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Post by Cat Fan on Sept 27, 2018 13:41:58 GMT -5
To me, the most natural rivalry for ETSU would be UTC, for the obvious reasons. Both Tennessee schools, both in the UT system, both large(er) public schools.
Currently, ETSU is the only school that also matches up well with Western Carolina. I think their fans would look at ETSU more as a rival, that WCU could ever become.
The only other school in the SoCon that needs a rival is Mercer, and I think FuBeAR is doing all he can to get something started there, he seems to have a pretty good dislike for the Catamounts, and some of their fans.
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Post by Old Catamounjt on Sept 27, 2018 13:45:52 GMT -5
I think something is going to happen soon on a WCU-East Tennessee State rivalry...according to my source in Johnson City. I really think this our best bet at a SoCon rivalry considering the proximity and similarities of the schools and history. I don't think the private schools near us (Wofford and Furman) would ever embrace the idea and the other schools are too distant. Although we will never have a rivalry like the one with App State, the WCU-ETSU has some positive possibilities. ETSU is going to be a consistent contender soon under Randy Sanders and their basketball is already there.
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Sept 27, 2018 16:56:34 GMT -5
I think something is going to happen soon on a WCU-East Tennessee State rivalry...according to my source in Johnson City. I really think this our best bet at a SoCon rivalry considering the proximity and similarities of the schools and history. I don't think the private schools near us (Wofford and Furman) would ever embrace the idea and the other schools are too distant. Although we will never have a rivalry like the one with App State, the WCU-ETSU has some positive possibilities. ETSU is going to be a consistent contender soon under Randy Sanders and their basketball is already there. For everybody who wants App to be our rival again, please ask the administration to spend the money to increase our scholarship number to 85 and find us an FBS conference to go to so that we can start playing App again every year. Oh that's right, we had poor leadership who did not think that athletics was important so we did not plan for the future. So, we will never play App again until we can move up. Makes absolutely no sense to travel to App for a game so they can beat us. What does that do for anybody?
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