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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2019 8:34:30 GMT -5
FAMU Alumni are fuming after their Track and Field coach abruptly resigned over the weekend. I’ll post more details as they come out. Apparently, the coach got sick and tired of fighting for enough funding so they could have the proper shoes and gear for meets.
I’m sure AggieRattler or 2Real will drop deets as need be.
Developing.
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Post by Aggie One on Mar 18, 2019 10:36:08 GMT -5
FAMU Track Coach Darlene Moore resigns abruptly
March 18th 2019
FAMU’s Director of Track and Field, Darlene Moore, Ed.D, has resigned effective immediately sighting a lack of support. Moore took over the FAMU’s men’s and women’s track programs in 2016, after serving as Head Coach for the Lady Rattlers since 2009. Moore broke the news to her team via a group message, saying “ Yesterday was my last day. Honestly, I have fought a long hard battle to get us the basics such as shoes, uniform and wind suits. I feel that I have not nor have my teams received the support that I wanted to receive from my administration. I am truly sorry.”
The resignation comes on the heels of the Rattlers completing its 2019 FAMU Relays against Tuskegee, FSU, Albany State, and TCC. The 2018 FAMU Relays were abruptly canceled just hours before the start of the event with FAMU sighting the construction of the Center for Access and Student Success, in the Gaither Gym parking lot, as the cause. Despite the lack of support, Moore's teams have had mixed results, but had excelled on in cross country where her teams won seven MEAC Championships. Earlier this year her Lady Rattlers track team finished in 2ndplace in the MEAC Indoor Track Championships. The men’s team was disqualified from participating because of grades. Her women’s teams won outdoor MEAC Championships in 2015, 2016, & 2018. She was named Coach of the Year in 2018. For the rest of the story:www.blogarama.com/business-blogs/44856-rattler-nation-blog/29438844-famu-track-coach-darlene-moore-resigns-abruptly
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 18, 2019 10:52:09 GMT -5
She actually resigned on Thursday evening...and had to be talked into coaching the two days of the FAMU Relays. There are several layers to this situation, but I'll let them reveal that...
...IMHO, she is very unprofessional and her arrogance got the better of her time-after-time. There were quite a few people on their campus who didn't really like working with her, not to mention track coaches and officials from other schools.
The worse thing that she's done is to quit and put their student-athletes in a very bad situation. That's unforgiveable for a coach to do.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 18, 2019 11:05:49 GMT -5
i hear ya, a/r. but she must've done something right having won meac outdoor championships 3 out of the last 4 years. just saying...
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 18, 2019 13:33:20 GMT -5
i hear ya, a/r. but she must've done something right having won meac outdoor championships 3 out of the last 4 years. just saying... |
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Post by saab9002man on Mar 18, 2019 19:49:30 GMT -5
She actually resigned on Thursday evening...and had to be talked into coaching the two days of the FAMU Relays. There are several layers to this situation, but I'll let them reveal that...
...IMHO, she is very unprofessional and her arrogance got the better of her time-after-time. There were quite a few people on their campus who didn't really like working with her, not to mention track coaches and officials from other schools.
The worse thing that she's done is to quit and put their student-athletes in a very bad situation. That's unforgiveable for a coach to do. I think when the facts come out you will find out that the only professional in this mess was the one that resigned . Little birds in the Track and Field Community talk . And also Coaches are human to how many times would you bend over as a Head Coach before you can not take it anymore . Her program was over-achieving with nothing . When you have sprinters wearing unappropriate runners shoes/ spikes and you have to paste uniforms together and you continue to ask for resources and nothing is done what would you do. If they are not going to help your program why stay around and continue to be Butt- F . I wouldn't and neither would you. |
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 18, 2019 22:24:28 GMT -5
She actually resigned on Thursday evening...and had to be talked into coaching the two days of the FAMU Relays. There are several layers to this situation, but I'll let them reveal that...
...IMHO, she is very unprofessional and her arrogance got the better of her time-after-time. There were quite a few people on their campus who didn't really like working with her, not to mention track coaches and officials from other schools.
The worse thing that she's done is to quit and put their student-athletes in a very bad situation. That's unforgiveable for a coach to do. I think when the facts come out you will find out that the only professional in this mess was the one that resigned . Little birds in the Track and Field Community talk . And also Coaches are human to how many times would you bend over as a Head Coach before you can not take it anymore . Her program was over-achieving with nothing . When you have sprinters wearing unappropriate runners shoes/ spikes and you have to paste uniforms together and you continue to ask for resources and nothing is done what would you do. If they are not going to help your program why stay around and continue to be Butt- F . I wouldn't and neither would you.
BUT...even when things are not right and are not going your way, you still have to act professional and be professional. She did neither, IMHO. And all of these personal attacks on Aggie Track & Field have come back to bite her in the end (in the form of bad karma). |
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Post by codeblu78 on Mar 19, 2019 10:02:12 GMT -5
Sure hope we’ll be talking to some of their field athletes
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 19, 2019 10:23:33 GMT -5
Sure hope we’ll be talking to some of their field athletes |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 11:31:51 GMT -5
Sure hope we’ll be talking to some of their field athletes And a distance runner or 2... |
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Post by saabman on Mar 19, 2019 11:45:36 GMT -5
Sure hope we’ll be talking to some of their field athletes Your are correct  But some conferences have transfer rules for in conference transfers . The SEC has a rule that they do not allow interconference transfers in Track and Field . TN used that rule on a sprinter a few years back , he was going to transfer to TXA&M and they blocked it . |
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 19, 2019 11:54:15 GMT -5
It's my understanding that track athletes can transfer at any point and not have to sit out a year. SAABMAN and others can correct me on this if I'm wrong, though. Your are correct But some conferences have transfer rules for in conference transfers . The SEC has a rule that they do not allow interconference transfers in Track and Field . TN used that rule on a sprinter a few years back , he was going to transfer to TXA&M and they blocked it .
And I did want to clarify to OSA and others that I am not saying that she is a bad track and field coach. I am definitely not qualified to make any assertation like that about her. But I based what I've said about her on my personal interactions with her and qualified facts that I've heard about her from qualified administrators. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 12:22:51 GMT -5
Overall, this is just a consequence of FAMU not operating their athletics department with a BUDGET!
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 19, 2019 12:42:26 GMT -5
Overall, this is just a consequence of FAMU not operating their athletics department with a BUDGET!
In a nutshell, this is the result of a rogue athletics director convincing the administration to jump into the FBS swimming pool back in the early-2000s with $6M in reserves and no plan...and then creating a financial hole so large that it depleted the reserve fund and amassed a debt larger than the reserve was. It's almost a never-ending sinkhole.
It's not about "not living within a budget." Right now, it's about "having a budget that you cannot function within."
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 19, 2019 13:01:17 GMT -5
given the year round climate in florida, i'd expect famu and bcu to always have strong track/field programs because they can pretty much practice outdoors year round. same can be said for the other spring sports (i.e., baseball, softball). whereas for us, we have certain practice limitations for indoor track/field due to winter weather...
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But some conferences have transfer rules for in conference transfers . The SEC has a rule that they do not allow interconference transfers in Track and Field . TN used that rule on a sprinter a few years back , he was going to transfer to TXA&M and they blocked it . 