A list of potential coaching candidates for ETSU, and why Quarles failed. You know you’ve done a bad job when etsubucs.com is reporting you’ve been fired. Because historically, the ETSU sports website hasn’t always posted the news when they’ve fired coaches, keeping with their “everything is always wonderful…

Everyone wants George Quarles gone. But what about the defensive coordinator, unquestionably the most loyal man ETSU football has ever known? It’s hard to fathom any scenario in which George Quarles will be retained as head football coach of the East Tennessee State University Buccaneers in 2024. So…

Thirty-one years ago an ETSU victory against VMI was a turning point for the program. Now, the Buccaneers may have passed that torch back to the Keydets. Despite winning the Southern Conference football championship in the spring of 2021, there’s a feeling in the SoCon whenever you lose…

They’ve become nothing but apologists for a losing program. I cannot imagine a more irresponsible mainstream media than those who cover the East Tennessee State Buccaneers. “Kid gloves” does not even begin to describe the treatment the Buccaneers receive in the media. The ETSU football and men’s basketball…

And not just Scott Carter, either Ask the typical ETSU fan, or at least the one that comments on social media, and they’ll tell you the reason for the demise of ETSU athletics is former athletic director Scott Carter. A “Yes Man” hire, established years ago when he…

Possibly, though there may be a way out. Last week the NCAA raised the fee for a Football Championship Subdivision program wishing to join the Football Championship Subdivision from a cheap $5,000 to a whopping $5 million. Which likely means FCS programs are going to stay right where…

In 14 games under their new coach ETSU has gone from the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs to 4–10, culminating with the worst loss in program history last week. Every few minutes since late Saturday night I have checked the internet. Twitter. Message boards. www.wjhl.com. I don’t check…

Usually that’s said when it’s suggested the media is too critical. But when covering ETSU, the media isn’t critical enough. “What do we want from our media?” Former Tennessee head football coach Butch Jones asked this at a press conference early in the 2017 season when asked about the criticism…

Five years ago these two teams played a competitive game in the FCS playoffs. Now look at ’em. Saturday’s ETSU football opener at Jacksonville State will be a microcosm of how much the Buccaneers’ peers have passed them by. Five years ago the Bucs, fresh off their first…