(01-11-2012 10:29 PM)abuc90 Wrote:  Stanton did some great things while at ETSU. I will not deny that. He found ways to fund the projects he thought were important and they were quite ambitious (new dorms, pharmacy school, etc.). My problem is that football was deemed simply impossible to fund. Bottom line is this...if Noland believes football is important then it will happen, it he doesn't then it won't.

Noland is a university president, i.e., a politician. If there is enough community support for football, it will happen, if there isn't it will not.

If you don't have enough community support, you won't have enough money. If you don't have enough money, well, that makes his decision easier.


Stanton already did the hard part, he killed it. Noland's decision to start up football again or not is easier.

1. If he is looking to move on after a few years, he could start up football and while it still has that new car smell (3 years) and a few people are actually attending games, he could ride that to the job he has been groomed for (UT, something in Nashville). By doing this he could catch the wave of sentiment and ride it out of town, leaving the next poor SOB to handle the anvil around their neck.

2. If he is looking to actually run the university for awhile he will refrain from placing the anvil around his own neck.