Is there anything LESS relevant? If you follow the East Tennessee State men’s basketball team, you may not know the team’s up-to-date record. You may not know that the program has had just three losing records this century, and one of those was because their best player was kicked off…

Prior to Jan. 4, ETSU hadn’t lost at home to Western Carolina since 1996. Here are the stories of those two games and the lesson the struggling Oliver can learn from the only basketball coach to ever have ETSU nationally ranked. Last night the Western Carolina Catamounts men’s…

Many mistakes made by ETSU during the Don Riley era are being repeated in this one. For whatever reason, it seems ETSU doesn’t have a real connection with its sports history. Maybe it’s because it isn’t that glorious. No Buccaneers team has ever won a national championship, and…

It’s time to put this rather unflattering and completely false rumor to rest about the former ETSU football coach, who died this week at 89. The news of former East Tennessee State football coach Don Riley’s passing went by quietly. The Buccaneers’ sports information department didn’t release a statement on…

People didn’t see this year’s collapse coming, but it might be more than the coaching change or the departed stars from last year. How did the ETSU football team fall from a school-record 11 victory season in 2021 to 3–8 in 2022? Just two months ago it appeared…

The Buccaneers’ football and men’s basketball programs have gone from penthouse to outhouse in short order. The reason may not be so much a single individual but the area’s mindset itself. The demise of the East Tennessee State Buccaneers athletic program is a product of their insular environment. Their football…

The Southern Conference may not be the Southeastern, but both athletic programs play in Division I. Could ETSU finally be demanding the Tri-Cities recognize the Bucs and not their neighbors 100 miles south? If there’s one positive thing that may come out of the entire Simon Harris/Scott Carter situation at…

It’s bad enough East Tennessee State University head women’s coach Simon Harris kicked two of his players off his team and damaged their reputation for nothing. It’s bad enough Harris tried to make up ex post facto rules in order to defend his actions. It’s bad enough athletic…

This is the criteria for next year’s hire when Richard Sander’s interim tenure ends. Who to replace Scott Carter as ETSU athletic director? The good news with Carter’s resignation is that there are no more tentacles connected to the disastrous athletic directorship of David Mullins, whom Carter worked for in…