http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/ne...-0002.html

http://media.mgnetwork.com/tri/documents/etsuoilers.pdf

http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/ne...-0004.html

http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/ne...-0003.html

This is good!! Not only did we lose a football team, we lost the Titans!

I take back a previous statement about someone in the tri-cities not having the backbone to do good, honest, fair investigative reporting. Now we'll see how long it takes before Brian Smith gets ran out of town for being a "trouble-maker."

I now hope this whole thing becomes a steam roller and more and more reporters come out and expose what we already know. It is going to take this kind of public pressure to make Dave and Paul to finally to the right thing.

Stubbs sounds to me like somebody who got hit by big lineman too many times! I'm disappointed that we dropped football too, but, why "trash" our alma mater and say that the school "has no vision" and imply that our university president is an idiot. And I hope he doesn't has any classroom influence (coaches are supposed to be educators too) as this "burn all bridges" attitude is pretty small thinking in my opinion.

I too am not a "burn the bridges" type of fan as I actively support the teams we have. I know many people, though, who feel like Coach Stubbs. I understand where they are coming from and respect their feelings as we all are hurt by the loss of football. It is good that these public statements are coming out as they can bring more and more pressure on the administration to allow football to be reinstated. I think it will work.

Seagrove- He's not trashing the program.

He's speaking the truth.

Stubs is right, and I applaud him.

"ETSU has no vision" is the understatement of the year

Yes I think saying "has no vision" is being very polite and diplomatic.

Ok. What's going on! Suddenly we have articles about dropping Football, lack of leadership at ETSU, and no vision. Why?

Is it part of a bigger picture? Why the Bristol and not Johnson city paper?

What's happening? I'm confused.

This is what is exciting to me....

The Herald Courier recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request with ETSU for all electronic and written correspondence sent or received by Stanton and ETSU Athletic Director Dave Mullins from Jan. 1, 2002 to Nov. 29, 2007, on ETSU athletics and/or football. It still is being processed.

ETSUfan1 Wrote:This is what is exciting to me....

The Herald Courier recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request with ETSU for all electronic and written correspondence sent or received by Stanton and ETSU Athletic Director Dave Mullins from Jan. 1, 2002 to Nov. 29, 2007, on ETSU athletics and/or football. It still is being processed.

As a Middle Tennessee fan, having followed ETSU dropping football, and having read those articles, I'm not sure I understand how Stanton and Mullins can walk around safely without a phalanx of body guards to protect
them from outraged Buc fans.

Well, Space, the reason is because this is the worst sports area on earth, and if you lived here that would be common knowledge to you.

The reason this is in the Bristol paper is because the Johnson City Press sportswriters who cover ETSU supported the idea to drop football.

And WXSM is too gutless to tell this stuff. Remember, Don Helman, who referred to himself as a "journalist" on a recent show, is paid to do the ETSU games. No way will he ever jeapordize that.

Bill Meade's lack of attention has many tiers. First, he is a UT grad and fan first and foremost, so ETSU is second tier to him, even though they are the home team.

Second, I remember during the "Glory Days" of ETSU hoops that there was as much ETSU basketball talk as anything on Sportsline.

What happened was the team started to lose, but more than that, when ETSU didn't give George Pitts an interview I think it created a divide because Meade lobbied for Pitts to get the job.

Now, I think Pitts wasn't qualified to get an interview, and when you consider the candidates Keener Fry brought in it was laughable to suggest Pitts would have been a better candidate.

However, a divide was cast. Remember, Meade has had several opportunities to be the ETSU play by play man since then but has always passed the role off to someone else.

So, I honestly believe to Meade, he thinks silence is the best revenge. I've always said bad pub is better than no publicity at all. You're still getting your name in the paper, and you're still deemed worthy enough to have attention cast upon you when you get bad publicity.

For these reasons, Meade ignores ETSU. Plus- if he really was to tell it like it is- it might jeapordize the contracts ETSU has with Citadel for men's hoops PBP.