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Where Does Randy Sanders Really Stand as ETSU Head Football Coach?

Marky Billson
4 min readJan 9, 2021

He’s won a conference championship, yet his overall record is 11–13, and Marcus Satterfield has rebounded nicely after quitting Sanders’ staff. Is the third year Bucs coach champ or chump?

Marky Billson

After South Carolina’s hire of Marcus Satterfield as offensive coordinator, should 2021 be a make-or-break season for ETSU head football coach Randy Sanders?

Satterfield was Sanders’ first offensive coordinator. A former star receiver on the Bucs’ 1996 playoff team with FCS head coaching experience, Satterfield looked like a home run hire.

But he quit during his first spring practice in 2018, went to Baylor to reunite with Matt Rhule, who Satterfield had been Temple’s offensive coordinator under, and followed Rhule to the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers before becoming the Gamecocks offensive coordinator under new head coach Shane Beamer.

So up-and-coming coaches want Satterfield, and Sanders could not keep this coach in his fold.

That’s just not a good look for Sanders, whose coaching tenure at ETSU has been something parallel to Indiana Jones.

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Marky Billson
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