First off, Sean Rife writes that instead of raising athletic fees, ticket prices should be raised to sustain football.

http://media.www.easttennessean.com/medi...6694.shtml

That's actually not a bad idea. The problem, however, is that if you double ticket prices of basketball to pay for football, the basketball people want to know why they aren't getting all of the money they earned.

But it's a decent thought.

Number two- look who chimes in with a pro-football vote. It's our old friend Billy Taylor!

http://media.www.easttennessean.com/medi...6696.shtml

Taylor, by the way, is a former Bucs football player who later became the program's last ever defensive coordinator.

He also was a regular contributor to the only soconhoops board and had the honor of being the best friend of former PittsburghBucs math teacher Billy Cox.

My question is why that wasn't mentioned at the bottom of the letter- "The writer is a former ETSU football player and coach."

A lot of times you don't know that when you're a young student (QUICK- WHO WAS THE DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR OF THE BUCS IN 2003! It's not on the entrance exam, you know), so I'm not going to hold it against them too much.

And Taylor could have signed his credentials at the bottom of the letter.

But it would have been nice. And I hope that a lesson is learned for the future down there that if a similar letter is written, which all but reveals the writer is a former player or coach, they do a little research with the old football media guide and find out who the writer was.

Billy also had some memories in the War Wagon

Define "memories."