(10-21-2021 12:52 PM)Buc76 Wrote:  ETSU has the amenities, except the additional seating needed for the football stadium, and all the intangibles, a larger metro area, located in a growing City, an interste system an airport and a populace that loves and supports athletics.

How many of our peer Institutions do you have to look at to understand it can and has been done by smaller institutions, with lesser assets than ETSU.

Last nights attendance at the App State/Coastal Carolina game in Boone, N C for a Wed night game on ESPN...31,000. Imagine the money spent in Boone yesterday and the national exposure that was garnered by
Boone and App State with the ESPN broadcast.

ETSU was in the same conference and larger than APP State. Coastal Carolina started football in 2003. Both institutions have been ranked in top 25 FBS. Both Institutions are located in smaller markets.

They found a way and their [/align]results speaks volumes.

I hate to keep bringing this up...............................but why are we where we are, and not in that conversation? 4 words: paulie and dave mullins.
It's that simple (almost). Most of us knew at the time how devastating dropping football would be in the long run. It turns out to maybe have been even worse than we could have imagined. We got on a COMPLETELY different track, of course, and left in the dust. It was a truly transformational point in time, and not in a good way. I suggested years ago on this board that ALL new hires go thru a short class entitled "Mistakes We've Made", in order to try and not repeat the errors of the past. I make that suggestion again, now with even more evidence to learn from. And I REALLY want somebody in media to interview paulie about this. It needs to happen.

We can't go back in time, but we dang well better make this a lesson that we never ever ever forget.