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Who Should ETSU Hire As Their Next Athletic Director?
This is the criteria for next year’s hire when Richard Sander’s interim tenure ends.
Who to replace Scott Carter as ETSU athletic director?
The good news with Carter’s resignation is that there are no more tentacles connected to the disastrous athletic directorship of David Mullins, whom Carter worked for in the early stages of his administrative career and even oversaw Mullins’ induction in to the ETSU Athletics Hall of Fame last year.
True, decisions on things like dropping football and changing conferences are made on the Presidential level of a university, but it is the Athletic Director’s job to tell his boss “uh, you know, if you do this, we’ll be kicked out of the conference.”
If Mullins knew that, he wasn’t able to convey it to then-President Paul Stanton.
But Mullins couldn’t even get the facilities Stanton wanted to be built completed on time.
He also wasn’t able to ever admit he was wrong. When Mullins’ hire of head men’s basketball coach Murry Bartow followed up the Bucs’ second straight NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearance with a 7–19 record against Division I competition the following season, Mullins extended Bartow’s contract.
