BOONE, N.C. — Scott Satterfield still remembers the specific date.
Driving his packed-up pickup truck from Hillsborough on his move-in day as an Appalachian State freshman, Satterfield made a pit stop where Interstate 77 intersects with U.S. 421 east of Boone. A similarly aged stranger from Camden, S.C., stopped at the same spot with his family, saw Satterfield and introduced himself.
The long-standing friendship between Satterfield and Shawn Elliott officially began on Aug. 3, 1991.
They've been college teammates and roommates. They were App State assistants together for more than a decade, and now they're both Sun Belt head coaches, with Satterfield's Mountaineers (6-4, 5-1) preparing to play Saturday against Elliott's Georgia State Panthers (6-3, 5-1) in a first-place showdown at 2 p.