FAMU economics professor Clyde Ashley claimed his share of a $232,305.32 FANTASY 5 top prize late last month. The loto drawing held on August 29 produced two top prize winners. The other ticket, which has not been collected, was purchased in Hialeah.Ashley, a professor in the Business School, will receive a one-time, lump-sum payment in the amount of $116,152.66. He purchased his winning FANTASY 5 Quick Pick ticket at Circle K, located at 6706 Thomasville Road in Tallahassee. The retailer received a bonus incentive of $500 for selling the top prize winning ticket. According to Ashley, he regularly plays Florida Lottery games and has done so since the Lottery’s inception, but this was his largest win to date. Ashley plans to use part of his winnings to purchase a new car. “I’ll definitely continue to play,” says Ashley.
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for all the running-off-at-the mouth bluster and yakkety-yak that the man spits out in every university faculty meetings where ther's a microphone, and brown-nosing with the president at every twist and turn, maybe he'll put his $$ where his big fat mouth is and initiate a start-up scholarship fund for a needy student or two. other than that he can -- and obviously will -- do whatever he wants with his winnings.
ReplyDelete^^ People, I see my typographical errors, grammatical infractions, and sentence misconstructions in my above post. There's no need to point anything out to me. I see them. I know that they are there. OK?
ReplyDeleteI guarantee you Ashley still has a negative ROI for his gambling habit. Look at the money he makes versus his lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteThis win will just make him gamble more and further impoverish him.
I thought business professors were smarter than that...don't they take statistics?
ReplyDeleteDouble down baby.
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ReplyDeletei guess bad habits outwit smarts every single time.
You MF's will run down anybody!!!!
ReplyDeleteLeave Mr. Ashley alone!!! He can do what the hell he wants with HIS money. I'm glad he won.
Hope he breaks me off some change.
holla!
Clyde Ashley has been a vocal advocate for the FAMU Faculty for many years. His unique style has, on occassion, secured much needed action on behalf of his FAMU colleagues;especially within a threatening environment where SO FEW are willing to speak out AT ALL. I applaud his courage to address faculty concerns IN PUBLIC, under his OWN NAME and GET RESULTS, through his use of hyperbole. Thank you Dr. Ashley. Keep up the good work. Pat Tucker, former FAMUFF President Comments welcome at: pat_tucker@lycos.com
ReplyDeleteWhat has he advocated for the faculty that has resulted in real, significant "results"?
ReplyDeleteI'm happy he won, but sad he will not retire. As a professor he is arrogant and full of hot air (no pun intended). How is he an economics teacher??? He only teaches PD, well, if you want to call it teaching. Since he is tenure as he will tell you every chance he gets, I guess we can't get rid of him. Hopefully he invest in some clothes as well, if I see his orange and white polo or better yet him in any polo again, I'll scream! Maybe now he can afford button ups.
ReplyDeletewow. how did a man's lotto winnings become a discussion of his clothes, faculty rights advocating, and poor teaching? i thought the article was about that big check, not his refusal to retire. must mean RN needs some juice, 'cause we're scratching at the door for something, anything.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that Rattler nation sees fit to mention Clyde Ashley but doesn't have the balls to put anything up about the Ammons/ Eddie Long/NCCU SACS problem nor the balls to put up anything about Kilpatrick and the Detroit problem.
ReplyDeleteWhere, oh where, has the rattlernation back bone gone...Oh where, oh where, is it hiding....?
WHAT HAS ASHLEY DONE?
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Dr. Clyde Ashley stood before Board of Trustee meetings exercising his right to voice an oppinion during their public comment period. I encourage other Faculty to exercise that right before its struck from the BOT Agenda.
Dr. Clyde Ashley supported his colleagues during the illegal LAYOFF of the SBI 8.
Dr. Clyde Ashley has addressed Dr. Ammons @ Campus Faculty mtgs & courteously presented Faculty issues and concerns for his review and consideration.
Dr. Clyde Ashley is to be commended for coordinating and teaching, FAMU's Professional Development Program (SBI's signature program) recognized and applauded throughout corporate America.
You're not always right when you speak out, but you're always wrong when you don't!(Jane Buck, former AAUP President)
You too can help FAMU
> Attend a Board mtg
> Voice your opinion at Board, Faculty, or departmental meetings.
> Write a MY View
> Stop hiding!
> As an Alum I love FAMU too. Let's help her to grow stronger & better!
FOLLOW CLYDE'S LEAD each in his or her own way.
"Are we mice or are we Men" & Women?
Ask current students about the current conditions of PD and I assure you that it is not the same PD Dean Mobley had in mind.
ReplyDeleteTO: Anonymous 1:07, specifically, and 3:10, generally:
ReplyDelete1. Clyde Ashley's "standing before the Board of Trustees" and "exercising his right to voice his opinion during a public comment period" is something that he does/did because he has that "right." It's called: freedom of speech. The Constitution guarantees it to its citizens. His standing before the board is not necessarily an act on behalf of anyone else. The man has a "right" to stand before the board -- and anywhere else, I suppose, for that matter -- and speak, as does most people, if the "standing and speaking" is not illegal and does not interfere and/or disrupt the specific proceedings of the organization. The operative word, however, "what": What is he saying "before this board" that is of any great significance and magnitude? Plenty folk simply enjoy the sound of their own voice. Ashley just happens to be one of a multitude of people who fall into this category. His "choice" to speak, rather than "not speak" is not a great phenomenon of magnaminous proportions.
2. Clyde Ashley's "courteously" presenting faculty issues in meetings? How else should they be addressed? With screams, shouts, threats, hollers, and disrespect? If he does not "courteously" address a body of listeners, he most certainly will not be allowed to present whatever he deems need to be heard. Remember the "Don't taze be" student at UF who insisted on disrupting John Kerry's speech? Should Ashley behave in this manner or similarly?
3. Asking that Clyde Ashley be "commended" is not a "doing something." It's more like an "asking something" of someone else on Ashley's behalf. Big Difference.
4. The man's "support" of the SBI-8? I do believe that the University's impending pocketbook payout spoke louder than Clyde Ashley ever dared to do. So, the SBI-8 has Ashley to thank for the closure and resolution of their case? The man caused more harm than good. I believe those affected professors were quite capable of making their own case be heard. They did, eventually.
What Ashley does/do/has done/will, in most likelihood, continue to do, is establish himself as a man who talks loudly but says, quite frankly, nothing.
When the both of you are able to offer something of substance in support of Clyde Ashley's advocacy on behalf of faculty members, come back here, and let us begin this conversation again.
The FAMU Player Hater's Ball, in effect. Let the hating continue...!
ReplyDeletei don't see any hate, 7:23. what i do see is a discourse regarding clyde ashley. it's interesting that as soon as someone says anything remotely coherent on this board, folks want to say that people are 'hatin'. not so.
ReplyDeleteDITTO - Post 11:53 a.m.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the REAL Rattler Nation!!!?
"Interesting that Rattler nation sees fit to mention Clyde Ashley but doesn't have the balls to put anything up about the Ammons/ Eddie Long/NCCU SACS problem nor the balls to put up anything about Kilpatrick and the Detroit problem.
Where, oh where, has the rattlernation back bone gone...Oh where, oh where, is it hiding....?"
can we move on from Ashley's $$? Let's talk about James Ammons' & Eddie Long's involvement in that unaccredited sham of a school they were running, you know . . . the one that Ammons, as president of NCCU, didn't know a thing about. Yeah, right.
ReplyDeleteGive us some REAL news here, RN, not this fluff stuff about Clyde Ashley's lotto winnings. Folks win lotto $$ every day. Ashley just happens to be a FAMU employee. Winners work everywhere. And y'all posters need to equally give this mess of a story a rest. Dang.
THE SBI PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IS SUPPOSED TO "GET THE GHETTO OUT OF THE STUDENTS."
ReplyDeletePEOPLE OUT OF THE GHETTO DO NOT PLAY THE LOTTO. IT IS A TAX ON MORONS.
WAY TO SHOW YOUR GHETTO CREDENTIALS MR. PD... OR IS THAT DR. PD?
LETS TEACH OUR STUDENTS TO START AN ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURE OR TO HANDLE THEMSELVES IN A CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT... LETS NOT TEACH THEM TO GAMBLE.
A FREAKIN PD PROFESSOR GAMBLING.... SIGH...
THAT'S LIKE THE PREACHER THAT GOT CAUGHT WITH THE HOOKER. IT JUST AINT RIGHT...THE MESSAGE IS NOT CONFIRMED BY THE LIFESTYLE.
You guys are a bunch of sad idiots. The man hit the lotto...good for him.
ReplyDeleteNow what is the bashing of him about. Hell, any and everybody play the lottery. What does him being a PD professor have to do with anything? Geesh....
"Hell, any and everybody play the lottery."
ReplyDeleteI have never played the lottery.
Rich people don't play...that is one of the mindsets that make them rich.
They do not take risks when the odds are overwhelmingly against them.
Rather than playing the lottery, you would be better off just burning your dollar bills in the fireplace. At least you would save a little bit on the heating bill.
Only a broke mf would worry about someone ELSES money. You are some sad azz people.
ReplyDeleteThis has moved on from a discussion of Ashely to a discussion of the stupidity of playing the lottery. God bless Ashley. Do you play the lotto? How much have you spent? How much have you made? What is your return on that investment>
ReplyDeleteSOME FOLKS WIL NOT CHANGE...DR. A PLEASE GET THAT SCHOLARSHIP BALL ROLLING!
ReplyDeleteI'm a native Floridian, and I've lived in Florida all my life. I remember in '88 when the Lottery "first came to Florida." Plenty folks went wild, crazy, and simply lost their minds and have never found them. I've never, ever played the lottery. I don't know a thing about picking "quick six" (or is it eight?) But I've heard people in stores and folks I know figuring out what numbers to play. It's not my thing, but I don't knock what other folks do with their time and money. I've Never even purchased a ticket -- not even the scratch-off kind. So the poster who said that "everyone plays" the lottery needs to STFU.
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