bluehaze
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Post by bluehaze on Sept 18, 2023 14:22:48 GMT -5
He has a lot of former players that are with him on this .. the ship has sailed and but the fact we are getting ready to go 0-11 means there is going to be a lot of heated discussions. I got yelled at for saying our football program was blown up under the transition- turns out it was obliterated. I also stated that when HBCUS we’re getting hot we exited left. And that indeed did happen. People need to listen to what he’s saying because he comes from a different generation. This generation is anti white validation & is serious about it. The recruiting I see validated this. Black people that want the black experience are going to schools where the culture is there. Even Ray Lewis expressed interest in SC State - whether it’s good for them or not - whether celebrity coaches are good or not- nobody stood up and said they wanted to come to A&T. And I believe that’s a trend and it has me terrified. We did not need to move to white conferences to achieve R1 status .. Morgan state and Howard are on our heels and might make it b4 us and they will do it in a black conference. My hope is that Dr. Martin genius of concentrating on black kids that attend PWIs to make us the largest in the world with a 3.9 gpa to boot will translate into black athletes that would not ordinarily attend an HBCU. This is our only hope because we are certainly trending the opposite way and a 0-11 season is not going to help this. We haven't played football in the MEAC since 2019. Why are applications and enrollment going up every year?
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Post by bluehaze on Sept 18, 2023 14:28:37 GMT -5
Coach Brown just retweeted this. This is his selling point to recruits.
I’m sorry to inform the former football players, but this is why we are growing. Jobs and scholarships.
I love the football team and athletics clearly help the status of the university and the social atmosphere. But don’t get it twisted, this is the mission of the university. So, get mad at Martin all you want, I'm riding this wave.
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Post by AggieMac on Sept 18, 2023 14:38:17 GMT -5
Save that same post for 5 years from now..... You do the same...
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Post by aggie2039 on Sept 18, 2023 14:38:29 GMT -5
What makes his comments even worse is the fact that he attended Coastal Carolina out of high school, he came to us because he got in trouble.
HBCUs were not his first choice, a last and only option once he got in trouble.
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Post by AggieMac on Sept 18, 2023 14:44:22 GMT -5
What makes his comments even worse is the fact that he attended Coastal Carolina out of high school, he came to us because he got in trouble. HBCUs were not his first choice, a last and only option once he got in trouble. Ah man you bit. We were not trying to say anything as we know it was a contradiction lol
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Post by JeffAggieFan on Sept 18, 2023 14:54:28 GMT -5
Campbell almost did the same thing we did. They were in the Pioneer League in 2017 Move to the Big South from 2018-2022 and they are now in CAA for 2023.
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Post by aggieswag on Sept 18, 2023 15:00:24 GMT -5
He has a lot of former players that are with him on this .. the ship has sailed and but the fact we are getting ready to go 0-11 means there is going to be a lot of heated discussions. I got yelled at for saying our football program was blown up under the transition- turns out it was obliterated. I also stated that when HBCUS we’re getting hot we exited left. And that indeed did happen. People need to listen to what he’s saying because he comes from a different generation. This generation is anti white validation & is serious about it. The recruiting I see validated this. Black people that want the black experience are going to schools where the culture is there. Even Ray Lewis expressed interest in SC State - whether it’s good for them or not - whether celebrity coaches are good or not- nobody stood up and said they wanted to come to A&T. And I believe that’s a trend and it has me terrified. We did not need to move to white conferences to achieve R1 status .. Morgan state and Howard are on our heels and might make it b4 us and they will do it in a black conference. My hope is that Dr. Martin genius of concentrating on black kids that attend PWIs to make us the largest in the world with a 3.9 gpa to boot will translate into black athletes that would not ordinarily attend an HBCU. This is our only hope because we are certainly trending the opposite way and a 0-11 season is not going to help this. We haven't played football in the MEAC since 2019. Why are applications and enrollment going up every year? I acknowledged in my post the genius of marketing to black kids that attend white schools which led us to being the largest and greatest- I followed up by saying that our only hope is that the same thing happens in athletics- which are two very separate things.. just to clear up any confusion
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Post by bseballaggie on Sept 18, 2023 15:10:53 GMT -5
I'm all in for growth, but I am not a fan of water-downed black people. To be clear, I'm for the culture!
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Post by aggie2039 on Sept 18, 2023 15:11:42 GMT -5
We haven't played football in the MEAC since 2019. Why are applications and enrollment going up every year? I acknowledged in my post the genius of marketing to black kids that attend white schools which led us to being the largest and greatest- I followed up by saying that our only hope is that the same thing happens in athletics- which are two very separate things.. just to clear up any confusion I agree, based on what we are seeing in early recruiting it seems as if it will work. Avg GPA of the current recruits is like a 3.5.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 18, 2023 15:13:08 GMT -5
Coach Brown just retweeted this. This is his selling point to recruits. I’m sorry to inform the former football players, but this is why we are growing. Jobs and scholarships. I love the football team and athletics clearly help the status of the university and the social atmosphere. But don’t get it twisted, this is the mission of the university. So, get mad at Martin all you want, I'm riding this wave. news flash! talented high school recruits "don't care" about how "innovative" a college is, i don't know of "any" recruits that decided to pick a football program because the college is "innovative". so that's coach brown's selling point? like i've said from the beginning, a team full of "choir boys" ain't gone win too many football games...
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Post by aggieclt on Sept 18, 2023 15:16:15 GMT -5
Coach Brown just retweeted this. This is his selling point to recruits. I’m sorry to inform the former football players, but this is why we are growing. Jobs and scholarships. I love the football team and athletics clearly help the status of the university and the social atmosphere. But don’t get it twisted, this is the mission of the university. So, get mad at Martin all you want, I'm riding this wave. news flash! talented high school recruits "don't care" about how "innovative" a college is, i don't know of "any" recruits that decided to pick a football program because the college is "innovative". so that's coach brown's selling point? like i've said from the beginning, a team full of "choir boys" ain't gone win too many football games... Wow, this is...nevermind.
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Post by aggie2039 on Sept 18, 2023 15:27:22 GMT -5
Coach Brown just retweeted this. This is his selling point to recruits. I’m sorry to inform the former football players, but this is why we are growing. Jobs and scholarships. I love the football team and athletics clearly help the status of the university and the social atmosphere. But don’t get it twisted, this is the mission of the university. So, get mad at Martin all you want, I'm riding this wave. news flash! talented high school recruits "don't care" about how "innovative" a college is, i don't know of "any" recruits that decided to pick a football program because the college is "innovative". so that's coach brown's selling point? like i've said from the beginning, a team full of "choir boys" ain't gone win too many football games... It does at W&M
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Post by aggie2039 on Sept 18, 2023 15:28:40 GMT -5
news flash! talented high school recruits "don't care" about how "innovative" a college is, i don't know of "any" recruits that decided to pick a football program because the college is "innovative". so that's coach brown's selling point? like i've said from the beginning, a team full of "choir boys" ain't gone win too many football games... Wow, this is...nevermind. I agree with your non-verbal response...lol My LB son has a 3.4 GPA class of 2026 and NC State is already looking at him.
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Post by bluehaze on Sept 18, 2023 15:33:36 GMT -5
I'm all in for growth, but I am not a fan of water-downed black people. To be clear, I'm for the culture! What does water-downed black people mean?
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Post by bluehaze on Sept 18, 2023 15:35:35 GMT -5
Coach Brown just retweeted this. This is his selling point to recruits. I’m sorry to inform the former football players, but this is why we are growing. Jobs and scholarships. I love the football team and athletics clearly help the status of the university and the social atmosphere. But don’t get it twisted, this is the mission of the university. So, get mad at Martin all you want, I'm riding this wave. news flash! talented high school recruits "don't care" about how "innovative" a college is, i don't know of "any" recruits that decided to pick a football program because the college is "innovative". so that's coach brown's selling point? like i've said from the beginning, a team full of "choir boys" ain't gone win too many football games... Brandon Parker came here to be a Mechanical Engineer... Of course you need "SOME" straight up players. But we don't need a team full of academic question marks as well...
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