With over $50,000 in new equipment and a totally revamped weight room, the Rattler football team hopes to get stronger during the off season to prevent fewer injuries during the regular season.
"An All-American standing behind me on Saturdays does not help our program," said Joe Taylor, who became FAMU's head coach in January. "He needs to be out there on the field helping us. That's what you're looking at."
With the new weight room, the Rattlers also brought on a new strength and conditioning coach in Antonio Wallace. Wallace is certified by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association as well as the International Sports Science Association as a specialist in sports conditioning.
Some of the new equipment FAMU was able to pick up for a fraction of the cost by purchasing it from the Miami Dolphins who were in the process of revamping their weight room.
Tired of being pushed around on the line, huh?
ReplyDeleteMan this is really good stuff. You have to have a good wieght program if you want to win games.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone had the opportunity to go see this new group of rattlers practice. I live out of state and TDO is really not giving any insight on spring football?
ReplyDeleteTDO is terrible. Heath Smith did a lousy job of reporting FAMU athletics and our Sports Information Department needs a good housecleaning. Bill Hayes needs to fire everyone of them.
ReplyDeleteYeah, its kinda sad that we have to resort to blogs to find out about FAMU football, while FSU gets atleast two/three artcles per day. All I am saying is that we love our football team as much as they do. Give use the same coverage, DANG!!!
ReplyDeletewow! "50,000" worth of "new" sports equipment. that's like, what, two or three weight benches and a set of barbells? way to go, athletic department! you're no doubt gonna knock those pesky opponents silly.
ReplyDeleteA fraction of the cost!
ReplyDeleteFlorida A&M means agriculture and mechanical, not athletics and music.I thought FAMU didn't have any money.But the school gives the football coach $225,000 a year contract and $56,000 for weights.Thats crazy and Dr, Ammons got people of FAMU fooled. Time will tell.
ReplyDeletemaybe they got it off craigslist. But if you want them to have better stuff, we need to donate to make it happen.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a job, you should thank FAMU and send in a portion of the salary that we made possible. A little appreciation.. thats all we ask
ReplyDeleteMAYBE MORE PEOPLE WILL START GIVING BACK WHEN OUR BELOVED SCHOOL STOP SCREWING UP THE MONEY!
ReplyDeleteTo 9:54 am
ReplyDeleteI have to disagree with your opinion. Fielding a successful athletics program (especially football) does a lot to encourage alumni (and others) to donate to the university. In addition, the success of our music program garners tremendous positive (and free) press coverage for the university and this community. All of that positive coverage in turn helps to bolster other programs when they seek funding and political support.
Consider this. While the Univ. of Florida may have had a decent reputation as a public university, their sphere of influence was limited to the state of florida. 2 Basketball championshipts and a football championship later Gatornation has a national reputation.
thats corrrect FAMU is not Univ. of Florida.Therefore,the Univ. of Florida alumni can afford to give a million dollars and get a donation card telling them where there money is going, but the FAMU administration don't tell you where your money is going and can't locate it.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest problem the University has is the inability to explain why they need the money and where it is going. I'm sure if they had a capital campaign to raise money for a new stadium and did some decent marketing, the alumni would give, they just haven't ask us, nor do they know how to ask properly. In fact they don't market the university well. They distribute press releases that we read and are happy to see that aren't news worthy therefore the media doesn't write about the non news items.
ReplyDeleteAn overall marketing strategy for the university needs to be developed and implemented correctly. Sad to say no one who is currently employed at the university can come up with a great marketing strategy due to a lack of vision, the required skill set necessary and being afraid to think outside of the box.
We have a story to sell, we just don't know how to market it.
"Go Gators" is the best marketing and advertising campaign in the country right now.
Just my opinion.
I have to agree that the "Go Gators" commercial is good. I'm a two-degree Rattler, and I love the school. I think Ammons is--and has been on a marketing campaign since he came, which was/is a necessary thing in view of all the damage done during the two previous administrations. I'm wondering, however, about all this "extra" money that is being tossed around and all of these high salaries being paid to these folks.
ReplyDeleteUh, outside the state of Florida.....UF is still just a regional party school. Besides we need to stop comparing FAMU to universities with 30,000 students.
ReplyDeleteIf we are benchmarking, let's first choose the right bench mark.
So, what are some well managed 10,000-15,000 public universities?
william & mary, ODU, James Madison, and possible Norfolk State. To name a few college who manage their budgets well.
ReplyDelete3:28 that's not true and you know it. I love FAMU like most Rattlers do, but you need to be honest, UF is known nationally for academics and athletics. I have never heard them be called a party school, however they have been referred to as a flagship university and research school. Gatorade anyone! In addition to those fact and they are facts, we Rattlers want to say that we are smarter, better, etc, so enrollment size shouldn't matter nor should we be satisify with having a small enrollment. We should strive to educate 50,000 African American bright students. It is time that we stop talking out of both sides of our mouth and have higher expectations of our beloved university. I know we can be the best school in the country.
ReplyDeleteOften times on this blog we say what makes us appear to be smart, therefore I will provide you with sourced information from Princeton Magazine below:
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a flagship public sea-grant space-grant land-grant university, a major research university located on 2,000 acres campus in Gainesville, Florida, United States of America. The university is only one of 62 elected members of the Association of American Universities.[3] The University of Florida was founded in 1853,[4] and is a Public Ivy University.[5]
The University of Florida is the second-largest university in the United States, with 51,913 students (as of Fall 2007). The University of Florida is the largest and comprehensive university in the state of Florida and has one of the largest budgets in the United States (nearly $4.377 billion per year).[6] UF is home to 17 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. As of the 2007/2008 academic year, UF ranked twelfth among all institutions in the number of new National Merit Scholar students enrolled.[7] Researchers at the University of Florida were responsible for developing the famous sports drink Gatorade.[8]
The University of Florida offers many graduate programs — including engineering, law and medicine — on one contiguous site, and coordinates 123 master degree programs and 76 doctoral programs in 87 schools and departments. [9]