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Post by DOOMS on Sept 1, 2011 10:32:32 GMT -5
www2.journalnow.com/sports/2011/sep/01/wssss07-broadway-ready-to-play-ar-1348400/Broadway ready to play By: JOHN DELL | Winston-Salem Journal Published: September 01, 2011 » Comments | Post a Comment Another coaching era has started at N.C. A&T. This time, Rod Broadway, who left Grambling State, has been charged with trying to resurrect one of the most underachieving programs in the MEAC. N.C. A&T has gone a combined 25-66 since Bill Hayes was fired after the 2002 season. The Aggies were 1-10 last season, with losses to rivals Winston-Salem State and N.C. Central, and the Alonzo Lee era ended abruptly after only two seasons. "Well if you keep replacing the same part on your car, and it still keeps breaking down, then that part might not be the problem," Broadway said of the task ahead. "What we're trying to do is find the root of the problem, make it better, so that the entire athletics department can be successful..." more at link above
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Post by Bornthrilla on Sept 1, 2011 10:42:04 GMT -5
I guess the writer doesn't know that Graham is not playing this season.
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Sept 1, 2011 11:26:55 GMT -5
"Well if you keep replacing the same part on your car, and it still keeps breaking down, then that part might not be the problem," Broadway said of the task ahead. "What we're trying to do is find the root of the problem, make it better, so that the entire athletics department can be successful..."
Man, the more I hear from Broadway the more I like the guy. Just tell me the truth coach. Don't sugar coat it. It won't happen tomorrow, but if we give him the support he needs we will see this thing trun around.
I really feel for the first time in a long time that we have more than just a coach...we have a leader.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 1, 2011 11:54:44 GMT -5
what kind of crap is this when the journal provides more coverage of a&t football than the n&r? i mean, where's the n&r's aggie football coverage? they report more on high schools than a&t. is it possible the journal realizes this and is now going after the a&t market? greensboro news and record, this is shameful! we're your hometown team and we get more ink from winston salem than greensboro. yet, let something bad happen at a&t. then we'll make the n&r front page headlines...
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Post by oldschool on Sept 1, 2011 13:00:07 GMT -5
Can't agree with you on this , if you read the article ,he's just rehashing what already has been said before in the N&R. Also this is the first article I've seen from them. It's also not accurate, in regards to Graham. I understand your frustration with N&R and A&T ,but not this time my friend. Lets save our bullets for when we really need them.
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Post by saabman on Sept 1, 2011 13:22:38 GMT -5
I see a change a coming . And I do love it so!!
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Post by trues on Sept 1, 2011 13:38:07 GMT -5
Yes Oldschool you right it may not be true but at least they have something positive to say. I mean it take a Winston Salem Paper to bring about news with regards to A&T football Team. That's ridicules. I have not seen sheeet from N&R ever since they printed the young man who died during Track Practice a week or two ago.
I see where they have had about 4 or 5 article covering WSSU a DIV II school over the last couple weeks and we can't get one.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 1, 2011 15:58:31 GMT -5
Can't agree with you on this , if you read the article ,he's just rehashing what already has been said before in the N&R. Also this is the first article I've seen from them. It's also not accurate, in regards to Graham. I understand your frustration with N&R and A&T ,but not this time my friend. Lets save our bullets for when we really need them. i hear ya, oldschool. but i personally haven't seen an article on a&t football in the n&r in well over 3 weeks. maybe i missed something, but here we are a mere 2 days away from opening day and still no aggie football preview or nothing. the last time the n&r even "mentioned" aggie football was on 8/12 and when i say "mentioned", i literally mean "mentioned". they only gave us about 3 sentences and the article was "shared" with greensboro college and guilford college. 3 sentences! meanwhile, wssu seemingly gets articles in the journal almost every other day (of course i'm exaggerating) but hopefully you get my point. the last article on a&t sports in the n&r (other than today's announcement of our new baseball coach) came on 8/19 and it had the following headline " Death at N.C. A&T shifts culture". as if the n&r can't find something more positive to report about. sir, in many ways i use to think like you do. i use to think that a lot of aggies were really exaggerating about how the n&r tends not to cover positive news about a&t but are quick to cover negative news. but over time i've come to realize they weren't exaggerating at all. i mean, we're 2 days before opening kickoff and unless there's something wrong with my internet, the n&r hasn't published jack on a&t football in over 3 weeks! and that was only 3 sentences. at least the journal gave us a full article...
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Post by maccarver on Sept 1, 2011 17:20:25 GMT -5
Check tomorrows paper for a pull out section.
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Post by saabman on Sept 1, 2011 19:14:44 GMT -5
I can careless about the N&R are any other news paper! They print what they wont to. Someone may have done a positive story on A&T but if the Head Editor says don't print it they don't and can't print it and that is it. Now If Broadway turns things around and we began to win and continue to show improvement on the APR we will get the good press. That is just the way it is When Your A Winner all the Rats jump on your ship! But when your a Looser they jump off and only look for Negative things to say. Hell I remember a time when I was overseas and would get the N&R from home all I could see on the sports page was something about A&T. You just what and see. That is the bad thing about the media/ people . Winners Sell. But only the Negative sells if your loosing .
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 1, 2011 21:00:18 GMT -5
well, how about this one, saabman. two years ago, our women's basketball team had a "historic" season. winning in the first two rounds of the wnit and beating two higher ranked in state rivals (including the acc's 5th place team, wake forest) at both their homecourts. we "literally" blew out wake forest, took out unc charlotte, and just barely loss to miami by about six points. yet, all the n&r had to say about it was maybe a paragraph and a half buried somewhere in the sports section. even the journal had a full blown article on the wake forest game in their paper.
our women went on to become the "first ever" division one hbcu women's team to advance to the third round of postseason play in ncaa history. first ever! i mean, how much more of a winner does the n&r need?
did the n&r publish a full blown detailed article on our ladies wnit performance? no they didn't. at best, they printed maybe two paragraphs about it and that's all. yet, let uncg's women win a small local two round tournament against low majors and you'll see an in depth writeup on it in the n&r . and certainly not no two paragraphs.
i'm not imagining this stuff, because i've had a very close relative and two other former players i use to coach who played on scholarship for uncg recently. so i followed their team for about five years. and i know for a fact uncg's women got more favorable coverage in the n&r than a&t, even when a&t was winning conference championships.
so i think the n&r bias is live and well. despite our recent losing woes, a&t football still attracts one of the largest home stadium attendance averages for fcs schools in the entire nation. so there's still a significant aggie football market in greensboro and in my opinion, they're being severely "under served" by the n&r...
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Post by oldschool on Sept 1, 2011 21:22:04 GMT -5
Well said bro, shoot for the head .
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Post by aggierattler on Sept 1, 2011 21:28:31 GMT -5
what kind of crap is this when the journal provides more coverage of a&t football than the n&r? i mean, where's the n&r's aggie football coverage? they report more on high schools than a&t. is it possible the journal realizes this and is now going after the a&t market? greensboro news and record, this is shameful! we're your hometown team and we get more ink from winston salem than greensboro. yet, let something bad happen at a&t. then we'll make the n&r front page headlines... I have said for YEARS now that the Greensboro News-Record's sports staff is THE WORSE at covering a hometown non-FBS school in this country...by far! The W-SJ's staff is much better at covering WSSU than the N-R is at covering A&T. If the Winston-Salem Journal's decision-makers could be convinced to cover Aggie Athletics, the effect on the News-Record's bottom line would be very noticable. We tried to get the Tallahassee Democrat to hire John Dell to cover FAMU Athletics some years ago, but it never happened. He does a great job.
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Post by DOOMS on Sept 2, 2011 7:47:03 GMT -5
My thinking is that if the mountain won't come to muhammad, muhammad must go to the mountain.
We've got a journalism department and kids that could use the experience. Send them kids for free to cover our games and practices. Given our sordid history of being tight-lipped about practically everything I can't be quick to blame the N&R for getting tired of trying to fight the school for info.
How did Grambling become Grambling? They wrote their own dam articles and sent the to all the Negro dailies across the country. What exactly keeps us from writing our own in depth articles and submitting them to the N&R? They have panels at our stadium. Methinks if the articles are well-written they would be glad to accept them.
As I've stated numerous times before, it's up to us to control how we are perceived.
Now if we're already doing this and they are refusing to accept articles, then replace the panel on the scoreboard with their name on it with one for the W-S Journal, and ask Aggies to cancel their subscriptions.
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Post by oldschool on Sept 2, 2011 8:26:21 GMT -5
check out today's paper , front page headline, front page of sports section ,and a pullout section.
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