Sports fans tend to reduce everything to wins and losses and as a consequence too often relegate everything else to background noise.Many in the media last week seemed to suffer from that myopia as Florida A&M University President James H. Ammons at a campus news conference announced the resignation of athletic director Nelson Townsend and the firing of head football coach Rubin Carter.
Based on the number and variety of questions, Carter’s dismissal drew the greatest interest. But Ammons’ response to those questions reflected much more than a decision based solely on Carter’s won-lost record.
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Here is a different take on the Carter firing.
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First, I think that Mr. Wilson is right on point. As supporters or critics of the athletic program, we must step up our dollars, if not we will never catch up with the mid majors. I think that there is a need for the boosters not only to help pay Carter's salary, but also supplement the next coach's and his assistant’s salaries. Then, we can go after a Charlie Strong or Nix at USC, other than that we will have to stay in the HBCU coaching circle.
ReplyDeleteMr. Wilson hit it right on the head. We must stop being a community and university of COMPLAINERS. It is time, in every proverbial sense of the word, to put our money where our mouth is.
ReplyDeleteCheck out Keith R. Tribble at the University of Central Florida. He was the one who led the construction of there new 45,000 seat stadium and there new 10,000 seat arena with shops and restaurants at the bottom. He would be an excellent athletics director.
ReplyDeleteYou can bet there is an Athletic Director in mind. Namely, William "Bill" Hayes at NCCU.
ReplyDeleteI hear that Billy Joe's name has been bandied about for the AD spot. I think BJ would make a very decent AD. At sixty-seven years old, I don't think he's like to get back into the rough and tumble world of the FAMU coaching machine and all that it entails. As badly as the man was treated by Castell Bryant, he never said one discouraging and disparaging word about the university, unlike Castell did when she went out. I would like to say that BJ can teach Castell a thing or two about class, but I'm afraid the woman is un-learnable. Plus, she's an old country girl from Bartow, and apparently she didn't learn much of anything in the way of class and grace during her growing-up years and she didn't learn anything during her many years in academia when she hobbed and knobbed with higher-ups, which goes to show you, "you can't buy class. Either you have it or you don't."
ReplyDeleteWomen's volleyball needs to change too. We got an all immigrant team because the foreign coach blocks off spots for foreign players and capable players at FAMU never get a chance. An all-white team at FAMU... doesn't make sense.
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