Western Carolina vs Arkansas: Countdown to kick

[Spiderham]

There are lots of Lions, Tigers, and Bears but there's only one Catamount!

[BASS]

Didn't even get the know your cupcake thread

[BleedinRed]

This is how Woopig ends.  Mismanagement will kill any organization.

[bigpig]

I'm all for getting this thing rolling, but at least get the season prediction thread going first.

Game one prediction thread will be last Wednesday of August. Overall season prediction pole will be the Wednesday before that.

Almost there. We're still in the "who broke their foot in practice today" phase of the preseason.

[animal]

The Western Carolina Catamounts football program represents Western Carolina University. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Southern Conference. Since the school's first football team was fielded in 1931, the Catamounts have a record of 341-502-23, have made two postseason appearances, and have played in one national championship game.
Western Carolina plays its home games at the 13,742 seat Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium located on the campus in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Kerwin Bell is the coach of Western Carolina

[Show-Me Hog]

The Western Carolina Catamounts football program represents Western Carolina University. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Southern Conference. Since the school's first football team was fielded in 1931, the Catamounts have a record of 341-502-23, have made two postseason appearances, and have played in one national championship game.
Western Carolina plays its home games at the 13,742 seat Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium located on the campus in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

Kerwin Bell is the coach of Western Carolina

That looks like a junior high pep squad. Not exactly Oregon or TCU or UCLA.

[Spiderham]

My Western Carolina story:  

My dad grew up in Waynesville, NC, just north of the Sylva/Cullowhee metroplex.
I have been all over that beautiful area hiking and fishing over the years as we made at least a yearly trip there.

My house near UAMS on Capitol was broken into, and several things were stolen.  A month later, it was broken into again. I guess they thought we had replaced the stereo and TV they stole (we hadn't, as we were med students in the middle of finals and didn't need them anyway).  They stole clothes and hats during that break-in.  After the second break-in, the LR police caught the guy entering another nearby house.  I was asked to come to the station to fill out some forms and potentially ID the suspect.  The officer showed me a mugshot of the guy and asked if I'd seen him around the neighborhood.  I said no, but he's wearing my Western Carolina sweatshirt....
Not too many brothas in LR wearing Catamounts gear.
The cop went to the jail, took it off him, and returned it to me.  It stank to high heaven.  I threw it in the trash on my way out of the station.  

[jdcatty]

My Western Carolina story: 

My dad grew up in Waynesville, NC, just north of the Sylva/Cullowhee metroplex.
I have been all over that beautiful area hiking and fishing over the years as we made at least a yearly trip there.

My house near UAMS on Capitol was broken into, and several things were stolen.  A month later, it was broken into again. I guess they thought we had replaced the stereo and TV they stole (we hadn't, as we were med students in the middle of finals and didn't need them anyway).  They stole clothes and hats during that break-in.  After the second break-in, the LR police caught the guy entering another nearby house.  I was asked to come to the station to fill out some forms and potentially ID the suspect.  The officer showed me a mugshot of the guy and asked if I'd seen him around the neighborhood.  I said no, but he's wearing my Western Carolina sweatshirt....
Not too many brothas in LR wearing Catamounts gear.
The cop went to the jail, took it off him, and returned it to me.  It stank to high heaven.  I threw it in the trash on my way out of the station. 

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[Ray Zorback]

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[Ray Zorback]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHQBtBobi3o

Felix Jones 4 Career Kickoff Return TD's

[BleedinRed]

My Western Carolina story: 

My dad grew up in Waynesville, NC, just north of the Sylva/Cullowhee metroplex.
I have been all over that beautiful area hiking and fishing over the years as we made at least a yearly trip there.

My house near UAMS on Capitol was broken into, and several things were stolen.  A month later, it was broken into again. I guess they thought we had replaced the stereo and TV they stole (we hadn't, as we were med students in the middle of finals and didn't need them anyway).  They stole clothes and hats during that break-in.  After the second break-in, the LR police caught the guy entering another nearby house.  I was asked to come to the station to fill out some forms and potentially ID the suspect.  The officer showed me a mugshot of the guy and asked if I'd seen him around the neighborhood.  I said no, but he's wearing my Western Carolina sweatshirt....
Not too many brothas in LR wearing Catamounts gear.
The cop went to the jail, took it off him, and returned it to me.  It stank to high heaven.  I threw it in the trash on my way out of the station. 

My wife has identified Waynesville as one of the potential retirement towns.  

[FNG]

[FNG]

My dad grew up in Waynesville, NC, just north of the Sylva/Cullowhee metroplex.

Apologies for derailing the thread (I'm gonna do it anyway) but how did your dad end up in Arkansas, if you don't mind sharing?

[bigpig]

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Weird seeing those jerseys with those pants. That was 2005, I believe, before we switched to the double stripe.

[jdcatty]

I loved Felix Jones.   Probably as much as I loved McFadden.

[Spiderham]

Apologies for derailing the thread (I'm gonna do it anyway) but how did your dad end up in Arkansas, if you don't mind sharing?

Got out of the army after WW2 at Camp Robinson and didn't want to go back to Western NC and grow apples or tobacco like most of his family.   (We visited every year around the holidays and sometimes twice a year when he took us to Carolina Beach in the summer )

He stayed here and finished school at LR JC on the GI Bill (eventually was UALR)  He eventually worked as a trooper for Ark State Police (appointed by the Govenor back in those days) around Hot Springs before opening a nursery and landscaping business in NLR that lasted 35 years. 

He retired back in Waynesville   I was in residency at Emory in Atlanta then and spent a bunch of weekends up in those mountains. 
He eventually moved back to NLR when his health started to decline. 
He passed away 12 years ago but had some great stories. 

[Spiderham]

My wife has identified Waynesville as one of the potential retirement towns. 

Beautiful area. Fantastic climate. 
The only drawback is the ever spreading peoples republic of Asheville is 20 miles away. Haywood County is definitely not Asheville politically. 

[FNG]

Got out of the army after WW2 at Camp Robinson and didn't want to go back to Western NC and grow apples or tobacco like most of his family.  (We visited every year around the holidays and sometimes twice a year when he took us to Carolina Beach in the summer )

He stayed here and finished school at LR JC on the GI Bill (eventually was UALR)  He eventually worked as a trooper for Ark State Police (appointed by the Govenor back in those days) around Hot Springs before opening a nursery and landscaping business in NLR that lasted 35 years.

He retired back in Waynesville  I was in residency at Emory in Atlanta then and spent a bunch of weekends up in those mountains.
He eventually moved back to NLR when his health started to decline.
He passed away 12 years ago but had some great stories.

Thought it was probably military but figured Air Force/Jacksonville rather than Army.

I live in the Sand Hills region of NC now but the NW area of the state is gorgeous and a lot of the mountainous parts haven't changed much since the Revolutionary War.

[Ray Zorback]

the player not the coach
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