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Playing, Coaching Success Contribute to Fruitful App State Football Coaching Tree

BOONE, NC — Page 26 from the 2001 Appalachian State media guide looks like it has been pulled from a time capsule.

In a section reserved for App State assistant football coaches, the bio for a fourth-year running backs coach takes up the left half of the page. The bio of a first-year defensive backs coach occupies the other half.

Seventeen years later, Scott Satterfield is a record-setting head coach at his alma mater and Steve Wilks is a newly introduced National Football league (NFL) head coach with the Arizona Cardinals.

“My first reaction was, ‘Man, how old was I?