Jacksonville, AL – Jacksonville State hopes to see a hopeful outlook on the FBS’s progress while battling another chicken that crossed the road and found quickly results.
Joe Medley Joe Medley
Jacksonville State and Coastal Carolina will be playing a football match on Saturday, but the real importance will be in determining an issue that’s been consuming generations of snarky jokers.
What caused the chicken to go over the road?
It is clear that the Chanticleers crossed over from Football Championship Subdivision Road to beat the competition earlier then later Football Bowl Subdivision Boulevard.
What will be clearer after the Saturday’s game at 6 p.m. match on Myrtle Beach is how soon the Gamecocks may anticipate the other team to be as comfortable.
So far, so good for Jax State. The Gamecocks took home the FBS in addition to their Conference USA opener against UTEP and then swept FCSer East Tennessee.
In the first game of its existence in its first game as an FBS program, Jax State held a team that made 15 bowl appearances and 14 points.
For Game 2 during the Gamecocks’ FBS era, they had a change of heart, going from beating ETSU by one score in 2018’s FCS playoffs to crushing Bucs by nearly 7 touchdowns by 2023.
They are the next level of results for a team that is playing at the level of Level 1, FBS 23.
If it wasn’t for the fact that it happened this way, then one could claim that it shouldn’t have taken place in that manner. But not this quickly.
This is a promising start, and gives hope of Jax State football can pull off a Coastal Carolina, which won the conference championship and has had three bowl appearances following its move to the top of the league in the 2017 season.
Jax State coach Rich Rodruguez believes there is something to be desired in the Gamecocks the team’s next opponent.
“They’re likely to serve as an example for teams who have made the move to FCS up to FBS and have done it right and have won games and are fully committed to the team,” he said.
For Coastal, FBS success wasn’t immediately. The Chanticleers were 3-9 with 5-7, 5-7 and 3-9 in their initial three FBS seasons.
And then 11-1, 11-2 and 9-4 were all in the seasons four five, six and four. This is quick as far as moving up processes are concerned.
Coastal Carolina had Joe Moglia who was promoted from fancy titles like TD Ameritrade, Fundamental Global Investors and Capital Wealth Advisors to his current job title … chairman of the Coastal Carolina Athletics Division, executive director for football, and executive advisor for the President.
Then, Moglia coached the Chanticleers.
He worked for 17 years on his way up the corporate ladder of Merrill Lynch before becoming TD Ameritrade’s chief executive in 2001.
An ex- Coastal Carolina coach once famously was heard to say, “We need more dogs.” Joe Moglia made the sound of bark and bite tangible in the world of finance, and every college school that aspires to be successful must have an Joe Moglia.
Every prospective program must have a website to promote new recruits.
Coastal Carolina added investments to benefits. It was the South Carolina State Fiscal Accountability Authority approved a 20 million practice center indoor in the month of June after increasing the cost of the project to $15 million.
This is following Brooks Stadium underwent a two-phase expansion of $38 million from 2017 to.
“They have moved up with the intent of advancing to achieve great success … ,” Rodriguez explained. “There’s programs that go higher but don’t have the whole commitment. For me, it appears to me that, from the facility perspective, as well as an obligation standpoint they were all in and established their own brand like “Come ball at the beach and then promoted the idea from a recruitment standpoint and it’s been successful for the program.”
Jax State has made investments to make its sports programs more appealing at FBS conferences. The Burgess-Snow Stadium, which was expanded in 2010, has 3000 more fans than Brooks holds.
The Loring and Debbie White Football Complex is positioned as a pillar of concrete and beams that promise future developments.
There’s no beach There’s no beach, but Rodriguez claims Jax State can sell the Appalachian foothills and appeal of small-town living.
Joe Moglia is taken, but the Gamecocks cross the road, along with many dogs.
“It’s going to be a tough task and we’ll discover a lot more about ourselves during the contest,” Rodriguez said. “I believe we’ll be able to play hard. We’ll have to be extremely good more than we’ve played the past two games to take the game.”
