Do Not Put David Mullins in the ETSU Buccaneers Hall of Fame
Including him in the 2020 class was a disgrace. Here’s why.
One of the frustrations of following East Tennessee State athletics is the administration’s insistence to tell you how great everything is, even when things aren’t.
Case in point, the out-and-out shameful announcement David Mullins would be inducted in to the ETSU Buccaneers Hall of Fame on December 23, 2020.
Mullins tenure as athletic director was a complete disaster. A typical Peter Principal hire; an in-house tennis coach hired as athletic director after the three previous athletic directors that worked under President Paul Stanton found they could not.
At the time of Mullins’ promotion I noted on the social media of the time he was the sort of hire a university would make if they were to drop football, which ETSU did only four months later.
Mullins will always be looked at as the athletic director who dropped football at ETSU. Yes, ultimately such a decision is made above him, but the fact of the matter is he didn’t do anything to stop the decision, he wasn’t able to get a 2007 movement to restore the program to succeed, and he ran the department in a way that championed smaller sports ahead of the sports that draw fans.
