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Former ETSU Buccaneers head men's basketball coach Desmond Oliver was just hired by the South Florida Bulls as an assistant. It's the latest in a long pipeline. Subscribe to Marky Billson's You Tube channel because nobody else knows all this stuff!

Imagine coming to a 7-20 program with one eligible player and a fan base that doesn't like you because you're an unknown from up north. And imagine rebuilding the program in to a winner for a generation. That's what Ed DeChellis did, so Brooks' Savage's rebuilding project with ETSU Buccaneers men's basketball seems light in comparison. April 16, 2023. Subscribe to this channel for the best ETSU commentary!

Imagine coming to a 7-20 program with one eligible player and a fan base that doesn't like you because you're an unknown from up north. And imagine rebuilding the program in to a winner for a generation. That's what Ed DeChellis did, so Brooks' Savage's rebuilding project with ETSU Buccaneers men's basketball seems light in comparison. April 16, 2023. Subscribe to this channel for the best ETSU commentary!

A shooting guard from Huntington Prep in West Virginia and a 6-10 shot blocking center from former Atlantic Sun rival North Florida are coming to ETSU. April 11, 2023. Subscribe to Marky Billson's channel!

A shooting guard from Huntington Prep in West Virginia and a 6-10 shot blocking center from former Atlantic Sun rival North Florida are coming to ETSU. April 11, 2023. Subscribe to Marky Billson's channel!

ETSU is bringing in cheaper assistant coaches. Including a recruiting coordinator for football who once transferred away from the football program!

A recent interview with Don Helman was most telling. Subscribe to Marky Billson's channel for the best ETSU commentary!

He's improving the level of player the Buccaneers' men's hoops team is going after. But what's with Kris Arkenberg? March 29, 2023. Subscribe to Marky Billson's channel for the ONLY ETSU commentary out there!

Five players have transferred and Savage will make more than $100,000 less per year during his 5-year contract his predecessor did.

What about local favorite Mike Morrell at UNCA? This just seems like a booster hire. March 18, 2023.

Weep not for Mike Morrell, but this seems like a booster hire. Subscribe to Marky Billson's channel for the best ETSU commentary!

Sports media coverage in Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol and beyond is often just dreadful and continually seems to avoid tackling any kind of important or tough topic for fluff like high school game stories. Here's the latest example. March 5, 2023. Subscribe to Marky Billson's You Tube channel because he DOESN'T avoid the tough topics!

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The City of Elizabethton, Tennessee once issued an ultimatum that a deal with the Minnesota Twins had to get done on the above date if an agreement to renovate O'Brien Field and likely keep the then-professional Appalachian League team in town. The deadline passed and was forgotten. Later, an agreement was reached in which the city would pay over the course of a decade and a half a new kitchen and locker rooms for the Elizabethton Twins. After ONE SEASON, the team then disbanded. Later I learned Minnesota toyed with the idea of moving the team to Beckley, WV, though that never made the papers, but that would have required hiring new personnel (longtime E-Twins manager Ray Smith has firm roots in Elizabethton, even serving as Milligan College's athletic director) and moving to stadium without the amenities desired anyway. Just an example of how the insularity of the City of Elizabethton and the Minnesota Twins organization meant costing the citizens of the town lots of money for basically nothing.

Desmond Oliver is coaching for his career on Feb. 10, 2023 against Virginia Military Institute. Follow Marky Billson on Rumble for the best ETSU commentary.

For years the Chicago Cubs had their fans just where they wanted them. They promoted an image and romanticism and their fans ate it up, and so the front office wasn't motivated to win and the Cubs didn't. The Tennessee Volunteers football program is much the same way, looking to the past (hiring AD Phil Fulmer, for instance) and not to the future. Marky Billson nails it on Sept. 1, 2019, a full two seasons before Jeremy Pruitt and Fulmer were dismissed. Subscribe to Marky Billson's channel for the most cutting-edge sports commentary in east Tennessee!

It's rather obvious why Richard Sander was brought on as AD full time. Subscribe to this channel for the best ETSU commentary!

That's why Richard Sander had the "interim" tag removed from his athletic director position.

Sander has proven to be able to hire quality coaches, something Scott Carter didn't do. With George Quarles and Desmond Oliver off to shaky starts in the glamour sports of ETSU, should Sanders be asked to stay on for a year and let go of his "interim" tag?

He's hired good coaches in the past. Scott Carter didn't, which is why football and men's basketball may need to make changes soon. Subscribe to Marky Billson's You Tube channel and hit the bell and like button!

They've done it before and they're doing it again. First the Vols' basketball team wouldn't come to Johnson City for 53 years after the Bucs nearly beat them in 1963. Now, Tennessee baseball won't make their once-annual visit to Johnson City for the fourth straight year. And they've ducked the Bucs before.

The once annual visit to Johnson City is now on hiatus for the fourth straight season. Why? Subscribe to Marky Billson's You Tube channel!

The 2023 roster appears barren! Subscribe to this channel for the best ETSU commentary!

In this video hosted by Marky Billson, Silva of South Texas Border Sports discusses the East Tennessee State athletic director vacancy and who he thinks would be a good candidate to take over the Buccaneers' helm. Silva nominates Lance Morgan, formerly Texas-Rio Grande Valley's Director of Corporate Sales and Sponsorships. Check out his bio at https://broncathleticfund.com/staff.aspx?&staff=142. Then follow Rey on Twitter at @SoTxAthletix, and then subscribe to this page. Because who else is discussing the ETSU AD search? Nov. 30, 2022.

Neugebauer was Quarles' hire. And why do ETSU fans clamor for Quarles resignation and not his firing?