When: Thursday, September 1, 7 PM Where: Ernest Hawkins Field at Texas A&M-Commerce Memorial Stadium Overview: Our first game as a Division I school will be a cupcake. One of the great things about being Division I is that you get some of these sometimes. I looked at who Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech…
As of July 1, we are finally members of NCAA Division I. It has been something that has been imminent for almost a year now, but finally, Texas A&M-Commerce is at the top of the college athletics rung. We are here. Now, I will admit, and actually this was the opinion of the entire staff…
Greetings, Lion fans, and believe it or not, there’s only 56 days remaining until the opener against Lincoln University on September 1, we here at The Wire are eagerly anticipating the start of football season. There are so many new challenges, new opponents, and the now official move to Division 1, and Brian and I…
Imagine this. At a future home football game you are walking toward the concourse at Ernest Hawkins Field at Memorial Stadium and you get in line. You have seen the mural on the outside of the stadium before, but this time something catches your eye. National Champions 1952 1972 2017 Wait, did we go back…
“May your hands always be busy May your feet always be swift May you have a strong foundation When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful May your song always be sung And may you stay May you stay forever young” Bob Dylan On a hot summer’s night in June, they…
30 Years ago this September, Dallas Morning News SportsDay Writer Kevin Sherrington took the 50 minute trip up Interstate 30 to cover a town that few knew about and a college football team that about as many seemed to have any idea existed. 10 Minutes north of the I-30 exit sat a campus of 9,000…
Hard to believe that I have been covering Spring Football games since 2011. I was thinking about how time has just flown and how I have seen the evolution of a program from Conference doormat to conference champions, to national champions, to national powerhouse, and not to Division I, all in the span of a…
Greetings, Lion fans, and after a long winter of what can only be described as complete disappointment and frustration, a new day dawns in more than one way across Lion Nation with this week’s Blue-Gold Spring game. After being denied an opportunity get a look the past two years due to COVID restrictions, it appears…
Greetings, Lion fans, and it’s that time of year in which the disappointments of the past season are erased, and the dawn and new hopes for the future are renewed. Much like spring training in baseball, in between National Signing Day and spring football, excitement builds around seeing how new players fit in, how the…
19 new student athletes were brought into the Lion family today, and while the numbers may not seem as many as in years past, the quality of the signees seem to be very, very, good. We’ll have a full analysis this weekend of every player, but two that stand out in the early peek are…
Greetings, Lion fans. Even in the off season, there is football news to be had. National Signing Day is just around the corner on February 2, 2022, and we’ll have a deep dive on every Lion signee and transfer this year. We currently have a request in to head coach David Bailiff for an interview…
Greetings, Lion fans, and with the 2021 Division 2 football season in the books, and with it, one that closes the chapter of Lion football as a Division 2 and founding Lone Star Conference member. New horizons await in 2022 as a full fledged Division 1-FCS and Southland Conference member. Brian and I will have…
/Greetings, Lion fans, it has been a very long time since we’ve had a game like yesterday. Ordinarily, we’d be watching the D2 Football playoff selection show, and hoping for a home game, or at least a favorable seeding. Unfortunately, 2021 was not to be, and the Lions found themselves playing out the regular season,…
Cedric Wilcox picks up an Eastern New Mexico fumble, returns it 72 yards, and the Lions lead, 7-0, with 12:18 left in the first.
A sluggish first quarter that is tied.
Dear Seniors, A lot of you may not know me, unless you’ve read my writing on here. Some of you, I know well. Some, I’ve shaken hands with once or twice, and others, I’ve met in passing. Almost all of you, I met during the fall of 2019 during camp. That summer marked 40 years…
Greetings, Lion fans, and we are fast approaching the end of what has been the most disappointing season in recent Lion football history. There are some bright spots to be had, however. If UT-Permian Basin upsets Midwestern, and A&M-Kingsville is somehow able to upset Angelo State, then the Lions will have a share of the…
Greetings, Lion fans, and Brian and I wish that there were more to talk about., like a final regular season tune up, and getting ready for a playoff berth. Sadly, though, after the debacle in San Angelo last Saturday, all that’s left is a final regular season face off against an improving Eastern New Mexico…
I think it is fair to say that everyone associated with Lion football, from the coaches, players, fans, and students are all disappointed in how this season has gone. Last Saturday’s loss….the worst in the Bailiff era, erased any doubt about the Lions making the playoffs. They had been hanging by a thread for weeks,…
Greetings, Lion fans, and I wish there were better news to report, but there just isn’t. There aren’t many highlights in a 30-3 loss in which there seemed to be absolutely no effort by anyone on the Lions sideline this evening, but there are a couple of highlights. Mitchell McGarry-The redshirt freshman was brilliant in…
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