WSSU's Maynor seeking A&T Job

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College Football Notebook: WSSU's Maynor seeking A&T job
By JOURNAL STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
Published: December 11, 2010
www2.journalnow.com/sports/2010/dec/11/1/wssus-maynor-seeking-at-job-ar-528138/

Connell Maynor, who led Winston-Salem State to an 8-2 record in his first season as a head coach, has applied for the vacant head coach’s position at N.C. A&T, his alma mater.

Maynor was a three-year starter for the Aggies in the 1990s and graduated in 1995. Athletics Director Bill Hayes of WSSU said he knew Maynor had applied but said that alone doesn’t mean much.

“I know when I was a young coach, I applied to a lot of places, too,” said Hayes, the all-time wins leader at A&T with a 106-64 record and Maynor’s former college coach.

Maynor, 41, could not be reached for comment yesterday. He signed a five-year contract with WSSU worth $90,000 a year.

A&T is looking for a replacement for Alonzo Lee, who was fired after two seasons and a 1-10 record this season.

Maynor also applied for the job at A&T two years ago after Lee Fobbs was fired, but did not get an interview and remained at Fayetteville State, where he spent 10 seasons as an assistant.

[Aggie One]

If Henry Frazier decides no, then Connell has about 90 percent chance this time around because Broadway and us are way apart on money.

[aggierattler]

Frazier and Broadway should be the only two horses in this race. And we should be offering a base salary of $200,000 per season. It's amazing to me how we feel that we (Aggie Athletics) can't raise the funds to support these necessities, while lesser schools like Elon, Tennessee State, Samford, FAMU and Georgia Southern do it year-in and year-out.

[Brandmasta]

Dec 12, 2010 22:28:38 GMT -5 aggierattler said:

Frazier and Broadway should be the only two horses in this race. And we should be offering a base salary of $200,000 per season. It's amazing to me how we feel that we (Aggie Athletics) can't raise the funds to support these necessities, while lesser schools like Elon, Tennessee State, Samford, FAMU and Georgia Southern do it year-in and year-out.

Why are those lesser schools? If you were talking about engineering then that would be one thing, but we dont have a winning record against any of them when it comes to football. (we havent played Samford yet)

[DOOMS]

That was just a poor post.

The one time Georgia Southern paid $200,000, he got them a losing record and left after a year. Georgia Southern is one of those schools that is smart enough to pay a lower salary and put their money into the support.

Which one of the "lesser" schools cited had administrators showing up just before the first game of the season yanking upwards of 13 players off the sidelines, only to lie about the number of players the following Monday?

Which one of the "lesser" schools only has around 45 scholarships to give.

Which one of the "lesser" schools' coaches have to walk kids to class because there's an inadequate academic support system in place?

I'd be shocked to know that any of the "lesser" schools has a lower budget than ours.

One of the main reasons we are where we are is because people won't acknowledge the truth about where we are.

[bseballaggie]

Dec 11, 2010 19:43:57 GMT -5 Aggie One said:

If Henry Frazier decides no, then Connell has about 90 percent chance this time around because Broadway and us are way apart on money.

Does this mean we have offered the gig to Frazier?

[Aggie77]

Dec 13, 2010 6:45:05 GMT -5 DOOMS said:

One of the main reasons we are where we are is because people won't acknowledge the truth about where we are.

That because for some reason we think we have an Oracle somewhere in the Dowdy Building. The leadership needs to come from there, but I convinced the solutions will not.

[Aggie One]

Elon pays its coach a relatively modest 110K base plus an incentive package, so I don't see A&T offering anyone a 200K base.

[oleschoolaggie]

Dec 13, 2010 6:45:17 GMT -5 bseballaggie said:

Dec 11, 2010 19:43:57 GMT -5 Aggie One said:

If Henry Frazier decides no, then Connell has about 90 percent chance this time around because Broadway and us are way apart on money.

Does this mean we have offered the gig to Frazier?

hope so, and lawd knows i don't want him going to central...

[treese]

Dec 13, 2010 8:54:38 GMT -5 oleschoolaggie said:

Dec 13, 2010 6:45:17 GMT -5 bseballaggie said:

Does this mean we have offered the gig to Frazier?

hope so, and lawd knows i don't want him going to central...

Central is going after Coach Frazier hard!

[DECKS]

Dec 13, 2010 8:43:38 GMT -5 Aggie One said:

Elon pays its coach a relatively modest 110K base plus an incentive package, so I don't see A&T offering anyone a 200K base.

I think we need to have a similar package. At one time NSU paid Adrian $90k plus performance incentives.
We need to put more money into getting seasoned assistant coaches.

[DOOMS]

and into things like making sure players are eligible way before the first game of the season, retaining players, getting them proper academic assistance, athletics department support, an actual AD who doesn't have a side business selling fitness tapes, etc....

[aggierattler]

Dec 12, 2010 22:28:38 GMT -5 aggierattler said:

Frazier and Broadway should be the only two horses in this race. And we should be offering a base salary of $200,000 per season. It's amazing to me how we feel that we (Aggie Athletics) can't raise the funds to support these necessities, while lesser schools like Elon, Tennessee State, Samford, FAMU and Georgia Southern do it year-in and year-out.

OK...you guys missed my point, and I probably didn't do a great job in stating my case, either.

With all that A&T Athletics has to offer, I don't understand why they can't go out, beat-the-bushes between Raleigh and Charlotte, and raise the money needed to grow their budget to where it should be. With the corporate community that is located within that I-85 Corridor, it should be fairly easy to raise $1.5 million or so within 18 months.

I was challenged with raising funds for FAMU Athletics from 2006-2009, and we had to go out and really get in CEOs faces on a daily basis. Those of you who have been to Tallahassee know what we were facing...there is very little corporate and/or "big business" presence within 165 miles of the city.

*we divided the city into quardrants and literally went door-to-door to smaller businesses to seek their financal support;

*we visited with the decision-makers of every single company that did business with the University to seek their financial support;

*we became active members in the Chamber of Commerce and had a face-to-face meeting with the CEOs of every C of C member;

*we visited with the decision-makers of every single business that was listed in Florida State's football game program as a supporter of Seminole Athletics to seek their financial support;

*we visited with the decision-makers of the major corporations within the state of Florida (from Miami-to-Jacksonville-to-Pensacola) to seek their financial support;

*during the summer, we took all of the coaches, the AD and the SID to alumni events (set-up by the SID) around the state to promote support of the program by the alums;

*the Rattler Boosters stepped up their game, increasing their direct support from $17,000 in 2005 to $500,000 in 2009 (plus the purchase of video scoreboards for the football stadium and the new basketball arena;

There was much more, but I'll stop with that. However, all of that work did net a little over $2 million of renewable support in 24 months.

I'm an Aggie born and bred, and I hate seeing that we are not even scratching the surface of our full potential in Athletics. I know that it's not easy having to deal with all of the schools in North Carolina when it comes to financial support for Athletics, but A&T also has a much-larger business and corporate community to work with.

I just want us to WIN...at the bank and on the field.

P.S. - Bill Hayes' "1,000 STRIKES" campaign was very successful with alumni around the State and with small, white-owned businesses in Tallahassee that needed to show support of the local black university without spending a lot of money. His concept could be a gold mine for A&T in Greensboro with small, white-owned businesses that need to show support of the local black university without spending a lot of money.

[DOOMS]

Ahhhh, that makes sense.

I still wouldn't pay no 200 grand. We've overpaid for every coach since Small.

That's interesting about Hayes, since a number of folks seem to feel we shouldn't hire him. This despite the fact he proved a more than capable fundraiser when he was coach and shouldn't have had to worry about it in the first place.

On the other hand, our biggest concern now is grades, and we just fired a guy who was getting that together. Why hire people who can actually fix stuff when we can hire guys who are lite-skint?

[Deleted]

Dec 13, 2010 9:54:29 GMT -5 DOOMS said:

and into things like making sure players are eligible way before the first game of the season, retaining players, getting them proper academic assistance, athletics department support, an actual AD who doesn't have a side business selling fitness tapes, etc....

yep...