(03-20-2015 12:06 PM)ETSU-07 Wrote: ETSU has given plenty of fodder to the anti-football types that say it's a mistake. I have to say as a supporter of the program ETSU has given me plenty of reason to question if they're going to be able to pull things off. This is just another public embarrassment that gives doubters more reason to doubt. It reeks of incompetence.
It's incompetence because you've got an A.D. who's never done anything with football and was brought in specifically to clean house. That's apparent now with Murry, Karen, Barbie, and Sara Hacker slipping out the door to no fanfare. I'm surprised honestly that Tony Skole, Lindsey Devine, and JoAnn Paty still have jobs, but I guess you can't fire everyone at once. He's got a compliance guy in there that he didn't hire, and is dumber than a box of hammers. It's like in the movie Casino when Sam Rothstein told the councilman that either his son in law was in on the scam, or he was too dumb to know the difference. The compliance guy is an idiot. He's proven time and time again, and nobody is there to call his ass out on it.
Then we've got Scott Carter, who's a great guy and an awesome fundraiser, flesh presser, and all that, but his experience from an employment standpoint has been strictly on the business side of things, not the competition side. That's a problem. That's why we keep seeing missteps. Now I get the justification that FAU and FIU didn't have stadiums when they started, and Old Dominion was basically playing in a high school stadium and still is, but they were bigger. Both FAU/FIU have new stadiums, ODU has one in the works, as does ETSU.
It won't fail, for the first time ever there's money involved, so even with an administration who's having to learn from their mistakes in the public eye I firmly believe they got the hiring process for the staff done right. Experience at the head coach, one of the coordinators eats, sleeps, and breathes ETSU, the other has an insane amount of experience, former players, an SEC connection, and some NFL playing experience. That's a great thing.
Stay positive. Be as supportive as you can be, and offer suggestions. Dr. Sander seems really willing to at least listen to fans, which is a huge improvement over that pile of horse dung we had before him.