“When we set out this season, our goals were to number one win the Sun Belt, number two to get to a bowl and win the bowl,” Satterfield explained. “We pretty much did everything we set out to do this year. We got double digit wins again. Back-to-back double digit wins. Back-to-back Camellia Bowl champions. I don’t know what else you can do. We did about all we could do this year. It was unbelievable.”
Appalachian supporters also received a reality check during bowl preparation when Satterfield’s name was floated as a leading candidate for the University of Cincinnati job, a rumor that this black-and-gold bleeding coach tried to downplay.