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There are a lot of similarities between Jackson Morrill and his father, Mike.
Both grew up in Baltimore to US Lacrosse Hall-of-Fame fathers. Both are and were stellar attackmen. Both played with a high IQ to outsmart opponents and earn big roles. But one similarity came to fruition only this past season when Jackson made the decision to spend his fifth year of eligibility at Denver to play for coach Bill Tierney, who coached Mike as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s.
Tierney and Mike won the 1985 and 1987 national titles with those dominant Blue Jays teams. Now, Jackson is going into the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament looking for his second ring. For that chase to be under the same coach who helped his dad get two of his own isn’t lost on just how incredible that would be.
Tom Cox
While preparing recently to teach a course about the history of the desegregation of Southern college sports, I had the good fortune to connect with ETSU basketball legend Tommy Woods. Mr. Woods, who was inducted last month into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, enrolled at ETSU in 1963, becoming the schoolâs first black player â and probably the first African American to integrate a varsity team at any Tennessee public college. Now 77 and retired from a career in law enforcement in Louisville, Kentucky, he entertained and enlightened me with several stories about his experiences at ETSU.
Tommy Woods grew up in Alcoa, where he attended segregated all-black public schools. When he accepted ETSUâs scholarship offer, he was not even aware he would become a racial trailblazer. A talented and hard-working player (he still holds all the ETSU records for rebounding), neither his athletic talents nor his life experience had prepared Woods for what awaited him when h
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State Journal-Register
GALESBURG – No sooner did the knees touch the floor than the politicians’ complaints started flying.
Kneeling during the national anthem before a game is like raising a middle finger to the U.S. flag, Tennessee state Sen. Jon Lundberg told the president of East Tennessee State last month during a budget hearing.
Shortly thereafter, the coach, Jason Shay, was out of a job.
Shay quit as ETSU’s head coach last week after one season and a 13-12 record.
As part of his separation agreement he will receive $450,000 not to coach.
When you pay someone not to work it’s a pretty good sign you don’t want them around anymore.