A Matter of Loyalty- Why ETSU Should Hire Billy Taylor as Head Football Coach Posthaste!

5 min readDec 22, 2021

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In 2020 ETSU hesitated to promote the obvious successor to coach their basketball team and suffered accordingly. They’re doing the same thing now with the football program and it simply isn’t a good look.

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