS’ program if you like, and they are no doubt a bit smaller across the board, but football is football. And those guys know how to play.
**The new Pirate looks less like Johnny Depp, and more like Snoop Dogg (at least with the new ‘lid’)…
**The’ Fick has always been a tough ‘room’, but the personnel operating the student gates need to chill out a little and let the kids in… without the third degree and near-strip searches. Once again we find that our security people are less interested in protecting the crowd and more interested in victimizing them…
**Going into the season I thought ECU had a lot of weapons on offense, but increasingly it looks more like we have a lot of ammo, but just one gun. Other than the anomaly that was the 2008 UTEP game, ECU hasn’t scored more than 30 points since the 2007 season, when the Bucs did it in eight out of their 13 games…
**I haven’t seen the telecast of the game, but I hope somebody got paid. TV games kill the natural flow of the game with all of the extended commercial nterruptions. And I still can’t figure out why this game was moved to Noon. The MASN TV schedule didn’t have any live events to air until Saturday night, unless horse racing is really that big of a draw…
**ASU coach Jerry Moore wasn’t playing cat and mouse by announcing DeAndre Presley to start at QB, but the play of Travaris Cadet turned out to be a surprise. Call him a backup for a FCS team if you like, but the transfer from Dayton was hard to find and harder to tackle. When ECU did finally sack him though, it was at a crucial time…
**Even though the sellout crowd was subdued at times, the ‘Fick’s noise meter must have been off the chart late. ASU looked really confused when they burned their last time out…
**Even though ECU played somewhere around 65 players during the game, I hope we left something for the next set of Mountaineers we face…
**Even though both teams have a open spot in their future schedules in 2012, don’t look for ECU AD Terry Holland to announce a continuation of the series in the near future. He may book the date, but if he’s smart (and I know he is) he’ll let the post-game anxiety settle a bit before any official announcement is made. And I doubt there are but so many fans who want to see Dowdy-Ficklen ‘Back in Black’ any time soon…
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