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After winning the Sun Belt Conference out- right, the ASU football team will play in the GoDaddy.com Bowl in Mobile, Ala. On Jan 6., the Red Wolves will verse the Mid-American Conference’s 25th ranked Kent State Flashes. Twenty-four hours after defeating Middle Tennessee 45-0 to close out the regular sea- son, it was announced Sunday evening the team would be returning to the bowl, where it lost to Northern Illinois 38-20 to close out the 2011 season. e invitation to Mobile came after a day of speculation and lobbying from fans through social media and emails trying to convince the Autozone Liberty Bowl in Memphis to take ASU, which would have pitted the Red Wolves against Conference USA champion Tulsa on Dec. 31. e bowl game will be the first of Terry Mohajir’s tenure as the ASU athletic director. “I can’t tell you how excited I am about our program and how proud we are of our student athletes and our coaches…and the way they proved themselves on the field yesterday for the conference championship,” Mohajir said in a press conference Sunday night. “We’re so thrilled for them. Now we get an opportunity to go back to the GoDaddy.com Bowl. “From all accounts of what people have told me since I’ve been here, they had a great experience and we’re looking forward to go- ing back to Mobile to paint the town scarlet and black.” Mohajir said ASU’s goal for ticket sales is to eclipse the mark set by Southern Mississip- pi with 14,000. Last season’s game saw 38,734 people attend the match-up between Sun Belt and MAC schools. It will be the third time Head Coach Gus Malzahn will have coached in the bowl game, having coached in it twice as an offensive co- ordinator for Tulsa. “We’re playing a top-25 team, and we’re ex- cited about the opportunity to play in the Go- Daddy.com Bowl,” Malzahn said at the press conference Sunday. “Mobile is a football town -- they show up, support the bowl and do a great job with the way they treat the guests and players, so it’s a great bowl.” e game will be the final collegiate battle for seniors Ryan Aplin and Nathan Herrold, who both broke many team records over the course of the team’s 12-game season. “We are excited as ever to be back in a bowl game once again this year. It’s going to be a blast and we can’t wait to play in front of our fans again,” Aplin said. e Red Wolves opponent, Kent State, is ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ON THE WEB www.ASUHerald.com Informing the campus and community since 1921 Volume 92, Issue 24 Sun Belt Champs The Red Wolves became conference champs winning 45-0 against MTSU. Sports 3 Monday, December 3, 2012 is week in history: In 2007, ASU began discussions on establishing a student conduct board. e board was created in an effort to give students the opportunity to appeal their case, where students would judge other students. e board was put into place that following spring semester. Dreams take energy to realize. Days left until Mayan Apocalypse 18 Opinion|2 Quoteable What’s Inside Opinion ........................... 2 Sports............................... 3 News................................. 4 DANIEL MCFADIN OPINIONS EDITOR Staci Vandagriff| Photo Editor ASU-Jonesboro Chancellor Tim Hudson stands with Senior Quarterback Ryan Aplin and Red Wolves head football coach Gus Malzahn while accepting the Sun Belt Conference Championship Trophy. DEJA VU, 3 Déjà Vu Red Wolves return to GoDaddy.com Bowl for second straight season Every year ASU’S Student Government Associa- tion presents one family with the prestigious honor of Red Wolf Family of the Year. e chosen family for 2012 was the Calaways, of Jonesboro. is family of six has shown outstanding commitment and dedication to ASU for numerous years. e family was presented the award Dec. 1 during the first time-out of ASU’s final home foot- ball game this season. e Calaways were presented with a plaque as the award was announced. e Calaway family includes Elizabeth Suiter- Calaway, mother, and Dennis Calaway, father, both alumni of ASU. ey have continued to instill a Red Wolf Legacy in their four children: Sean, Katie, Bridget and Sarah. Dennis earned a master’s degree in finance from ASU and used to teach in the College of Business. Elizabeth earned her bachelor’s degree from ASU in early childhood education. Sean is currently a senior at ASU, working to- ward a degree in criminology. His involvements with the university include the Honors College, the College of Republicans, Residence Life, Journey Campus and Pi Kappa Alpha, where he is currently serving as new member educator. Katie is a junior, majoring in political science/ pre-law. She is also highly involved within the uni- versity. Her extracurricular activities include Alpha Gamma Delta, where she serves as vice president of member development, the Honors College, SGA, where she is the current junior senator, Pre-law Club and the College of Republicans. Bridget is a sophomore and is seeking a degree in chemistry/pre-med. Like her older siblings, Bridget is involved in the Honors College, Journey Campus and Alpha Gamma Delta, where she is vice presi- dent of scholarship. Sarah is the youngest of the four children. She is currently a sophomore at Valley View High School. “I feel honored to have been chosen with my siblings for this amazing award,” Katie said. Our family has always had a connection with Arkansas State and I am so proud to be a part of this univer- sity. I thank the Student Government Association for choosing my family with this award.” Calaways named Red Wolf Family of the Year LYNDSEY PATTERSON STAFF WRITER Staci Vandagriff| Photo Editor SGA President Hunter Petrus awards the Calaway family with Red Wolves Family of the Year during the first time-out of Saturday’s football game against Middle Tennessee State Uni- versity. From left, Dennis Calaway, Bridget, Sean, Katie, Elizabeth Suiter-Calaway and Sarah stand on the Red Wolves football field.

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After winning the Sun Belt Conference out-right, the ASU football team will play in the GoDaddy.com Bowl in Mobile, Ala. On Jan 6., the Red Wolves will verse the Mid-American Conference’s 25th ranked Kent State Flashes.

Twenty-four hours after defeating Middle Tennessee 45-0 to close out the regular sea-son, it was announced Sunday evening the team would be returning to the bowl, where it lost to Northern Illinois 38-20 to close out the 2011 season.

The invitation to Mobile came after a day of speculation and lobbying from fans through

social media and emails trying to convince the Autozone Liberty Bowl in Memphis to take ASU, which would have pitted the Red Wolves against Conference USA champion Tulsa on Dec. 31.

The bowl game will be the first of Terry Mohajir’s tenure as the ASU athletic director.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am about our program and how proud we are of our student athletes and our coaches…and the way they proved themselves on the field yesterday for the conference championship,” Mohajir said in a press conference Sunday night. “We’re so thrilled for them. Now we get an opportunity to go back to the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

“From all accounts of what people have told me since I’ve been here, they had a great experience and we’re looking forward to go-ing back to Mobile to paint the town scarlet and black.”

Mohajir said ASU’s goal for ticket sales is to eclipse the mark set by Southern Mississip-pi with 14,000. Last season’s game saw 38,734 people attend the match-up between Sun Belt and MAC schools.

It will be the third time Head Coach Gus Malzahn will have coached in the bowl game, having coached in it twice as an offensive co-ordinator for Tulsa.

“We’re playing a top-25 team, and we’re ex-

cited about the opportunity to play in the Go-Daddy.com Bowl,” Malzahn said at the press conference Sunday. “Mobile is a football town -- they show up, support the bowl and do a great job with the way they treat the guests and players, so it’s a great bowl.”

The game will be the final collegiate battle for seniors Ryan Aplin and Nathan Herrold, who both broke many team records over the course of the team’s 12-game season.

“We are excited as ever to be back in a bowl game once again this year. It’s going to be a blast and we can’t wait to play in front of our fans again,” Aplin said.

The Red Wolves opponent, Kent State, is

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Sun Belt ChampsThe Red Wolves became conference champs winning 45-0 against MTSU.

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Monday, December 3, 2012

This week in history:In 2007, ASU began discussions on establishing a student conduct board. The board was created in an effort to give students the opportunity to appeal their case, where students would judge other students. The board was put into place that following spring semester.

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Days left until Mayan Apocalypse

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DANIEL MCFADINOPINIONS EDITOR

Staci Vandagriff| Photo EditorASU-Jonesboro Chancellor Tim Hudson stands with Senior Quarterback Ryan Aplin and Red Wolves head football coach Gus Malzahn while accepting the Sun Belt Conference Championship Trophy.

DEJA VU, 3

Déjà VuRed Wolves return to GoDaddy.com Bowl for second straight season

Every year ASU’S Student Government Associa-tion presents one family with the prestigious honor of Red Wolf Family of the Year.

The chosen family for 2012 was the Calaways, of Jonesboro. This family of six has shown outstanding commitment and dedication to ASU for numerous years. The family was presented the award Dec. 1 during the first time-out of ASU’s final home foot-ball game this season. The Calaways were presented with a plaque as the award was announced.

The Calaway family includes Elizabeth Suiter-Calaway, mother, and Dennis Calaway, father, both alumni of ASU. They have continued to instill a Red Wolf Legacy in their four children: Sean, Katie, Bridget and Sarah.

Dennis earned a master’s degree in finance from ASU and used to teach in the College of Business.

Elizabeth earned her bachelor’s degree from ASU in early childhood education.

Sean is currently a senior at ASU, working to-ward a degree in criminology. His involvements

with the university include the Honors College, the College of Republicans, Residence Life, Journey Campus and Pi Kappa Alpha, where he is currently serving as new member educator.

Katie is a junior, majoring in political science/pre-law. She is also highly involved within the uni-versity. Her extracurricular activities include Alpha Gamma Delta, where she serves as vice president of member development, the Honors College, SGA, where she is the current junior senator, Pre-law Club and the College of Republicans.

Bridget is a sophomore and is seeking a degree in chemistry/pre-med. Like her older siblings, Bridget is involved in the Honors College, Journey Campus and Alpha Gamma Delta, where she is vice presi-dent of scholarship.

Sarah is the youngest of the four children. She is currently a sophomore at Valley View High School.

“I feel honored to have been chosen with my siblings for this amazing award,” Katie said. Our family has always had a connection with Arkansas State and I am so proud to be a part of this univer-sity. I thank the Student Government Association for choosing my family with this award.”

Calaways named Red Wolf Family of the YearLYNDSEY PATTERSON

STAFF WRITER

Staci Vandagriff| Photo EditorSGA President Hunter Petrus awards the Calaway family with Red Wolves Family of the Year during the first time-out of Saturday’s football game against Middle Tennessee State Uni-versity. From left, Dennis Calaway, Bridget, Sean, Katie, Elizabeth Suiter-Calaway and Sarah stand on the Red Wolves football field.

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It has been more than 10 months since I arrived in the land of the United States of America as an exchange/international stu-dent, and I have less than one month left before going back to South Korea.

During my stay in Jonesboro, I have learned so many things—from academics to culture.

Since I have lived my entire life in Korea, which is a homogeneous country, I could relate on almost anything with others easily. Every-thing happened in the boundaries I had made or that I could accept. That was the reason I was not sure how much I could be accustomed to this whole new life. Because of this, I was prejudiced into think-ing all Americans are full of ‘indi-vidualism.’

However, I realized I was wrong, and I have gotten used to being here.

A lot of people approached me first, and asked about not only myself, but also South Korea. The surprising thing was many Ameri-cans already knew about Korea.

I can make American friends while talking about Korean com-panies such as Samsung or LG, even Korean pop songs or mov-ies.

It made me have courage to reach out to them first, even though I get scared when I speak English.

However, there is something else I could feel.

Until I came to Jonesboro, I had no idea what a dry county was, or what the Bible Belt is. It was shocking to me that Walmart does not have any alcoholic beverages.

It was surprising that there are at least three or more Christian organizations on one campus.

Even though I am not that fa-miliar with U.S. history, I can see these two things are deeply re-lated.

Do not get me wrong. I am not talking about what is right or wrong.

However, this unique environ-ment has made me have two dif-ferent sides to myself.

When I talk to people who en-joy drinking, I can easily expose who I am and be active in conver-sation.

On the other hand, when I am with people who are religious and do not drink at all, I feel limited in the things that I can share with them in conversations.

However, that does not mean

that I am not truthful enough to people. I just do not want to of-fend others.

I know it might sound funny to you, but if you talk to someone while feeling like a sinner or a bad person, it can be hard to be the real you.

The problem is I cannot give up on either group of people. They are all nice friends of mine. I have never thought of choosing one group over the other.

Being different does not repre-sent being wrong. We do not have any right to judge other people, religions or cultures.

Everyone has their own back-ground.

When we are ready to embrace different people, we can all look forward to better relationships. That is what I have gained here at ASU.

Dohyung Lee is a junior com-munication studies major of Seoul, South Korea.

I was fortunate. I was given a golden opportunity to come back to college after 40 years to com-plete my undergraduate work.

If I knew then what I know now, I would have had a different strategy the first time around.

Most college students are prob-ably thinking about taking courses that will give them a good founda-tion in their chosen profession, in the hope that they will get a good job in some big company that will take care of them with benefits, insurance, vacations and all the other perks of corporate employ-ment.

There is nothing wrong with this strategy, it is just very limited thinking, something we have been trained to do in our education and media content.

After living in the ‘real world’, raising a family and now coming back to college in my 60s, here are some tips I offer to anyone who wants to think more creatively about their future.

First, choose coursework that will be lifetime tools in your box that you can profit from anywhere you go, not just courses simply to fulfill a major, although that is im-portant, too.

In choosing these tools, think about what you could do right af-ter college on your own, self-em-ployed, perhaps part-time.

Think about what you really love to do, find a way to make a living at it, take the courses that will give you the tools to accom-plish this, then do it!

Sure, in the beginning you might have to work for someone else, but if you have the entre-preneurial spirit, then go for it.

Dreams take energy to realize.A few simple introductory

business courses are a good idea for each and every student, for self-employment may be in your future and these tools are most important to that end.

Even if a business of your own is not in your future, you may well have a family and household someday, and the business courses can help prepare for a family and household as well.

The whole purpose of this mes-sage is to empower the reader, to think creatively, individually and

entrepreneurially. This path may not be for ev-

eryone, but for those who feel a resonance with the message, trust your intuition now and in all your future business and life plans.

God be willing in all these fu-ture plans that success and hap-piness is achieved in the business and economic realm of life.

Sanford Pass is a senior in-terdisciplinary studies major of Jonesboro.

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Our ViewCompleting teacher evaluations is essential

It’s finals week. A time of stress, lack of sleep and not knowing what day it is. We’re tested on all of the information, both essen-tial and trivial, that we think we have absorbed over the course of the last three months.

While we might think of the next five days as the biannual D-Day of academia, we’re not the only ones being evaluated for our progress this semester.

If you’re paying attention to your student email account – like a good student should— in-between the messages about signing up for a check out time for winter break and the Spotify notifica-tions you’re too lazy to turn off, there are constant reminders to fill out teacher evaluation forms.

Unlike academic years gone by, students are no longer re-quired to fill out a pink scantron in class giving their evaluation of a professor or other level of professor we had that semester.

While you might see it as another email to be dumped uncer-emoniously into the trash file, these teacher evaluations are vital to the ever-changing landscape of our education at ASU. We all have our own gripes about how a teacher lectured or the type of assignments that were assigned – even though we knew about them since the first day of class and we lost our syllabus by week two.

Professors, tenured or not, ideally show up to class every day because they want to help through the rigors of our chosen ma-jor – and those pesky gen eds. If they want to keep their jobs and continue to improve their curriculum in order to provide future students the best class environment possible, they need their cur-rent students help.

Just like with the old scantron format, the entire process is done anonymously. So if you have a lingering gripe about the class, your professor won’t know it’s you.

It might take a few minutes out of one day to give your thoughts on a class you devoted months to, but it will benefit our school for many semesters to come.

“Our View” is written by the editorial staff. The opinions are not necessarily reflective of the student body, faculty or administration of Arkansas State University.

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“Until I came to Jones-boro, I had no idea what a dry county was, or what the Bible Belt is.”

- Dohyung Lee

“In choosing these

tools, think about what

you could do right after

college on your own,

self-employed, perhaps

part-time.”

- Sanford Pass

Student encourages others to work for themselves

Students must break from social prejudices

“He has no idea •

that two women are

making out beside

him.”

“Did Adam and Eve •

have belly buttons?”

“Can you believe I’ve •

been here 3 years?

Still haven’t been in

the library.”

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While the majority of ASU fans were fixated on the ASU football championship Saturday, the Arkansas State Red Wolves Men’s Rugby Club won the USA Rugby College 7s Na-tional Championship Saturday at Penberthy Sports Complex in College Station, Texas.

Beating Life University, its long time rival, 21-7, the Red Wolves finished with a perfect run of 6-0 through the week-end.

The victory over Life for the national title would be the first national title ASU has seen since 1970. In a press release ASU’s interim head coach Alex Houser said, “Our players could not be happier after winning today, the guys did a great job. They never let up and really controlled the game late.”

Dylan Carrion opened the match with a try after a penalty called against Life, giving Carrion the opportunity to sneak past defenders for the try. ASU you would start with a 7-0 lead with a conversion by Zinzan Elan-Puttick.

Life had several chances of scoring, while both teams trad-ed turnovers for several minutes. Life would finally get some points on the board when ASU’s Steyn Benade was penalized for crushing Life’s Joe Cowley off the ball.

After Benade’s penalty, Life retained possession putting the score at 7-7 with a conversion from Joe Cowley. The tied score broke just before half as senior Zac Mizell found senior Shaun Potgieter took the ball in for the try. Elan-Puttick would get the conversion giving the Red Wolves a 14-7 lead over life.

During the second half, Life’s defense pumped up the inten-sity forcing the Red Wolves into their own territory, but Life’s penalties allowed the Red Wolves to take control as the pack forced pressure on defense.

“I was really impressed with our defense this weekend, and Life, they have done that to us the last few times we’ve

played them in the 7s games. I just kind of wanted to put pres-sure on them and force them into some uncharacteristic er-rors,” Houser said.

ASU would take the game with a try from Elan-Puttick as he took a broken play into what would work in the Red Wolves favor.

“We were going to bounce it back to the forwards, because they were already out there, but Zac Mizell was being double teamed and Dylan gave me the ball and I just went with it be-cause we were kind of under pressure,” Elan-Puttick said.

Sending the ball wide, Elan-Puttick penetrated a hole and cutting past Life defenders getting to the post giving the Red Wolves the 21-7 lead over Life.

The championship marks the first time Arkansas State has ever beaten Life in 7s. Life is the only team to ever beat ASU in 7s. Life upset ASU in the 2011 and 2012 South Indepen-dent Rugby Conference Championship and the 2011 National Semifinals.

Mizell was named Most Valuable Player of the Tourna-ment, while Potgieter, Elan-Puttick and Dean Gericke were all selected as All-Tournament Team Members.

“I could not be more proud of this group, Zac, Shaun, Dean and Zinzan are all deserving of the awards they have received, but it was a total team effort. Everyone has worked very hard and their efforts have paid off,” Houser said.

The Red Wolves will be back for its 2013 spring schedule. They will return to College state to play Texas A&M Feb. 2.

It’s becoming a familiar story in Jonesboro.

Arkansas State defeated Middle Tennessee 45-0 Saturday to capture its second straight outright Sun Belt championship in front of a school announced 31, 243 fans, making it the largest crowd ever for a game at Liberty Bank Stadium.

Accompanied by the sound of the Black Eyed Pea’s “I Gotta Feeling” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing,” first-year head coach Gus Malzahn, along with Athletic Director Terry Mohajir, accepted the Sun Belt Conference championship trophy from Commissioner Karl Benson in front of a sea of ASU fans.

“This is Next Level right here,” Malzahn said to fans that haven’t seen consecutive conference titles won in Jonesboro since the 1985-86 seasons.

“I really felt like our guys played their best game of the year in the biggest moment,” said Malzahn. “They’ve bought into what we’re doing and we’re playing our best football right now when we need to be.”

Senior ShowcaseThe Red Wolves (9-3, 7-1) scored

touchdowns on each of their first six drives, and scored every time they visit-ed the red zone while earning more than 500 yards of offense.

Playing in his final home game as ASU’s starting quarterback along with 20 other seniors, Ryan Aplin started by completing his first six passes before going on to toss three touchdowns and 238 yards and only missing on two of his 21 pass attempts. The Tampa Bay,

Fla. native also ran for another 64 yards and a 4-yard touchdown in the game’s opening drive.

“I think this is the best all around game I’ve ever been apart of,” said Aplin, who ranked Saturday as the No. 1 experience for him in his three years as ASU’s starting quarterback.

“We were up 45-0 with 10 minutes left in the game and (the fans) all stayed,” Aplin said.

Aplin was relieved by freshman Fredi Knighten with 10:56 left in the game to loud cheers from the record December crowd.

The Blue Raiders (8-4, 6-2) attempt to answer the Red Wolves first score ended with Logan Kilgore throwing a pick to wide open senior linebacker Nathan Herrold, who took the ball turnover from the ASU 22 to the Raider’s own 33 for a 45-yard return.

“(Defensive Coordinator) John Thompson did a great job mixing it up. (MTSU) thought we were in one-coverage, he changed it and Nate Herrold is an unbelievable leader. He’s like a coach on the field and that was a huge play because they had the ball in our territory,” Malzahn said.

Herrold finished the regular season with three interceptions and 109 tackles, making him the first ASU defensive player with 100 tackles since 2007.

Seniors Josh Jarboe and Kedric Murray also got in on the action, each catching 6-yard touchdowns passes, while Jarboe became the eighth ASU player in history to record 100 career catches.

“When you win a conference title, you have to think about the players. We had some leaders that won last year…we didn’t have a whole lot of them. But the ones that we did have led this group,” Malzahn said.

Saturday’s game was the last home game for many seniors who have played through three different coaching staffs in three years, starting with Steve Roberts, then Hugh Freeze, before ending their careers with ASU’s program with Gus Malzahn’s goal of taking ASU to the “Next Level.”

“I think the skies the limit for this program,” Aplin said. “We’ve kind of brought these young guys under our wing and taught them this is how it needs to be. Those 4-8 seasons are not fun.”

A Runner’s SeasonFive plays after Herrold’s interception,

junior David Oku got behind a convoy of blockers and dived into the south end zone to make it 14-0 ASU with 7:07 left in the first period.

The junior, who joined the Red Wolves

after sitting out of the league for a year after two seasons at Tennessee, finished with 102 yards and one touchdown, making him the first ASU player with 1,000 yards rushing since 2008.

“That was the goal for the year. I remember when I came down for a visit and Ryan hosted me, he said ‘If you come here, the goal is a thousand’,” Oku recounted. “Being out for a year you didn’t know what to expect.”

Freshman Rocky Hayes was handed the ball a season high 12 times Saturday night on his way to 61-yards and one touchdown that made it 35-0.

A Rare Shutout In the Blue Raider’s first shut out loss

of the season, MTSU was never in the game, committing three turnovers and punting five times while never making it past the Red Wolves own 41-yard line.

Kilgore finished the game with 114 yards passing while a running game led by Jordan Parker bare cracked the century mark with 103 yards.

After the Raider’s failed to convert a second 4th down conversion in one drive, Aplin found junior Julian Jones, the Red Wolves most reliable deep-ball threat, wide-open ahead of one defender for a 59-yard score making it 28-0 with 9:41 left in the first half.

“I don’t think we were ever in it to say there was a turning point,” said MTSU Head Coach Rick Stockstill

ASU’s win Saturday cut the Raider’s lead in the all-time series to 5-9 and was the last time the two teams will play in the foreseeable future with the Raiders announcing their departure for Confer-ence USA with Florida Atlantic earlier in the week.

Ashley Helliwell| Sports EditorSenior Nathan Herrold celebrates after making a tackle.

Shine Huang| Staff PhotographerFreshman Rocky Hayes drives past an MTSU defender. Hayes finished Saturday’s blow out with 52 rushing yards and one touchdown.

DANIEL MCFADINOPINION EDITOR

Same song, second verse

Ashley Helliwell| Sports EditorSenior Ryan Aplin throws the ball during Saturday’s shutout against MTSU. Saturday’s match up was his final game at Liberty Bank Stadium.

Rugby 7s win nationalsASHLEY HELLIWELL

SPORTS EDITOR Quick Facts:-First ASU National Championship since 1970.-Beat Life University 21-7-National Championship win marked the first win against Life in the sevens division. -Spring 2013 schedule will begin Feb. 2 against Texas A&M

DEJA VU, Continuedcoming off a 11-2 season

after going undefeated in conference play then losing to Northern Illinois in the MAC championship game 44-37 in over time. The Jan. 6 bowl will be the Flashes’ first since the 1972 Tangerine Bowl.

“It’s a bowl game. I’ve been in those seasons where we’re sitting on the couch watching the game saying ,‘that should’ve been us right there.’ We’re in one, so I’m happy for it,” Herrold told KAIT Sunday night. “I watched the game Friday knowing there was the potential that we would play one of the two in the GoDaddy.com Bowl.”

Despite going to a bowl game for consecutive years, there was much outcry from ASU students following Sunday’s announcement of the bowl invite.

“I am proud of the team for the season they have had, but I’m disappointed with the selection,” said Matt Sindelar, a senior sports management major of Greenwood. “I am disappointed in the commissioner of the conference and how the bowl selections for the entire conference looks.”

The Red Wolves are one of four Sun Belt teams, including Western Kentucky (Little Ceasers Bowl), Louisiana-Monroe (Independence Bowl) and Louisiana-Lafayette (New Orleans Bowl), to be invited to a bowl game. The four team total is a Sun Belt record.

Fans hoped ASU would be released from its contractual

obligation to the Mobile based bowl with the chance to be invited to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, which is less than two hours away from Jonesboro.

Reports have stated ASU was released from the contract but the Liberty Bowl then chose Iowa State out of the Big XII to take the remaining slot. Reasons surrounding this choice include Iowa State’s distance, which could mean higher revenue for area hotels and ISU’s membership to a BCS conference.

Even with some fan dissatisfaction, there are those, like Kyle Whittington, a senior biology major of Memphis, who are happy just to be going to a bowl game.

“A bowl game in general is a great experience for our players and coaches. It will be a nationally televised game against Kent State who is currently ranked,” Whittington said. “Two years ago, I remember hoping for a 6-6 season, only to get my hopes dashed more than a few times. Now, we get a bid to a bowl game to play a really good team and people are angry?”

Tickets are already on sale for the bowl game at astateredwolves.com or they can be purchased at the ticket office in the Convocation Center.

The 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Jan. 6 at Ladd-Peebles Stadium and will be shown on ESPN.

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