Tim Young and Cedric Perry didn’t appreciate what Orlando Sentinel Sports Columnist Shannon J. Owens had to say about the MEAC/SWAC Challenge-Orlando Classic controversy. And in Sunday’s paper, they both let her know it.On August 31st, Owens sneeringly dismissed FAMU and Bethune-Cookman University’s boycott of the MEAC/SWAC Challenge in Orlando. For 11 years, the two universities’ football teams met in the city’s Orange Bowl for a classic game sponsored by the Walt Disney Company.
However, when MEAC and SWAC officials decided to move their opening-year exhibition game to Orlando, Disney pulled its financial support from the FAMU/B-CU matchup. In response, FAMU and B-CU’s presidents jointly declared their opposition and vowed not to participate in the Challenge.
Owens chided the two universities, writing that they were “throwing a tantrum” and that “someone forgot to burp the administrators.”
Young took her task in his letter to the Sentinel’s sports editor. “You don't build up a market and share it with another institution,” he asserted. “This game is the backbone in terms of revenue for both schools…Also, why support a game when your lead title sponsor gives you a short notice that they will not sponsor the Florida Classic in the future?”
Perry shared a similar perspective. “I do not disagree with FAMU and B-CU for wanting to keep the annual game the highest attended game in the FCS Division I for at least the last six years,” he wrote. “Why don't you try writing some B-CU and FAMU positive pregame articles for a change…”
Read their full letters here.
If you feel the same, then please contact Owens at sjowens@orlandosentinel.com or write a letter to the editor.
Also see: FAMU & BCU solidly against Orlando-based "Challenge"
If we can just come up with some sort of moniker for Castell Bryant so that her name is not mentioned anythwere within the annals of FAMU's history, that would be a wonderful thing. How about, from this day forward, referring to her as "TWPIFH"?: "The Worst President in FAMU's History" or "FWP": "FAMU's Worst President." Anyone would know to whom we're referring, unless, of course, they thought we were referring to Fred Gainous, who runs a mighty doggone close second.
ReplyDeleteHow about we not refer to her at all. Besides, she was never PRESIDENT of this university and her picture will never hang on the President's Wall. Hopefully one day her time in the top office will be just as forgotten, as say, Henry Lewis' (not that he was a bad interim, but that he was just an interim).
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