Mack Brown and his new coaching staff at Appalachian State University set the third week of January 1983 as their first big recruiting weekend after Brown officially began work in Boone just after the first of the year. They got about a dozen recruits safely ensconced in the opulent Broyhill Inn on the top of a crest overlooking the campus on Friday night and were ready for a full slate of tours, flesh-pressing and wooing the 17-year-olds on the idea of playing football for the Mountaineers.
They woke up Saturday morning to a foot of snow.