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Post by lobengula on Dec 12, 2021 11:28:58 GMT -5
When I referenced Coach Gaither I was speaking in terms of historic continuity in that it he who laid the foundations for FAMU Football nothing against Coach Billy Joe nor those afterward. I take my brother was being facetious. I think to turn this thing around we got to think anew. I would suggest that we seek volunteers such as Raynard and other to assist and pay them. We need eyes in the booth to communicate with coaches on the side line to make situational adjustments and pay them. Also in this vein why was the strength coach forced out? The conditions of the playing field should have never been a hot topic of discussion that is and and always will be a Building and Grounds issue. The scoreboard issues should never have been so embarrassing with a world class schools of engineering. Finally perhaps there needs to be a forensic accounting initiated by this site done by those with the expertise whose loyalty is to the University inclusive of its mission statement as well as its historic mission.
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Post by DOOMS on Dec 12, 2021 11:46:46 GMT -5
Gaither coached in an era of segregation in a state where the majority of black high school coaches of the era had actually played for him or at FAMU. He retired in part due to desegregation.
Mentioning him in regards to our current situation is irrelevant for those reasons.
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Post by saabman on Dec 12, 2021 22:37:23 GMT -5
When I referenced Coach Gaither I was speaking in terms of historic continuity in that it he who laid the foundations for FAMU Football nothing against Coach Billy Joe nor those afterward. I take my brother was being facetious. I think to turn this thing around we got to think anew. I would suggest that we seek volunteers such as Raynard and other to assist and pay them. We need eyes in the booth to communicate with coaches on the side line to make situational adjustments and pay them. Also in this vein why was the strength coach forced out? The conditions of the playing field should have never been a hot topic of discussion that is and and always will be a Building and Grounds issue. The scoreboard issues should never have been so embarrassing with a world class schools of engineering. Finally perhaps there needs to be a forensic accounting initiated by this site done by those with the expertise whose loyalty is to the University inclusive of its mission statement as well as its historic mission. A lot of your assessment can be solved by graduate assistants and it will only cost A&T Books , Room and Board and a stipend .
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Post by VA's Finest on Dec 17, 2021 19:13:24 GMT -5
Could this be an opportunity to fill a need...
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Post by aggieclt on Jan 12, 2022 10:58:26 GMT -5
Please accept my apology if this has been previously posted. As HBCU football deals with realignment, the Celebration Bowl still holds its appealThe Celebration Bowl reconvenes Saturday in Atlanta after one pandemic cancellation, two years of waiting and three jarring conference reconfigurations. It looks different and maybe even misshapen, as does all college football from time to realigned time. Does it retain its churning meaning? Two key pieces of evidence shout the following: Yes. The Celebration Bowl, the historically Black college and university national-title-claim game, has a six-year contract with ESPN, and it has just gone and sold out Mercedes-Benz Stadium, that funky spaceship on the Atlanta skyline, a first for this seven-year-old, six-edition-old event. Might it last a hundred years, as wise souls projected back in 2019 when life was sort of normal? “Man, I sure hope so,” retired coach Rod Broadway, who won it twice with North Carolina A&T, said by phone from North Carolina, “because it’s such a beautiful event.” He predicted it long could benefit from one aspect: “And I think the goal and the direction that it’s taken, it’s not just a bowl game; it’s a social event.” For the rest of the story: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/12/17/celebration-bowl-jackson-state-south-carolina-state/
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 12, 2022 11:30:42 GMT -5
No problem, but that article has been posted already.
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Post by pj on Jan 13, 2022 21:12:46 GMT -5
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Post by davidjamson on Jan 29, 2022 7:42:02 GMT -5
According to me, The golden period definitely comes once in the life of every player, and it is natural and whatever he does, he keeps on happening.
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Post by bseballaggie on Jan 29, 2022 10:36:48 GMT -5
The Question! Where do we go from here? Can Coach Washington raise the program to the next level and stablize it. Will we get there with wobbly legs and fall again. There has to be a greater commitment to winning, than loyalty to coaches. If the reigning FCS Champ for 9 years change Coaches 5 times in that time span, it suggest that a fine tuning in 1 to 2 year spans has to take place within the Coaching staffs. If you look at what the reigning national Champs Coach is paid, vs ours, how do you motivate a Coach to push harder IJS saying the 9 year champs base is just a few dollars away from ours. We can’t go to a number above $300k for the production we are witnessing in comparison.
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Post by davidjamson on Feb 27, 2022 1:40:14 GMT -5
A big giveaway to the A&T football team For nearly 130 years, we at North Carolina A&T have believed in the power of our students to change the world. And they are necessary for all players.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 28, 2022 8:52:26 GMT -5
Martin: "Truist Stadium will be our home for football games. It needs some major renovations, additions, closing in the horseshoe, going up with capacity, providing additional spaces for coaching staff, weight rooms, training rooms – really accommodating facilities for athletics overall and certainly for football." Q: How much per year in the athletics department budget ($15.4 million in 2019-20) would it take to achieve some of those competitive goals?Martin: "We've got to add much more substantially to the operations of athletics: New personnel, additional coaching staff for some of these teams, additional scholarships for our teams and the new sports that we expect to add over time as well. "It's hard to say a dollar amount, but for us to be thinking that we can compete as successfully as we want to compete with a total athletics budget of anything less than $25 million would not be reasonable." Q: If you can take a look out five years from now, what would you see? What would be successful for A&T athletics?Martin: "When I look at athletics, I see successful student-athletes in the classrooms, maintaining their eligibility, graduating and doing other things. And potentially playing at the next level. "We'll see a sprinkling of competitive championships across a variety of sports in the Colonial Athletic Association, not just in football and basketball but in some of those Olympic sports, like track or golf or tennis, for example, where we've got to continue to lift up the sport. I'll see soccer and potentially some other sports that we've brought to this campus. "You'll see new athletics facilities on this campus or substantially transformed facilities. And you'll see a sustainable budget that allows us to ensure that we maintain our competitiveness and continue to build on our competitiveness. We would have far exceeded the objectives we set for athletics in five years." Read more: greensboro.com/sports/college/a-t-chancellor-harold-martin-on-the-cost-of-being-competitive-in-the-colonial-athletic/article_09e25076-950b-11ec-99e6-cb6d0bf80162.html
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Post by trues on Mar 4, 2022 11:08:22 GMT -5
So it really is a 10 million gap we going to have to make up. I agree we cannot put this all on the ad and a Chancellor but I am curious on how they plan to mitigate this Gap and clearly it will have to be over time.
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Post by DOOMS on Mar 4, 2022 12:22:59 GMT -5
It's way more than a 10 million dollar gap. We've been operating at a much lower financial capacity than these other schools since, well since 1891. We can't just all of a sudden get the money to be in the middle/lower-middle of the pack of these athletic departments that have been running consistently at a higher percentage of cash forever and think "ok, now we're on an even playing field."
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Post by trues on Mar 4, 2022 13:48:42 GMT -5
It's way more than a 10 million dollar gap. We've been operating at a much lower financial capacity than these other schools since, well since 1891. We can't just all of a sudden get the money to be in the middle/lower-middle of the pack of these athletic departments that have been running consistently at a higher percentage of cash forever and think "ok, now we're on an even playing field." It SAYS our budget is around 15.4m and we need to get around 25m to be competitive. I don't disagree it want come over night. I would just like for the Martin to explain how he is going about to raise this kind of money or does he really know?
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 4, 2022 15:07:37 GMT -5
correct me if i'm wrong, but an "athletics budget" is basically an "operating budget", not a "physical assets" budget. so in other words, my understanding is that the "athletics budget" is the annual funding necessary to run our athletics department for expenses such as salaries, travel costs, recruiting costs, stadium operations, scholarships, et cetera.
so even "if" we're able to increase our "athletics budget", where is the money gonna come from to upgrade our facilities? its already been stated that the aggie stadium upgrade on sullivan street would cost approximately $20 million. sidenote: personally, i oppose that upgrade cuz it does "nothing" for recruiting nor the current players on the team.
but the question remains, where is the money gonna come from to upgrade our facilities? we still haven't raised the $20 million for the sullivan street upgrade which was suppose to have broken ground roughly 2 years ago...
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