Banner Years & Tournament Tales-Volley Back To Excellence-2017 Texas A&M-Commerce Lion Volleyball
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…
Banner Years & Tournament Tales-One Final Run for Walker-2016-2017 Texas A&M-Commerce Basketball
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…
Banner Years & Tournament Tales-Champions Again and Back To the Dance-2014-15 Texas A&M-Commerce Lions Basketball
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…
Call The Roll Podcast: Playing Hardball With Softball
Division I Diatribes-Naming Names
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…
Call The Roll Podcast-Fieldhouses & Football Facilities
Call The Roll Podcast-And a Happy New Roar
Banner Years & Tournament Tales-Lion’s Peak-1997-98 Texas A&M-Commerce Lions Basketball
The late 1990’s were a rough time for Texas A&M-Commerce in athletics, but during the Fall and Winter, Men’s Basketball was heating up the campus and keeping fans on the edge of their seats, and Paul Peak had built a program that had duplicated the success that the Jim Gudger era teams had. Heading into…
Banner Years & Tournament Tales-1996-97 Texas A&M-Commerce Basketball-Elite Again
For East Texas A&M Lion Basketball in the late 1990’s, it was a time of change for the Lion program. After 2 years of positive momentum and winning the Lone Star Conference and making the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history in 1996, Paul Peak & his Lions the change and went…
Lion Hoops-2025-26 Mid Year Review
For the East Texas A&M Lion Men, it is rare for them to have back to back losing seasons. For Jaret von Rosenberg, it was even more rare to have ANY losing season. The first five seasons, including a COVID shortened ’21 season, Coach Rose was 88-46 with 3 NCAA Tournament Apperances, Two Second Round…
Lion Women’s Hoops-2025-26 Mid Year Grades
Well, it is not technically the halfway point from a numerical standpoint, but halfway through the season, the ET Women’s Basketball team has shown that have made major improvements from last season, so lets take a deeper look. This year’s record-4-5 through 9 games. Last year’s record-3-6 through 9 games. Now, you may be tempted…
Call The Roll Podcast-A Merry Christmas To You
Banner Years & Tournament Tales-1996 East Texas State Basketball-Back to the Dance
1991 was the end of an era for Men’s Basketball. Jerry Matthews, who had been a vanguard of the Lion Basketball program and guided them to 2 conference titles, decided to ride into the sunset after a Hall of Fame Career as a Football player and Head Basketball Coach at ETSU and also a hall…
Call The Roll Podcast-According To Jim
Clint Dolezel’s Future-The Wire’s Official Take
Last week I published two different takes on what the future should look like when it comes to Lion Football and whether Clint Dolezel should be a part of it long term. One side is frustrated with losing winnable games, not recruiting the FBS transfer portal the way many in our conference are and feel…
Call The Roll Podcast-East Texas Roulette
Call The Roll Podcast-Cold Roses
Banner Years & Tournament Tales-1990 East Texas State Lions Basketball
First, a congratulations to the ET Men’s Basketball team for winning their first invitational in the DIvision I era under Coach Jaret Von Rosenberg! Jerry Matthews had been coaching in Commerce for 7 seasons and was heading into his final season, needed something to help him and the entire athletic department at ET. The transition…
Why Dolezel’s Time Is Up
The following is written by a group of concerned ETSU alums regarding the status of Lion Football Head Coach Clint Dolezel. It is not written nor endorsed by The Lion Wire or it’s owner. In life there are times where we have to realize that despite good intentions, hopes, and expectations, some things just do…
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