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Post by aggieforlife on Jun 14, 2019 6:51:11 GMT -5
The Rattlers have been in a Mess since trying to go Full D1 in Football..
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Post by captaggie on Jun 14, 2019 7:53:30 GMT -5
From an athletic perspective, they act upon their desires vs. their reality. They are us in the wrong direction.
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Post by Maxell on Jun 14, 2019 8:53:17 GMT -5
From an athletic perspective, they act upon their desires vs. their reality. They are us in the wrong direction. WHY would you just do that when YOU KNOW it's not allowed? ...and you know folk in Florida are looking for an excuse. SMDH
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Post by aggierattler on Jun 14, 2019 11:02:58 GMT -5
From an athletic perspective, they act upon their desires vs. their reality. They are us in the wrong direction. WHY would you just do that when YOU KNOW it's not allowed? ...and you know folk in Florida are looking for an excuse. SMDH RIGHT!! Hell...the folks making the rules are a mere 7 blocks away from their campus. smh
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Post by Aggie One on Jun 18, 2019 11:15:02 GMT -5
Internal audit of Florida A&M athletics funding led to red flags on auxiliary monies Byron Dobson Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 17, 2019
The fresh discovery of Florida A&M University’s practice of using unauthorized auxiliary funds to cover expenses in its athletics department dates to at least the fall of 2016 —just before university officials appeared before a Board of Governors committee to present a repayment plan for the same infractions committed in previous years. The latest revelations surfaced last week, resulting in the June 7 forced resignation of Wanda Ford, vice president for finance and administration and the university’s CFO, and the firings last week of Ronica Mathis, director of university budgets, and Tiffany Holmes, university controller and assistant vice president. Ford was the university’s third-highest ranking official. Joe Maleszewski, the university’s vice president of audit, said Friday the university won’t know the extent of the practice — a violation of the Board of Governors policy — until an audit is completed by Aug. 1 by an outside firm the university has been forced to hire. Using unauthorized funds to cover athletic shortfalls has plagued Florida A&M since at least 2008, which was revealed in a 2014 Auditor General’s report citing accumulated cash deficits for athletics being covered by the transfer of funds from auxiliaries to pay down the debts. That led to the university having to get a repayment plan approved by the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Board of Governors, the body overseeing the State University System, on Sept. 21, 2016. That repayment plan was for 12 years. Now FAMU faces another challenge. “While other programs in the state may have had challenges in balancing their budgets, there are no Auditor General findings indicating similar issues at other state universities,” Maleszewski said. For the rest of the story:www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2019/06/17/internal-audit-famu-athletics-led-red-flags-auxiliary-monies/1463525001/
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Post by aggierattler on Aug 25, 2019 15:14:41 GMT -5
From the Opinion Page of the Tallahassee Democrat...
Rattlers need to work together, stop finger-pointing
Serious finger-pointing, discord and downright feuding is widespread in some areas of the Rattler nation. Years ago, these feuds would have gone practically unnoticed. With today’s technology and ease of access to social media networks, even small “family” battles can explode.
Folks are upset – and they have every right to be so – about what’s happening at the university.
Specifically, the Department of Athletics has had issues that date back 15 years, to 2004. Leading up to that time, former head Rattler football coach Ken Riley was serving as the athletics director. He had managed to maintain fiscal balance, leaving his final year with a near $2-million surplus.
Riley was ousted shortly thereafter, move that still strikes dissonance with alumni today. The administration, it appears, was forced by trustees to pursue Division I-A status at that time. The single but critical blunder began a snowball effect from which FAMU Athletics has not been able to recover.
The $2 million Riley left behind was spent recklessly, leaving the department more than $2 million in debt – in only one year. If a university president thinks an athletics director can find the cure, he or she is misguided. If alumni think the president can cure this issue, they are misguided. If the athletics director thinks the trustees can cure it, then the director has no clue.
There really is only one clear solution to getting athletics back on course: an overall collaboration of athletics policy to include funding, operations, fundraising, oversight and communications. This can’t be done with a focus group, a consultant or an adviser.
The president and his leadership team, the director of athletics and his staff, the Rattler Boosters, the FAMU National Alumni Association, the FAMU Foundation and the FAMU Board of Trustees need at least a three-day retreat to begin the development of a plan to chart a direction for a successful athletics department.
If this level of importance is not placed on the matter and knee-jerk reactions continue to be the only way policies are developed, the failures of athletics will continue In recent history, FAMU presidents have helped sink athletics directors and athletic directors have helped sink presidencies. Without a dedicated effort to solidify the department that is easily one of the most visible departments at not only FAMU, but also the nation’s majority of schools, we will continue to have discord, blunders and outright failures. The pots have boiled over for some alumni and while the FAMU National Alumni Association has clearly gone above and beyond to try to mediate the issues with athletics, they have now become the target of the frustrations themselves.
FAMU was founded in 1887. It has been through numerous trials and tribulations over the years, and its storied leaders have had to resort to unconventional techniques to navigate the institution’s future. Today’s dysfunction of athletics must be addressed accordingly, or the story of FAMU athletics will be irreparably damaged.
Vaughn Wilson is a former two-time All-American football player at FAMU. He worked for 10 years in FAMU Athletics, most recently as associate athletic director for media relations.
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