Two days after the FAMU football team’s sixth consecutive loss
at Bragg Memorial Stadium, its kicking and special teams coach submitted his resignation.
Juan Vasquez, who has served in the position since 2008,
said he decided to take his career in a different direction.
“I had some opportunities came up that were beneficial to me
and I thought that was the best decision for me to make,” Vasquez said in a
quote published by the Tallahassee Democrat. “It had nothing to do with [Head
Coach Earl Holmes] or the team. It’s just that the opportunity came up in the
middle of the football season.”
Holmes, who accepted the two-week notice, told the newspaper
that he did not terminate Vasquez.
Vasquez, a 2006 alumnus of FAMU, was a star kicker during
his days on the Rattler football team and holds the university’s career record
for field goals made (66, from 2000 to 2003).
He served as a student assistant coach for the FAMU football
team from 2004 through 2006. In 2007, he became the special teams coach for the
FAMU Development Research School. Then, the next year, Vasquez returned to the FAMU
football team as the kicking and special teams coach.