A newbie here, but...
Supposedly, Murry is Stanton's boy; so I guess in turn that makes him Mullins' boy as well.
I can't believe the hush that the former tennis coach was hired as athletic director. That should've garnered a Jim Mora "playoffs" type tirade from someone with a voice.
Of course, those with a voice won't use it for fear of damaging their rapport - or aren't going to use it, except to make theirselves look like an idiot (see: Meade, Bill and Helman, Don).
Lots of problems with the Ath. Department at ETSU and no one is holding them accountable. There should, shouldn't there?, be someone - with a public voice (ie: media member - radio, press, etc) holding these folks accountable, asking the questions, digging for answers.
Instead - and its fine - they'd rather cover the Big Orange. And like I said, thats fine, but the Johnson City Press is in Johnson City; not Knoxville. Same for the TimesNews and the Herald. Bill Meade's show is just worthless (and usually incorrect information filled) rants of his, and callers wanting to know about Dale Earnhardt Junior and this weeks upcoming Nascar race. Ron Bliss' website is more about prep sports and the Vols and Dr John Hancocks "inside" and incorrect information columns on UT.
I guarantee you that if someone held these folks accountable; there may be some changes to the problems.
But when Murry got the extension, the only stories I saw where the press releases. No questions posed to Mullins or Stanton like - "Um, Dave, Murry won one season with Eddie's kids and then stinks up the joint and wins 10 games last year, why does he deserve this extension?"
After this year, and another 10-win season (+/- error of 3 to 5 games), no one will ask Murry - "Murry, you blamed last season totally on Brad's foot injury. He returns, you have more available bodies, you get your talent back with another year of experience, and you have more talent than you did last year, why the poor season?"
The fans will probably not be able to change the debacle, unless they go straight to the Tennessee Board of Regents, but if the press in the Tri-Cities would take the role of accountability with this administration - maybe then something would give.
Or at least we wouldn't see in the paper one day "ETSU to drop football due to financial concerns" and then the next days see "ETSU Foundation to build clock tower"; "ETSU fund raiser makes its $XX million dollar goal for pharmacy school"; and "ETSU Athletics unveil $XX million dollar plan for facility improvement."
No wonder the folks in the Johnson City area are confused as heck, the administration puts smoke screens out in the press. And the press doesn't do its job. The press mainly treats ETSU like its buddy, its advertiser, and almost like a high school instead of a multi-million dollar institution of higher learning.
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