ETSU Basketball: Why Is Johnson City, Tennessee Out of Love for the Buccaneers?

ETSU Basketball: Why Is Johnson City, Tennessee Out of Love for the Buccaneers?

This year the Bucs announced they’d move their baseball team into a new park. Only it would be equipped with temporary stands and the overall project would be, at best, half completed, much like their soccer and softball fields were golf training nets upon moving into them in 2007 and 2009, respectively.But once again complications have arrived. The Bucs are still playing baseball at off-campus Cardinal Park, and the new field is nothing but a grated field of mud.ETSU told us the delays in building their soccer field, which didn't even have lights until its third year of use, was because they hadn’t built new athletic facilities since 1977, save for a new golf training facility built in 2002. Therefore, they should be given a pass on the mistakes they made in constructing Summers-Taylor Stadium as it was all new to them.Now the athletic department’s golf training nets excuse in building the baseball park is they came across rock underneath the diamond that would prevent proper draining.Shouldn’t they have known that before they started the project? And what is the excuse now for continually playing in half-constructed venues rather than completed ones? Hasn’t ETSU learned from their mistakes?