The SoCon Football Media Day was held earlier today, Coach Moore & QB Jamal Jackson helped represent the Black & Gold at the event.
The All-SoCon team was released, and App State led the way with 10 players elected to the team including:
QB Jamal Jackson, Jr. (1st Team)
LB Jeremy Kimbrough, Sr. (1st Team)
DB Demetrius McCray, Sr. (1st Team)
OL Kendall Lamm, So.
WR Andrew Peacock, Jr.
WR Tony Washington, Jr.
DL Ronald Blair, So.
LB Brandon Grier, Sr.
DB Troy Sanders, Sr.
P Sam Martin, Sr.
View the full All-SoCon team HERE.
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The preseason coaches & media polls were released as well. They matched each other minus App State & Wofford who flip flopped between 2nd & 3rd between polls.
We received 2 first place votes in the coaches poll. Since coaches are not allowed to vote for themselves I’m going to guess one of them was Georgia Southern. I’d also like to think our old asst coach Mark Speir, now at Western Carolina, was the other one, but that’s just a guess.
2012 SoCon Football Preseason Coaches Poll
School (First-place votes) Points
1. Georgia Southern (7) 63
2. Appalachian State (2) 57
3. Wofford 48
4. Chattanooga 44
5. Furman 36
6. Samford 27
7. Elon 24
8. The Citadel 17
9. Western Carolina 8
2012 SoCon Football Preseason Media Poll
School (First-place votes) Points
1. Georgia Southern (25) 266
2. Wofford (4) 225
3. Appalachian State (1) 223
4. Chattanooga 163
5. Furman 152
6. Samford 105
7. Elon 104
8. The Citadel 79
9. Western Carolina 36
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IN OTHER NEWS: take a look at Western Carolina’s new helmet that they announced a few days ago:
Purple is just ugly no matter how you spin it. I’m not a big fan of their Catamount logo either. I would have probably gone with a WCU block letter logo.
All that being said, it’s 10 times better than this ugly thing UNCC just decided to call a helmet:
I looked for a picture of their team wearing them, then I remembered they don’t have one yet. Honest mistake.
