Coach Moore almost ready to run
Coach Jerry Moore said that he’ll be ready to run sprints by the time Appalachian State’s preseason football camp rolls around.
“I’m looking forward to racing CoCo,” said the 70-year-old Moore, who had knee-replacement surgery on both knees Dec. 28 and was up and moving relatively well just a few days after. His challenge was to speedy receiver CoCo Hillary, who also is recovering from knee surgery.
It was a tough week for Moore when he had the surgery done, however. His mother died two days before, at age 88 in Moore’s hometown of Bonham, Texas.
“We went to the funeral service – it was a terrific, perfect service – and left as soon as it was over, got to Charlotte about 7 o’clock on Sunday night and had surgery about 10 Monday morning.” Moore said. “It’s all been really good since, the rehab and everything.”
Moore said that the surgery was something that he’s wanted to do, given that both knees having bothered him for some time.
“I felt like I set us back, held us back, at Montana a little bit, because I was limping around and so gimpy in that hotel,” Moore said. “That’s a bad thing for those kids to see 24 hours before we’re getting ready to go play. It might not have affected them, but it affected me. I wanted to get it fixed so I took care of it.”