By Kelly Hodge
Press Managing Sports Editor
khodge@johnsoncitypress.com

If football returns at East Tennessee State, it may very well lead the Bucs back to the Southern Conference.
Speaking at a Friday morning news conference on campus, university president Paul Stanton spelled out a number of steps for reinstatement of a football program by 2010 as blueprinted in a task force report. Fundraising will dictate the progress of those efforts, but if and when the program becomes viable, ETSU will begin plans to leave the Atlantic Sun Conference, said Stanton.

I really ought to learn to keep my mouth shut on stuff like this.

But this is a misleading article.

I had that ETSU would be looking for a new conference if this went through two months ago.

But, instead of saying "This could mean we go to the So Con (So Con? Why not build a REALLY big football stadium and lobby for the SEC?!!?)"- why don't you talk to some contacts about this bad blood that is likely still there?

Instead, all his quotes are from ETSU people.