Is Saturday’s Game Tyree Robinson’s Last For ETSU?
The best player the Buccaneers have had since reviving football is severely underappreciated.
The greatest player of the post-revival era of East Tennessee State football may very well play his final game for the Buccaneers (4–1) at 6 pm at Mercer (4–2) Saturday night.
His name is Tyree Robinson. And if you have a problem with how the ETSU fan base treated their basketball team last season, just remember how Robinson, a bonafide National Football League prospect, was treated after his freshman season.
During head coach Randy Sanders’ first spring practice as football coach, Robinson, a defensive back, was participating in a “Hail Mary” drill.
Coaches don’t like it when defensive backs, after intercepting such a pass, try to return it. The game is won. Why risk fumbling the ball away to the other team?
But, on the other hand, it’s practice and there’s no record of Chuck Noll reprimanding Glen Edwards after he returned his interception of a Roger Staubach Hail Mary pass that won Super Bowl X for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
So when Robinson returned a Hail Mary in practice, an incident ensued. It resulted in some sort of physical altercation from the coach, Robinson walking away and off the practice field, and Sanders receiving a letter…
