Forget about Bill Hayes showing his face around FAMU after his last day on December 31st. He’s done with Tallahassee.
Hayes says that regardless of whether or not he lands the athletic director post at Winston-Salem State, he’s bidding farewell to Florida’s capital city and moving back to Winston-Salem, N.C.
"We have a home there still and we are coming back there to live no matter what happens," Hayes said. "I bet I've spent about three months total in that house since 1987."
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Hayes has spent lots of cash renovating his house in N.C. He plans to sell his current Tallahassee home.
The lame duck FAMU AD also gave some comedic remarks to the media.
"I've learned so much in how to build programs, raise money, and how to have booster clubs and halls of fames," Hayes said.
At FAMU, Hayes demonstrated the quality of his money raising skills by taking the athletic department from a $2.6M deficit to a $5.7M deficit. His brilliant fundraising plan was to ask students to bail him out by hiking up the athletic fee.
He used his great program-building experience to give FAMU an embarrassingly amateurish and sparsely updated athletic website. Hayes also showed his management skills by picking fights with coaches who were doing the best they could with severely limited resources and hurling the track program into a state of chaos.
Hayes says that regardless of whether or not he lands the athletic director post at Winston-Salem State, he’s bidding farewell to Florida’s capital city and moving back to Winston-Salem, N.C.
"We have a home there still and we are coming back there to live no matter what happens," Hayes said. "I bet I've spent about three months total in that house since 1987."
According to the Winston-Salem Journal, Hayes has spent lots of cash renovating his house in N.C. He plans to sell his current Tallahassee home.
The lame duck FAMU AD also gave some comedic remarks to the media.
"I've learned so much in how to build programs, raise money, and how to have booster clubs and halls of fames," Hayes said.
At FAMU, Hayes demonstrated the quality of his money raising skills by taking the athletic department from a $2.6M deficit to a $5.7M deficit. His brilliant fundraising plan was to ask students to bail him out by hiking up the athletic fee.
He used his great program-building experience to give FAMU an embarrassingly amateurish and sparsely updated athletic website. Hayes also showed his management skills by picking fights with coaches who were doing the best they could with severely limited resources and hurling the track program into a state of chaos.
Great Job Bill Hayes. You left FAMU is good shape.
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FAMU will continue to be in bad shape if they don't raise student-athletic fees. There is not enough
ReplyDeletegate funds or donations to fund a 11 million dollar athletic program. Stop fooling yourself,its not just Hayes its you supporters too. We have the lowest athletic fee in the MEAC.
Hayes' athletic fee revenue projections don't make any sense. He based them on the assumption that student course loads are going to remain the same for the next several years.
ReplyDeleteBut we've already seen that FAMU students are taking smaller course loads year after year. FAMU's lack of housing makes the cost of college here much more expensive than other schools that have lots of campus housing. That's why students are taking smaller course loads. Raising the athletic fee only adds to the problem.
With students taking smaller course loads, the athletic fee revenue might very well go down. Hayes isn't basing his fee projetions on reality.