Coach Jerry Moore is popular in football circles for a couple of different reasons. In twenty years as their head coach, the Appalachian State Mountaineers have won Six Southern Confernece Championships and three NCAA Div1-AA National Championships. The National Championships were all won in three-peat style, a historic first.
All that made Coach Moore noteworthy. But this win made him famous.
Beating Michigan in their own house? Shine on, baby!
And people still want to talk about Moore as detailed here.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Appalachian State, which pulled a shocking 34-32 upset at then-No. 5 Michigan last season, is getting calls from Big Ten schools looking for an edge over the Wolverines.
But that was last year. So why are people asking about his insights into a program that has a new head coach? Well, it turns out that he’s got the inside track on the same head coach.
The favorite topic: ASU’s spread offense, which is based on Urban Meyer’s Utah model but involves nuances that Moore’s staff learned while visiting West Virginia as guests of Coach Rich Rodriguez.
“Since Rodriguez got the Michigan job,” Moore told the Journal, “I’ve had calls from every other school in the Big Ten.”
I guess we’ll all see how well those teams took notes from Moore this fall.
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