Lion For Life-Vol.1, Edition-3, Bobby Wolfe

There are many men who are happy to just be “everyday” guys. Bobby Wolfe is one of those guys. Do not let that tag however make you think that Bobby Wolfe is ordinary. He lettered with the Lions from 1980-1982, blocking for future NFL QB’s Wade Wilson and Kyle Mackey, and played on a 1980…

Lion For Life Vol. 1, Edition # 2-Billy Minor

Rarely do players get to experience 5 years of successful Football on the college level, but for Wideout Billy Minor (1988-1992), he is the exception that rule. Billy has been another great friend to this blog and to me personally. Here is Billy’s ET Lion File. Name: Billy Minor Hometown: Paris, TX High School: Paris…

Lion For Life Vol.1-Allen Roulette

One of the goals of this blog has always been to honor the former greats that have been through Commerce and worn the Blue and Gold. It is something that I have made a focal point of this blog. Some are greater than others, but I want to focus on all letterman of Old ET…

Lions Men’s Basketball: History and Traditions

One of the goals of the blog when I first started was to bring attention to the great athletic traditions that Texas A&M-Commerce/ET State have. Basketball is one of the great sports that has not been really had a lot of attention paid to it. Perhaps it is because of the fact everyone knows about…

Lion Softball: 5 Thoughts

I have not covered softball as much as I have the other sports. There are a lot of reasons for that, but when a team is having as much success as this team has had in such short amount of time, it is to be duly noted. Having had a program that is now in…

Blacklands Report: The Hiatus Ends.

It has been a while since my last report and write up and there is a reason for that, and I might as well make it public. I have been sick. Very Sick, but not in the way that you think. No, I do not have cancer, or some other illness in that category. For…

Lion Football: The 2017 Incoming Class

2017 A&M-COMMERCE FOOTBALL SIGNEES NAME POS HT WT HOMETOWN PREV SCHOOL Dylan Davis DL 6-3 215 Sunnyvale, Texas Sunnyvale HS Dayne Douglass LB 6-2 220 Canyon, Texas Canyon HS Gunnar Palacios QB 6-0 190 Canyon, Texas Canyon Jordan Gray DB 6-0 195 Frisco, Texas Independence HS Arnezz Archie WR 6-1 170 Spring, Texas Spring HS…

A huge BTB Happy Birthday to Coach Ernest Hawkins.

Blogging the Blacklands would like to take this time to wish a happy birthday to legendary Coach Ernest Hawkins. Coach Hawk turned 90 over the weekend and it was attended by many former players and alums of ETSU/TAMUC. The profound impact that Coach Hawkins has had on the University and the football program has been…

Updated School Recieving Records

These records were the toughest to pull and get due to the change of offense that has happened in Football over the past few years, so lets start with the career yards. Gary Compton, 3,041 Yards, 1987-1990 Wes Smith, 2,652 Yards, 1982-1985 Vernon Johnson, 2,608 Yards, 2013-2014 Randy Smith, 1,961 Yards, 1978-181 Dannie Rogers, 1,865…

In Memorial: Kennis Miles

I just got off the phone with former Lion tailback Cary Noiel who informed me that former Lion linebacker Kennis Miles passed away. Miles was a 4 year letterman out of Waco, Texas and started for the Lions 1980 National Semifinalist team. He was a key cog in the defense that took the Lions the…