I was thinking about when the new President of the University reinstates football and a decision has to be made on a new stadium. Now I am assuming that (someday) the basketball arena will be built approximately across from the dome facing State of Franklin. The parking garage would be somewhere around the tennis courts. I noticed that there is a block of land located between the Industrial Arts building and Lucille Clement Hall. It is up on a hill and is situated north/south. There are two brick building which used to be homes but are now University property but they could be re-located to the East side of the campus. This looks to me to be a great place for a stadium which would be close to mid-campus and could be serviced by the parking garage. The home grand stands and the press box could be located on the west side, facing east, with a panoramic view of the mountains. The only resevation I had was if the lot was wide enough for a field and grand stands as it is hard for me to estimate the dimensions by just looking but it possibly could be large enough. This was just an idea I had for the return of football and I was wondering if anyone else had considered this piece of land as a possible site for a stadium?
Before we discuss that, perhaps you'd like to discuss how nobody knows who the President is going to be, yet you have him or her automatically bringing back football.
Yes I was assuming that the President would be pro football. I just cannot entertain the thought of another one like Stanton so I made that assumption on purpose! Surely the school would not be dumb enough to get another anti football leader. Surely.
Yes they are that stupid, and don't call me Shirley.
People in academia educate themselves to the point of being stupid. I had a teacher in high school who did that. He was so book intelligent that he was a moron, he just wasn't as smug as the morons in the administration building. It makes me wonder if they are so smug that they stick their heads up their asses to smell their own farts.
I hate to be a bearer of bad news but the word on the street is the football issue will have no influence on the selection of ETSU's next president. It was said that the no one in Nashville, including the governor, cared about ETSU football or the return of it. It was also said that paulie was going to have a big influence in the selection.
Yes, our upper East Tennesse representatives say they care about football, but thats about it. The football supporters are not going to get any help from ETSU, the chamber of commerce, very little from the Johnson City media and very little from the community because they have been brain washed by propaganda from paulie and mullins.
Well, what have I been saying for years?
I hate to be a bearer of bad news but the word on the street is the football issue will have no influence on the selection of ETSU's next president. It was said that the no one in Nashville, including the governor, cared about ETSU football or the return of it. It was also said that paulie was going to have a big influence in the selection.
Yes, our upper East Tennesse representatives say they care about football, but thats about it. The football supporters are not going to get any help from ETSU, the chamber of commerce, very little from the Johnson City media and very little from the community because they have been brain washed by propaganda from paulie and mullins.
For the sake of conversation lets go out on a limb and say that Obama wins the presidency in the fall and offers Bredesen a cabinet level position or other post that he cannot refuse and the governor moves on. That would leave ETSU's own Ron Ramsey as the interim governor. Would Ramsey be any more likely to make football a part of the discussion?
Obama hasn't got a chance
I hate to be a bearer of bad news but the word on the street is the football issue will have no influence on the selection of ETSU's next president. It was said that the no one in Nashville, including the governor, cared about ETSU football or the return of it. It was also said that paulie was going to have a big influence in the selection.
Yes, our upper East Tennesse representatives say they care about football, but thats about it. The football supporters are not going to get any help from ETSU, the chamber of commerce, very little from the Johnson City media and very little from the community because they have been brain washed by propaganda from paulie and mullins.
For the sake of conversation lets go out on a limb and say that Obama wins the presidency in the fall and offers Bredesen a cabinet level position or other post that he cannot refuse and the governor moves on. That would leave ETSU's own Ron Ramsey as the interim governor. Would Ramsey be any more likely to make football a part of the discussion?
My opinion is no he isn't. What's in it for him if he wants to be elected governor? The state's economy is in the tank, and the state budget is also. Those two issues will most likely consume the next governor.
Obama hasn't got a chance
Hey gold, did it bother you that McCain had 7 houses?
Nah, me either. What really is of concern to me is that he is so old he couldn't even remember how many houses he had!!! 
bucfan81, if I understand you correctly, the area you're referring to is where the new tennis center is going to be built, or in that vicinity.
Ooops, I did not know that. Anyway, it looked like a good mid-campusy place to put a stadium. In any event, there are plenty of parking lots near the tennis courts that could be used to get us playing football again.
To my understanding, the two locations ETSU was considering were on Jack Vest Drive and by the Buccaneer Court apartments.
ETSU considered two locations? Was this the "kitchen cabinet" putting forth the locations or Jerry Robertson making suggestions?
Please remember this hand picked group of cronies is the same bunch that tried to pass off a Spartanburg, S.C. high school football stadium rendering as the new home for ETSU football.
Unless someone powerful or some powerful group puts forth real monies, promotes their plans thru the media and challanges ETSU to bring back football, ETSU football is dead, dead, dead. The new president is not going out on a limb without bigtime support. He would be committing political suicide.
When I am President at etsu, I promise to pave the tennis courts and put in parking decks. Then I promise to turn the Golf Center in to my own private get-away for my afternoon naps. I also promise the put the soccer complex to good use for a practice field for football, but I'll add a roof 'cause we need an indoor practice facility. Then I'll implode the Dome and will build the most incredible football/basketball complex the world has ever seen.
I should be President because I have vision, experience (at least in terms of the qualifications that the Repubs have established for the Veep job), and the intestinal fortitude to close the borders and build a wall around our campus.
Academics will be just fine because we'll get back to teachin' and worrying less about which mitral valve conference we'll be sending the department chair to this month.
Republicans taking serious hits on this board!
Well, okay, the party can stand it.
All I'm going to say on the stadium is I agree with you, ten. That hastily constructed stadium drawing they gave people was so transparent, and I mentioned it when it was drawn up.
However, at countless meetings discussing the possible resurection of football, the two sites I mentioned were the sites discussed.
Now, the fact the Buccaneer Court location would have required the new stadium to be a bowl, and the fact the drawing presented to the public was not a bowl, well . . .
The new stadium should be built on the southwest quadrant of University Parkway and S. Roan St., behind the shopping center on the land east of Pine Oaks Golf Course. It is convenient to campus and entry/exit is easy on the parkway, S. Roan and I-26. This would minimize road infrastructure requirements. Beautiful piece of land.