– Tuesday notes and observations
– ETSU’s digital gameday program
– ETSU’s Folks makes history with eighth season of college football
– Jaylan Adams returns to Johnson City
– The Brent Thompson Show (in podcast format)
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Broadcast information
The Citadel at East Tennessee State, to be played at William B. Greene, Jr. Stadium in Johnson City, Tennessee, with kickoff at 4:35 pm ET on October 9, 2021.
The game will be streamed on ESPN+ and televised on the following TV stations:
- ECBD (Charleston, SC)
- WBTW (Myrtle Beach, SC)
- WMUB (Macon, GA)
- WMYT (Charlotte, NC)
- WWCW (Lynchburg/Roanoke, VA)
- WYCW (Greenville, SC/Spartanburg, SC/Asheville, NC).
Pete Yanity will handle play-by-play, while Todd Agne supplies the analysis.
The contest can be heard on radio via The Citadel Sports Network. WQNT-1450 AM [audio link], originating in Charleston, will be the flagship station. Other stations carrying the game include WQXL in Columbia (100.7 FM/1470 AM) and WDXY in Sumter (105.9 FM/1240 AM).
Luke Mauro (the “Voice of the Bulldogs”) calls the action alongside analyst Lee Glaze.
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– From an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
[VMI head football coach Scott Wachenheim] has interest in moving VMI-The Citadel to the end of the season every year.
“I’d even do it at a neutral site, but I do like doing it home-and-home because of the fanfare,” he said. “The whole experience at their place and our place is pretty cool, especially when our corps goes down there and their corps comes up here.”
The Citadel-VMI has occasionally been played at a neutral site. I think home-and-home is definitely the way to go, however.
I would be okay with the game being played in November every year. As a practical matter, the Bulldogs can’t host on the final Saturday of the regular season because of the timing for the fall furlough, but there is no reason the two teams can’t face each other on the second Saturday of the month (or the third Saturday in November when the matchup is in Virginia).
As for The Citadel’s other primary rival, Furman, that series is similar in that there has not been a “standard” time for playing the game. Some of the Paladins faithful have occasionally argued that it should be an end-of-year affair, but historically that contest has been played in October more than any other month.
I believe consistently playing it in midseason would be most appropriate. I know others might have differing opinions, but for me, The Citadel and Furman should always play in mid-October, in the third or fourth league game of the campaign.
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Incidentally, 19 of the 29 previous gridiron meetings between The Citadel and ETSU have been in October. Five have been in November, four in September, and one in March.
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Roster review:
– Of the 113 players on The Citadel’s online roster, 61 are from South Carolina. Other states represented: Georgia (18 players), Florida (11), North Carolina (9), Virginia (5), Alabama (2), Texas (2), and one each from New York, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Tight end Hayden Williamson played his high school football in Okinawa, Japan.
– East Tennessee State also has 113 players on its online roster. Of those, 45 are from Tennessee. Other states with representatives on the Bucs’ squad: Georgia (31 players), North Carolina (8), Florida (7), Ohio (5), Virginia (5), Alabama (3), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina (2), and one each from California Delaware, Kentucky, Minnesota, and West Virginia.
The two South Carolina natives on ETSU’s roster are fourth-year running back D.J. Twitty (who went to Chapman High School in Inman) and redshirt freshman defensive back Tylik Edwards (Rock Hill High School).
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