Texas A&M-Commerce Lions: 2023 Season Preview
Greetings, Lion fans, and the time that we as football fans have been eagerly awaiting since November of 2022 is drawing ever closer. With the 2023 season just over three weeks away, it’s time we here at The Wire break it all down now that the roster has somewhat settled, with incoming freshmen now on…
Division I Diatribes: Babies and Bathwater
It has been a busy and interesting past 3 years if you are a Texas A&M-Commerce or East Texas State Lion. As I was preparing to write this newest diatribe, I had to think carefully about how I could express some thoughts and ideas in a positive way, while at the same time not trying…
Scatter Shooting, Part Two: Waiting Impatiently
Greetings, Lion fans, and it’s almost that time of year again. The Bible of football in Texas, Dave Campbell’s, has finally arrived. Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. It has been a staple of media coverage in the state since 1960. What began with Dave Campbell himself, a sportswriter and editor for the Waco Tribune Herald, and…
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast-NIL Goes to Washington, and The Other Lions.
Hawkins’ Last Hurrah-1983 East Texas State Lions
As we head into yet another season of Lion football, 40 years ago there was a team that faced many of the challenges that the current team faces today. They were in their second year moving up classifications, they were on the lower end of the financial totem pole, and there was change on the…
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast New Episode: Cardinal Red
Roll Called-Johnie Hurndon 1968-2023
Another Lion has answered the roll call. Johnie Herndon lettered at East Texas State from 1988-1989, where he was an All-LSC Conference Back in 1989 and an integral part of the 1988’s team resurgence back into the Lone Star Conference. Before his time in Commerce, Herndon was an outstanding back for the Dangerfield Tigers of…
The Lion Wire’s Call the Roll Podcast-Howling About the Huskies
Division I Diatribes: Return Serve
When the announcement was made that Texas A&M-Commerce would become a Division I NCAA institution, most of you know I did not agree with the decision. However, there was a hope that maybe the school would add some sports we either used to have or had never really had, such as Baseball or Soccer for…
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast-Yes, Colonel.
TLW’s Call The Roll Podcast-Dave Campbells Is The Word, but not Incarnate Word.
Roll Called: Jimmy Talley, 1951-2023
Greetings, Lion fans, and another Lion has answered the Roll Call. Jimmy Talley, #54 here, the center on the 1972 NAIA National Champions, passed away June 15th. Best described as a real “hard-nosed” player by his teammates, he was exactly the kind of tough and determined player desired by Head Coach Ernest Hawkins and offensive…
Year Two in Division One: Where are we at, and Where do we go?
Greetings, Lion fans, and while the Texas heat has certainly turned up to 11, and the sports season is kind of in a lull right now, it’s a perfect time to take stock of where the Lion athletic program is , where they’re headed, and where they’ve been. It’s no secret how the staff here…
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast-Blue Gang Bowl I & McNeese State Preview
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast New Episode-Axe or be Axed
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast-Early Days of Summer & Old Dominion Preview
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast-Moving On and A Way Too Early Preview of Sacramento State
The Lion Wire’s Call The Roll Podcast-A Way Too Early 2023 Lion Football Preview-UC Davis
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