Category: East Tennessee State Buccaneers
Southern Conference targets VMI, ETSU, Mercer
During a conference call Thursday that lasted about 20 minutes, the Southern Conference made major progress toward adding new members to replace the departing College of Charleston, Appalachian State and Georgia Southern.
Commissioner John Iamarino w… more »
Former UT coach helping restart program at ETSU
Former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer is returning to college football to help restart the program at East Tennessee State.
Fulmer, 62, will serve as a consultant and special assistant to athletic director Richard Sander as East Tennessee State relau… more »
ETSU Struggles With Its Place in the Sun
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Life in the Atlantic Sun Conference has not been kind to East Tennessee State University’s men’s basketball – the school’s lone remaining flagship program following the elimination of Buccaneer football in 2003.
In the past five… more »
BFFF's Attention on Getting Right New President at ETSU
JOHNSON CITY -- The Buc Football and Friends Foundation held its annual strategy session Saturday morning at the Best Western Motel in Johnson City and came to one conclusion regarding bringing football back to the school: All efforts need to be focused… more »
Godfrey: ETSU Football Not Dead; It's Just Sleeping
JOHNSON CITY -- Some people expected East Tennessee Football to be dead by now, but nearly five years after Jonathan Godfrey kicked the game-winning field goal with two seconds to play in what was the last Buc football game played to date, Godfrey said… more »
ETSU Football: A Game-Time Decision
Student reluctance leads to an ETSU punt on the issue of a revived football program.
Five years ago, tiny Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La., revived a scholarship football program that had lain dormant for 18 seasons. The impact? Acco… more »
An ETSU Football Recovery Could Be In New Conference
The return of football to East Tennessee State University may be on the horizon.
But if football eventually does make a comeback at ETSU, it could look much different than it did when the Buccaneers’ now-dormant program played its final game, a last-… more »
ETSU Lost Its Soul When it Lost Football, Critics Say
Gregg Stubbs’ eyes burn hard and bright. His lightly aged face is pulled tight. His hands swim and cut through air.
Then all motion stops. The room goes still. Stubbs looks outward and breathes deep. Seconds pass.
Suddenly, the rage returns. Stubb… more »
E-mail may have sealed ETSU-SoCon split
ETSU's decision to drop football appeared to have more serious, far-reaching consequences than ETSU president Paul Stanton thought.
A university-created task force, combined with years of detailed planning, numbers crunching and soul searching, a… more »
