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volfanbill
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Location: Johnson City
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hawkeye, i admire your efforts, but ETSU has tried to make football successful. They even made a playoff run or two in the final years of their existence. While the region is very much a football region, 90% of all the loyalty goes 100 miles west. Appy State doesn't have to compete with UT quite the same way ETSU does. Johnson City is not a college town like Knoxville, TN or Austin, TX or Ann Arbor, MI or even Boone, NC. The money that ETSU would have to spend on a football team, even if they played their games at (gasp) Spurrier Field, would never come close to matching they money they would have to spend. It's just not a good financial decision. ETSU is showing an effort to revitalize the good parts of ETSU and are even bringing in a pharmacy school. They are doing what they can to make ETSU a good, profitable school.

The pharmacy schools.

What do I always say, Hawk?

Doctors are EVIL!

Two things came to my mind when I read this post and the UT thread; first, what in the UT thread was not correct? Many of the people on that board hit the nail on the head with their comments. Second, I was wondering what the answers would be if someone went to the JC Mall and asked random people this question, "how did ETSU do in football this year?" What percentage would give a response of something other than "ETSU doesn't play football anymore."

Just random thoughts.

Am I the only one who is concerned that Paul Stanton and Co. are more focused on running East Tennisee State as a business and not enough at running it as a UNIVERSITY?????