{"id":104694,"date":"2025-07-30T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104694\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:36:11","slug":"long-summer-days-strong-faith-and-an-unlikely-journey-the-best-from-joey-aguilar-at-tennessees-media-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104694\/","title":{"rendered":"Long summer days, strong faith and an unlikely journey \u2013 the best from Joey Aguilar at Tennessee\u2019s media day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Aguilar\u2019s mindset has been molded by his experiences throughout his college football career. In 2023 at <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/appalachian-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Appalachian State<\/a><\/b>, he went from backup to record-setting starter and led the Mountaineers to the Sun Belt Championship Game and a bowl victory for a nine-win season. He set the program\u2019s single-season records for passing yards (3,757), passing touchdowns (33), total offense (4,002), completions (293) and attempts (460).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But in 2024, his passer rating dropped nearly 20 points, from 151.62 (26th in the FBS) to 132.86 (76th), and his completion percentage and yards per attempt decreased, too. He threw 10 fewer touchdowns and four more interceptions. Appalachian State struggled to a 5-6 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWasn\u2019t the best,\u201d Aguilar said. \u201cI definitely put up a better season in \u201823. Tried to do a little too much, I would say, in \u201824, but, I mean, the past is the past. All you can do is learn from it and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued: \u201cIt just showed me like life can go (up) and life can go (down). In \u201823, it went here. In \u201824, it went here. It just showed me I\u2019ve got to just stay neutral in everything, in football and in just life. I can\u2019t get too excited on one thing and too down on another, so coming here, just like I said, just got to put my nose down and work, not worry about last season. Last season\u2019s last season. We\u2019re just focused on the people in this building and the team and go succeed for this season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aguilar\u2019s mindset has been molded by his experiences throughout his college football career. In 2023 at Appalachian State,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-104694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114941983706228250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}