I remember the first time I was confronted with what a need was and what a want was, and why one came before the other. It was a text book in second grade I think and it was a social studies class. It was illustrated and it had a diagram of pictures of things that…
Who: Versus No. 11 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks When: Saturday, September 5, 7 PM Where: Homer Bryce Stadium, Nacogdoches, TX Weather: Mostly Cloudy and Scattered T-Storms at Kickoff. Very Humid. Watch/Listen/Stats- TV-https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/e120e3e4-12f0-4ebb-b196-5b7396ba4fb7 Radio-88.9 KETR (Commerce) Charlie Chitwood, (Play by Play), Brock Callaway (Color/Analysis) Stats-https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=661970&vislive=tame Streaming-ww.KETR.org Overall-Last week, ET almost continued the weekend trend of FCS…
Back in 2005, I remember an interview I listened to with former Texas Tech Quarterback Cody Hodges. He played QB at Tech from 2001-2005. He was from Hereford, a local guy and had a storied high school career, but he was now moving into his Senior year after Texas Tech had left the middle of…
Who: Versus When: Saturday, 6 PM, Where: Five Star Stadium, Mercer, GA Weather: Cloudy and 84 Degrees at Kickoff Watch/Listen/Stats- TV-ESPN Radio-88.9 KETR (Commerce) Charlie Chitwood, (Play by Play), Brock Callaway (Color/Analysis) Stats-https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=672795&vislive=tame Streaming-ww.KETR.org Overall- This has been a crazy week in FCS football so far, especially in the Southland. NAIA Louisiana Christian defeated Northwestern…
Overview: August of 2022 was the start of a new journey for the East Texas A&M football program and indeed, the entire athletic department. However, in Texas, specifically rural Northeast Texas, football comes first, middle, and last in regards to what needs to be a winning program. Anything else is considered a disappointment. 2026 East…
I get a lot of questions asked about ET athletics all the time, especially after the move to Division I. They are usually ones that are redundant, such as “When are we going to get a new stadium or renovate the existing one?” “What is going to happen to the Fieldhouse?” “Why can’t we have…
30 years ago if there was one word to describe what was going on in Commerce, Texas and on the campus of East Texas State University, it would be uncertainty and change. Those two words never go well together. There is nothing worse in life that having a situation leads you into change that is…
The 1980’s were the definition of up and down for the East Texas State football program. In the first 4 seasons, the Lions went 29-13 with a top 3 finish in 1980, where they finished as national semifinalists, Winning Records in 1981 and 1982, their first season after moving from the NAIA to NCAA Division…
From 1990-1996 in the State of Texas, Texas A&M University was the top college football program in Texas. Who was the second best? The East Texas State Lions, and 1992 showed that. From 1990-1996, The Lions went 51-29 with 3 NCAA playoff appearances and a conference title in 1990. Commerce, Texas was playing great football.…
ET student and Commerce native joins the Call The Roll Podcast team. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YSudYytEaxbRjsqn2b4m4?si=yG3E2dR2R3aB71ldVTs_nQ
2 decades can be a long time. For the 2017 Texas A&M-Commerce LIon Volleyball team, not a single member had even been born the last time that Lion Volleyball had been to the NCAA Division II postseason. It had been a long and trying time. After 7 seasons and 185 wins, Coach Kathy Goodlett decided…
For 17 seasons, Sam Walker roamed the sidelines of The University Fieldhouse in Commerce, racking up wins, winning conference championships, and taking teams to the NCAA tournament. Walker was a mainstay in the University community. He had broken Jim Gudger’s record, he had become the standard as far as most wins in a career, but…
After Sam Walker and his Lion squad had the enormous success of the 2004-2005 season, Lion Basketball appeared to be in a rut regarding postseason play. From the 2006-2014 seasons, Walker and his program had done quite a lot. They had 5 winning seasons, 2 second place LSC North finishes, 5 third place finishes and…
This isn’t what you think it is. If you have been listening to the Call The Roll Podcast, and many of you have been and I appreciate it, you will know that I have been talking about how the new facilities that are coming and the future improvements, and how our storied past will help…
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