Those who read the App State board probably have seen this. They're trying to deal with the TV Market issue in the conference realignment bind that they seem to be caught up in. But, notice in this argument where this guy places the Tri-Cities TV market --- ETSU is not on his mind, thus, ETSU athletics has no relevancy to him. He mentions other schools in NC TV markets with which ASU shares. Is this just him? How many more are like him when it comes to ETSU athletics and the Tri-Cities, Tennessee? Is this not a pathetic situation?

http://forums.delphiforums.com/appstate/...sg=39790.1

He's probably just talking in terms of football programs. It'd be pretty silly to freak out over something like that.

(05-03-2012 05:32 PM)Mister Consistency Wrote:  He's probably just talking in terms of football programs. It'd be pretty silly to freak out over something like that.

"Just talking in terms of football programs". Surely you jest. Of course he is, that's what's driving all this conference realignment. Freaking out you say? Pretty silly? Well, "something like that" is what ETSU cannot have a discussion about because they"re not in the game. ETSU is on the outside looking in. ETSU is irrelevant in this "something like that". With the App State folks now seeing the Tri-Cities as their territory, it screams irrelevancy for ETSU athletics. They would NEVER have gone there ten years ago. And, all of this conference reshuffling helps to highlight the pathetic hole ETSU athletics is in. As a faithful Buc fan, I am ashamed of my school and the dismal athletic position that Stanton and Mullins placed us -- a place that will be very, very difficult for Brian Noland to bring us out of.

Check back about four years ago when I wrote how the Elizabethton Burger King on Elk Ave. was posting messages about Appalachian State athletics on their sign.

Meanwhile, the pole on the McDonalds on University Parkway and Walnut Street no longer reads "GO BUCS."

66,

Do you realize if there were a four lane highway between Boone and Elizabethton it would take about 30-45 minutes to get to Boone? App is in three markets TV wise, especially for football. To this day it still pisses me off that the bell was rung in 2003, but we change the fact that it was rung. All we can do is work to unite people in getting it back, which is not an overnight process unless you own a construction business, have a pantload of bricks, mortar, and steel lying around with about 20-30 million dollars to get it up and running again.
Keep ya head up, I think it'll get there but Noland's got to play a little game first.

(05-04-2012 10:51 AM)Buccaneerlover Wrote:  66,

Do you realize if there were a four lane highway between Boone and Elizabethton it would take about 30-45 minutes to get to Boone? App is in three markets TV wise, especially for football. To this day it still pisses me off that the bell was rung in 2003, but we change the fact that it was rung. All we can do is work to unite people in getting it back, which is not an overnight process unless you own a construction business, have a pantload of bricks, mortar, and steel lying around with about 20-30 million dollars to get it up and running again.
Keep ya head up, I think it'll get there but Noland's got to play a little game first.

+1

(05-03-2012 07:47 PM)PittsburghBucs Wrote:  Check back about four years ago when I wrote how the Elizabethton Burger King on Elk Ave. was posting messages about Appalachian State athletics on their sign.

Meanwhile, the pole on the McDonalds on University Parkway and Walnut Street no longer reads "GO BUCS."

meaningless...

Sure.

But a non-existant highway that would make Elizabethton a drive that would STILL be more than three times than it is to Johnson City is meaningful?

Puh-lease.

I was listening to a talk show the other day. The show wasn't based in Knoxville, but the guy hosting the show spoke of how supportive the city was for the Volunteers because when he went to McDonalds, the "Golden Arches" were actually orange. That means something.

I'm sorry, but when the Bi-Lo in Columbia has a Gamecocks logo where the dash should be, it means something.

When I can go to Oakland here in Pittsburgh and see a Pitt Panthers logo on the Rite Aid, it means something.

And when you can go down Walnut Street and the businesses there can't even see the benefits of staying open to get the pre and post game crowds from the Minidome or even know what the Bucs' schedule is, when the Shamrock has taken off the ETSU football player off their building, and the people of Johnson City are all too often oblivious as to the goings on of the team(s), it means something when the McDonalds no longer has "Go Bucs" on the pole.

Especially when Cullowhee is in the middle of nowhere, the population is, what, 500 people (?) and the place is located 47 miles away from any real population center (Asheville) but the Hardees there is painted purple and the Catamounts are more welcome in the SoCon than ETSU is. That means something.

Really, how much are you making from the ETSU athletic department for being their good little shill on this board?

Stop bending the shaft, Slappy. Stop bending the shaft.

Charlie Cobb to include the Johnson City-Kingsport (Tenn) market in his campaign to get attention for ASU in its attempt to move to an FBS conference.



http://www2.journalnow.com/sports/2012/m...r-2245222/

(05-05-2012 03:19 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  Charlie Cobb to include the Johnson City-Kingsport (Tenn) market in his campaign to get attention for ASU in its attempt to move to an FBS conference.



http://www2.journalnow.com/sports/2012/m...r-2245222/

ASU appears to be in tough spot trying to balance what is a great football program (and a solid athletic program across the board) against the financial reality that its location and in-state competition for fans from Wake, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Western Carolina, East Carolina and UNCC cause. ASU has consistently sold more tickets than any other SoCon school, but its fan base is probably at the max now and I personally think that Cobb is grasping at straws if he thinks that he can add to that base from the upper east Tennessee region. One problem he has in trying to convince a FBS conference to take ASU is that, even with all of its success in football, the athletic program ran a budget deficit 5 out of 6 years from 2005 through 2010. That will not help its bid to move to an FBS conference, and if it does the best it can probably hope for is the Sun Belt which is pretty much the bottom of the heap. That will not do much to alleviate the financial issues.

(05-05-2012 04:08 PM)OldGrayDog Wrote:  

(05-05-2012 03:19 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  Charlie Cobb to include the Johnson City-Kingsport (Tenn) market in his campaign to get attention for ASU in its attempt to move to an FBS conference.



http://www2.journalnow.com/sports/2012/m...r-2245222/

ASU appears to be in tough spot trying to balance what is a great football program (and a solid athletic program across the board) against the financial reality that its location and in-state competition for fans from Wake, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Western Carolina, East Carolina and UNCC cause. ASU has consistently sold more tickets than any other SoCon school, but its fan base is probably at the max now and I personally think that Cobb is grasping at straws if he thinks that he can add to that base from the upper east Tennessee region. One problem he has in trying to convince a FBS conference to take ASU is that, even with all of its success in football, the athletic program ran a budget deficit 5 out of 6 years from 2005 through 2010. That will not help its bid to move to an FBS conference, and if it does the best it can probably hope for is the Sun Belt which is pretty much the bottom of the heap. That will not do much to alleviate the financial issues.

There are probably as many if not more ASU fans in Carter and Johnson County as there are ETSU fans.

ETSU athletics, can you say IRRELEVANT? In your own back yard!!!!!!!