Brown has a Super Bowl ring, was the secondary coach during the Salad Days of Bucs football, and is doing some nice things in the USFL. Why didn’t we hear more about him when he was in Johnson City? If one wishes to examine the demise of East…

He’s the best football player ETSU has had since Gerald Sensabaugh. Yet few recognize him as such, and the reason why is likely also a reason for the Buccaneers’ football and basketball demise. An injustice has been corrected. A wrong has become a right. Tyree Robinson, the best player ETSU…

The up-and-comer has arrived. But what will he deliver? The reason ETSU Richard Sander was brought back as athletic director was because he has had the Midas touch when it comes to hiring men’s basketball coaches. He’s never hired a men’s basketball coach that didn’t win 20 games in a…

In the Tri-Cities, sports stories generally don’t get bigger than the hiring and firing of an ETSU basketball coach. Here’s how the local media handled it. There is not a more glamorous position in Tri-Cities sports than ETSU men’s basketball coach. So when ETSU fires their men’s basketball coach, you’d…

Athletic Director Richard Sander historically always hires the best. He’s back now to find the man who will lead the Buccaneers back to prominence. Who will be ETSU’s next men’s basketball coach? Athletic director Richard Sander has a track record of hiring good coaches. He hired Steve Forbes to lead…

It simply had to happen It’s refreshing Desmond Oliver is no longer the head coach at ETSU. Refreshing not in that a man has lost his job. But refreshing in that ETSU’s historic demeanor of telling everyone everything is sensational when it isn’t, so prevalent under former athletic directors David…

Is changing the culture of ETSU men’s basketball more important than winning games? This is the first time in ten years the Buccaneers have lost 20 games in a season. The reason ETSU went 10–22 that year is because two of the best players on the roster, Marcus Dubose and…

UNC-A’s Mike Morrell will be a local favorite to be the Bucs’ new head men’s basketball coach. But he’s not the one Richard Sander should, or likely will, target if and when a coaching change is made. My gut tells me ETSU’s men’s basketball team is going to make a…

ETSU is honoring their former players by not honoring them at all. So much of East Tennessee State’s identity is trying to play both sides of the fence. Take, for instance, the way they tried to handle the controversy surrounding the men’s basketball team kneeling for the national anthem in…