ETSU Football in prose

From the Elizabethton Star comes another letter to the editor about East Tennessee State University cutting football.  Rather than a normal rant on why the administration has made a poor choice or why the students voted down the return of football, a local reader puts an interesting spin on his feelings.

 

    There is an administration we all know,

    Which a great athletic program they did blow.

    Under the guise of saving money,

    And aspiring to be a school of athletic honey,

    They, in all their wisdom made the call,

    Totally without logic, to drop football.

    Then as we all know,

    The so-con said, you must go.

    So after all was said and done,

    E.T.S.U. had no choice but to enter the Atlantic Sun.

    Now their athletic trips are far and wide,

    It’s the next thing to impossible for us to ride.

    You can follow their basketball to Hawaii for 1520,

    But only if you have money aplenty.

    I’m sure the A-Sun trips are of no worry,

    We can travel by plane and not have to hurry.

    Following the Bucs in the so-con wasn’t by chance,

    To follow our team in the A-Sun requires a re-finance.

    E.T.S.U. fathers have a 1 hundred million vision at best,

    One can only wonder if this they can digest.

    There is no money for football, and the students won’t pay,

    I wonder if the students would mind paying for the soccer the Bucs play.

    If losing money warrants giving athletic programs a toss,

    Then all programs must go, because everything left is a loss.

    Regardless of E.T.S.U. releases Buc fans, do not despair,

    There is a strong movement to restore football in the air.

    All Buc fans the writing is on the wall,

    Nothing brings pride and recognition to a college campus like football.

 

Richard L. Dykes

Elizabethton