Post by Aggie One on Oct 3, 2019 22:44:19 GMT -5
Jeff Mills: A&T basketball coach Jay Joyner changes approach, but keeps championship goals
By Jeff Mills jeff.mills@greensboro.com
GREENSBORO — In the daylight and hot summer temperatures of the first day of October, it was quiet inside Club Corbett.
Well, quiet by comparison, anyway.
The seats and bleachers were empty inside N.C. A&T’s Corbett Sports Center. The “Dawg Pound” student section was vacant. No pep band. No D.J. pumping hip-hop music through the sound system.
An eerie quiet, broken only by the squeak of new sneakers on the wood court, the talk from new players running through drills and an occasional coach’s whistle.
Jay Joyner, now in his fourth full season as A&T’s head coach, ran his new group through the first basketball practice of the year.
“New team. Same expectations,” Joyner said. “We want to win a championship. We want one of those.”
Joyner pointed to the rafters above the cozy pit of a gym, to the banners honoring A&T’s title teams.
The Aggies went 13-3 in the MEAC last season. They’re 23-2 at home the last two seasons, and one of just 14 NCAA Division I teams with an active home winning streak of at least 10 games.
For the rest of the story:
www.greensboro.com/sports/jeff-mills-a-t-basketball-coach-jay-joyner-changes-approach/article_7c58849f-2225-5d70-8026-69c8fad290cb.html
By Jeff Mills jeff.mills@greensboro.com
GREENSBORO — In the daylight and hot summer temperatures of the first day of October, it was quiet inside Club Corbett.
Well, quiet by comparison, anyway.
The seats and bleachers were empty inside N.C. A&T’s Corbett Sports Center. The “Dawg Pound” student section was vacant. No pep band. No D.J. pumping hip-hop music through the sound system.
An eerie quiet, broken only by the squeak of new sneakers on the wood court, the talk from new players running through drills and an occasional coach’s whistle.
Jay Joyner, now in his fourth full season as A&T’s head coach, ran his new group through the first basketball practice of the year.
“New team. Same expectations,” Joyner said. “We want to win a championship. We want one of those.”
Joyner pointed to the rafters above the cozy pit of a gym, to the banners honoring A&T’s title teams.
The Aggies went 13-3 in the MEAC last season. They’re 23-2 at home the last two seasons, and one of just 14 NCAA Division I teams with an active home winning streak of at least 10 games.
For the rest of the story:
www.greensboro.com/sports/jeff-mills-a-t-basketball-coach-jay-joyner-changes-approach/article_7c58849f-2225-5d70-8026-69c8fad290cb.html
