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App State football media day: Mountaineers preparing to take whatever they can get in 2020

Even with all the confusion and unknowns 2020 has brought so far, the Mountaineers and their first-year coaching staff made it through spring ball, finished up summer workouts and walkthroughs, and are set for fall training camp, which starts Aug. 7.

“Our guys are very mature, and they’ve handled this better than I thought they would,” head coach Shawn Clark said. “That’s a credit to those guys in our locker room—they have a lot of experience. Like I told them last night in our meeting, whatever we get, we’re gonna take it and go with it.”

Before the pandemic forced plans to change, App State had a pair of trips to play Power 5 opponents on its non-conference schedule: Wake Forest on Sept.