(04-26-2019 12:57 PM)fsurookie911 Wrote:  Noland is staying!

Yes!!!!!

This better not be fake news

100% true. ETSU has released a statement.

Great News

JC Press's report:

Noland staying and they like it!

I think this is the biggest and best news we could have received! Bigger and more important than any single coach staying or leaving. This is huge not only for the school but for the whole region. Thank you Dr. Noland!

UT named their chancellor today. He likely withdrew yesterday when told he wasnt selected. Still good news for ETSU.

Plowman from Nebraska will be Chancellor

I believe he was their number one choice from the beginning and when he turned them down they went to their number two candidate. Good for them and fantastic for us!

This is huge for both athletics and academics at ETSU. I hope he is still there if and when my daughter attends ETSU in 3 more years!


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We can't overstate how great this news is for the university and community. Dr. Noland is an incredible leader for the school and the region. I'm pleasantly shocked to hear he is staying with us as it sounds like the Knoxville job was his for the taking. It will continue to be a pleasure to see where his vision takes ETSU.

Lots of work to do to make ETSU this regions university, this was page 7 news in the Kingsport paper.

(04-27-2019 08:56 AM)BucDoctor Wrote:  Lots of work to do to make ETSU this regions university, this was page 7 news in the Kingsport paper.

Word is Noland bowed out . . . Because he is aiming for the UT system presidency (over UTK / UT Chattanooga etc.) Boyd - the current president - is in his last year as an interim. Noland was told that if he accepted the UTK job . . . That they would not want him to leave after one year for the president’s position

(04-27-2019 02:12 PM)Bucfreak23 Wrote:  Word is Noland bowed out . . . Because he is aiming for the UT system presidency (over UTK / UT Chattanooga etc.) Boyd - the current president - is in his last year as an interim. Noland was told that if he accepted the UTK job . . . That they would not want him to leave after one year for the president’s position

Good for us! Bad for them.

Good for now. Bigger question is are we dealing with Noland leaving again next year?

(04-28-2019 06:58 AM)Bucfreak23 Wrote:  Good for now. Bigger question is are we dealing with Noland leaving again next year?

Coming and going is now the new normal with college presidents, deans, faculty, coaches, and students? How stable is the Board of Trustees? Do members come and go there in rapid succession? Perhaps they can evolve into a stabilizing force by assuming all of the authority the system allows so as to maintain as much continuity as possible.

So if players can just transfer to another school then maybe Forbes method of recruiting from Juco ranks has merit?

(04-28-2019 06:20 PM)Bucfreak23 Wrote:  So if players can just transfer to another school then maybe Forbes method of recruiting from Juco ranks has merit?

Obviously it has some merit, or he wouldn't have been as successful here so far. But, as discussed elsewhere on this board, that creates (apparently), a sort of upside ceiling which wouldn't apply (in general) to the Woffords and Virginias of the world.