A&T Basketball Aiming For Next Level Under Jones
Jun 24, 2020 12:11:07 GMT -5
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Ed Hardin: A&T introduces Will Jones as basketball coach as the university and athletics look forward together
By Ed Hardin ed.hardin@greensboro.com
Will Jones is introduced as A&T's new men's basketball coach.
Woody Marshall/News & Record
GREENSBORO — Will Jones stood before journalists this morning in an idyllic setting outside Corbett Sports Center. People lounged in chairs and stood under trees and listened as he was formally introduced as head basketball coach at N.C. A&T.
Jones thanked his family and friends and mentors along with school administrators such as athletics director Earl Hilton, who sat in the shade and smiled a lot, making the scene feel more like a graduation ceremony or real estate pitch than an introductory press conference.
That’s the new vibe at A&T, a school that believes it’s on the verge of a national introduction as not just any HBCU but the HBCU in America. And basketball is part of it.
The usual chants of “Aggie Pride!” were somewhat muted under the tall oaks and flowering crape myrtles. And there was a theme, one that is recurring at the growing university that now identifies its place in the city as “East Greensboro.”
“A&T is Greensboro,” Jones said. “And we will protect our brand, and we will protect our turf.”
He talked about basketball and recruiting and creating a culture, but this is a new day at A&T, and the university as a whole is moving toward becoming what Chancellor Harold Martin pledged last August, a “transformative” university in research and athletics.
Now it’s time for basketball to transform under Jones.
“This is our time,” Jones said. “There’s no better time than now for us to take our place at the table, the largest HBCU in the world, the most progressive HBCU in the world. We are the HBCU that can sit at that table and bring those top talented athletes to our campus and allow them to be successful.”
For the rest of the story:
www.greensboro.com/sports/columns/ed-hardin-a-t-introduces-will-jones-as-basketball-coach-as-the-university-and-athletics/article_51abe676-9926-5500-9d31-162d1f5b490c.html
By Ed Hardin ed.hardin@greensboro.com
Will Jones is introduced as A&T's new men's basketball coach.
Woody Marshall/News & Record
GREENSBORO — Will Jones stood before journalists this morning in an idyllic setting outside Corbett Sports Center. People lounged in chairs and stood under trees and listened as he was formally introduced as head basketball coach at N.C. A&T.
Jones thanked his family and friends and mentors along with school administrators such as athletics director Earl Hilton, who sat in the shade and smiled a lot, making the scene feel more like a graduation ceremony or real estate pitch than an introductory press conference.
That’s the new vibe at A&T, a school that believes it’s on the verge of a national introduction as not just any HBCU but the HBCU in America. And basketball is part of it.
The usual chants of “Aggie Pride!” were somewhat muted under the tall oaks and flowering crape myrtles. And there was a theme, one that is recurring at the growing university that now identifies its place in the city as “East Greensboro.”
“A&T is Greensboro,” Jones said. “And we will protect our brand, and we will protect our turf.”
He talked about basketball and recruiting and creating a culture, but this is a new day at A&T, and the university as a whole is moving toward becoming what Chancellor Harold Martin pledged last August, a “transformative” university in research and athletics.
Now it’s time for basketball to transform under Jones.
“This is our time,” Jones said. “There’s no better time than now for us to take our place at the table, the largest HBCU in the world, the most progressive HBCU in the world. We are the HBCU that can sit at that table and bring those top talented athletes to our campus and allow them to be successful.”
For the rest of the story:
www.greensboro.com/sports/columns/ed-hardin-a-t-introduces-will-jones-as-basketball-coach-as-the-university-and-athletics/article_51abe676-9926-5500-9d31-162d1f5b490c.html