(12-23-2015 05:33 PM)Buc66 Wrote: (12-23-2015 05:15 PM)etsuandpurdue3 Wrote: (12-23-2015 02:44 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote: Hearing ETSU alums Marcus Satterfield and even CSU head coach Jamey Chadwell are in the mix.
I doubt Chadwell would leave for Tech at this point.
Why can't someone build a good football program at TN Tech? Good school, good facilities.
Good facilities? Are you talking about Tennessee Tech?
I was up there last year and it was the exact same crappy stadium they've had forever. Playing at Science Hill would be a serious upgrade for Tech. Stands are crumbling, zero amenities, worst press box I have ever been in (even worse than WCU's). On the upside, there is plenty of parking near the stadium.
Outside of being a good regional public university, there is absolutely nothing exciting about Cookeville or Tech and they have virtually no media interest (they don't even have regular press conferences after games, because most times there are no media representatives present).
They have had a full time AD for less than a decade (before the AD role was played by a professor on campus). In a word, they have never taken sports very seriously there. Which is why football is consistently average to bad and the basketball team hasn't been to NCAA tournament in 52 years.
Don't get me wrong, I am not trashing them out of spite, my father and grandfather are both TTU engineers (and I dated the daughter of a former head basketball coach).
Satterfield is also a former Mocs OC, so we are definitely pulling for him, but he will be pushing a large rock up a steep hill to get the Golden Eagles turned around
(BTW, 3 former UTC offensive assistants are now coaching OVC teams in Tennessee...Satt at TTU, Will Healy at APSU, and Jason Simpson at UTM)