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ETSU President Brian Noland’s Courtship With Tennessee Reinforces Subservience
But hey, the Bucs have taken three of five baseball games from the Vols!
This week has proven that while some colleges are in the shadow of their larger brethren, ETSU is subservient to Tennessee.
When Volunteers head men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes was being courted by UCLA, the feeling was, accurately or not, the job was ETSU coach Steve Forbes in waiting.
Now that ETSU President is one of four finalists for the Chancellor position at Tennessee, again, ask the locals and it’s only a matter of time before Brian Noland leaves Johnson City and goes to Knoxville.
If Noland lands the position, it will be a safe bet he’ll be the only chancellor in the world wearing orange bow ties. And it will fit in nicely with the Tennessee fans wearing checkerboard overalls to games.
It will also be a safe bet that if Noland doesn’t, ETSU fans will not have any problem or think it is disingenuous in any way that a man who next week will be part of an open forum at Tennessee will presumably be at Buccaneer basketball games playing cheerleader, as Noland regularly does, such as when he joined actual cheerleaders on the floor with athletic director Scott Carter during a time out at the Southern Conference men’s basketball…
