East Texas A&M Lions @ Grambling State Tigers-Storylines, Starters, and Stuff You Need To Know

Who: Versus Where: Eddie G. Robinson Stadium, Grambling, LA When: Saturday, September 20, 6 PM Watch/Listen/Stats- LIVE AUDIO: Lion Sports Network – KETR 88.9 FM (http://www.ketr.org)LIVE VIDEO: SWAC TV | https://tv.swac.org/program-group/e1dbe7ec9a7e686b42b53ab33c3e30e4/program/160bf96f7e501687d98d4f7b1c1fd4f0LIVE STATS: https://gsutigers.com/sidearmstats/football/summary Starters- Offense-Spread QB-Ron Peace, 6’2, 210 LBS, SR, Malakoff, TX RB-KJ Shankle 5’10, 206 LBS, SR, Richmond, TX WR-Christian Jourdain, 5’10, 178 LBS, SR, New Orleans, LA WR-Paul…

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East Texas A&M Lions VS. # 14 Florida State Seminoles-Storylines, Starters, and Stuff You Need To Know

Who: Where: Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, Florida When: Saturday, September 6, 11 AM Weather: Partly Cloudy, 84 Degrees @ Kickoff, Winds NW @ 6 MPH Watch/Listen/Stats LIVE AUDIO: Lion Sports Network – KETR 88.9 FM (http://www.ketr.org) Charlie Chitwood (Play by Play) Brock Callaway (Color/Stats)LIVE VIDEO: ACC Network | https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/eventCalendarId/401754621LIVE STATS: https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=604348&vislive=tame Starters- Offense-Spread QB-Eric Rodriguez 5’10, 199 LBS, JR, Houston, TX——————-…

Call The Roll Podcast-The Seminoles And The Pony They Rode In On

Labor Day Post-Mortem-East Texas A&M-13, Southern Methodist-42

A lot of you were already asking the question as to why you didn’t see me at the game or also why I wasn’t providing updates and scores……well there are reasons for that. As most of you know, this was a wet weekend in DFW and also the temperature dropped quite a bit in a…

East Texas A&M Lions VS. # 16 (FBS) Southern Methodist Mustangs-Storylines, Starters, & Stuff You Need To Know-

Who: When: Saturday, August 30, 8 PM Where: Gerald J Ford Stadium, University Park, TX Weather: 78 and drizzle at Kickoff. 86 % Humidity, Wind NW @ 5 MPH Watch/Listen/Stats LIVE AUDIO: Lion Sports Network – KETR 88.9 FM (http://www.ketr.org) Charlie Chitwood (Play by Play) Brock Callaway (Color/Stats) LIVE VIDEO: ACC Network | https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/4b3f0531-0f4d-4117-9d84-0ccec35ac2f5LIVE STATS: https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=605049&vislive=tame Starters- Offense-Spread QB-Ron Peace, 6’2,…

Call The Roll Podcast-Time To Pony Up

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Banner Years & Tournament Tales-The Golden Goodlett Era Begins-1986 East Texas State Lions Volleyball

After Donna Tavener helped establish a volleyball program and tennis program for Women at East Texas State, the University saw that the success both programs had accomplished was worth the investment in trying to hire some new coaches. They did that in 1983 when they hired Kathy Goodlett. Goodlett was a young, smart, and intense…

Division I Diatribes-The Joy of Hate-Part 2

A few years ago, I wrote a column called “The Joy of Hate, our 5 Biggest Rivals.” It was well received and hated by the right kind of people and the target audience. When ET was in the Lone Star Conference, we were around for almost a century and basically knew who we hated, kind…

Banner Years & Tournament Tales-Gritting One Out-1984 East Texas State Lions Basketball

“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.” Those immortal words, spoken by the great Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, speak of the nature of life…

Call The Roll Podcast-Straight Outta Compton

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Banner Years & Tournament Tales-It’s The Ladies Turn-1980 East Texas State Lions Volleyball

When people think about the fall of 1980 at East Texas State, most people think about the Lion football team that rode the arm to future NFL quarterback Wade Wilson to the NAIA National Semifinals that finished 3rd in the nation and almost won their second national championship in 8 years, but in that time,…

2025 East Texas A&M Lion Football Preview

Overview: In Commerce, Texas, there is a lot going on, and for a town of only 10,000 residents on the Northeast Texas Blackland Prairies, that says quite a bit. However, when what was a teacher’s college 75 years ago and a member of the NAIA is now officially an NCAA Division I athletic institution, it…

Banner Years & Tournament Tales: Gudger Leaves His Mark-1979 East Texas State Basketball

When Jim Gudger took the head basketball coaching position at East Texas State, he had a tall order, which was to turn around a team used to winning that was not winning, and turn them into winners again. After his first 4 seasons resulting in a 35-68 record, Gudger recruited and brought winning basketball back…

Call The Roll Podcast-Alabama, The Cotton Bowl, and Israel Hughes

Banner Years & Tournament Tales-Two Championships in One Great Decade-1972 & 1978 East Texas State Men’s Tennis

The 1970’s were a really good time to be an ETSU Lion. The Football team won a conference and national title in 1972 and posted a successful decade record, Men’s Basketball won 5 conference titles and went to the NAIA tournament 4 times, Track continued it’s dominance, and Women’s sports were starting to grab a…

Division I Diatribes-Making The Band

Some of you might remember a few diatribes ago I went a bit of a controlled rant where I basically said that the music played before and during the games was tawdry, disgusting, awful, tasteless, classless, and just flat out unfriendly to the human ear. In the aftermath of that, I had a lot of…

Banner Years & Tournament Tales-Back To The Final Four-1978 East Texas State Basketball

After a challenging first four years at East Texas State University, Jim Gudger had gotten the Lions back to where they had been in the previous decades. He had them winning conference championships, making the NAIA postseason, making deep runs, and winning the conference tournament championships. He had the program among the elite in the…

Call The Roll Podcast-State of The Program-Softball

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Banner Years & Tournament Tales-1977 East Texas State Basketball-Elite Again

I did not live through the 1970’s, but ask anyone who was there, times changed, and the ways of doing thing had changed. One thing had not changed, and that was Jim Gudger’s powerful East Texas State Men’s Basketball team. 1975 had been gotten the Lions a conference title, but not a chance to get…

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