Schoolfield was fired today

[Brandmasta]

dj98 said:

One more thing, Who did he get into it with. I hope it was not TODD, He's crazy if it was.

Who knows, but apparently he got into it with the wrong person at the wrong time of the day.

I wish him the best.

[da heretic]

Quote:

"This is the second time he was fired over the same thing."...

and, yet, small still hired him. Add this onto the long list of bad decisions by small since he's been head coach. (SMH)

[exterminator]

N.C. A&T dismisses offensive coordinator
By Rob Daniels
Staff Writer GREENSBORO -- N.C. A&T has fired Kent Schoolfield after only five games as offensive coordinator for unspecified reasons and replaced him with offensive line coach Chennis Berry.

Associate athletics director Wheeler Brown confirmed Schoolfield was dismissed Wednesday, but he declined to elaborate, citing university and state policies concerning personnel issues.

Attempts to reach the 59-year-old coach were unsuccessful. He neither owns property in Guilford County nor has local, land-based phone service.

Schoolfield, an accomplished head coach at Division II Fort Valley (Ga.) State who hired Berry in 2001, inherited a struggling Aggie offense and did not achieve appreciably different results in the first five games of 2005. The Aggies (1-1 MEAC, 2-3) stand 98th or lower out of the NCAA's 117 Division I-AA teams in three of the four major statistical categories for team offense.

Asked if he had philosophical differences with Schoolfield, coach George Small said, "No, not really. Just wanted to go in a different direction, hopefully."

Small said he wasn't aware of anything unrelated to football that could have contributed to Schoolfield's departure. Aggie players said they were told of the move Wednesday.

"A couple of people asked why," senior wide receiver Brandon Trusty said. "For me, it took a minute to sink in. If there was an answer, I was tuning it out because I didn't want to deal with it. Coach Schoolfield and I had bonded. It was a blow to me. But coach Small sat down and talked with me about it."

Schoolfield, a Florida A&M graduate, was a member of Bobby Bowden's first staff at Florida State in 1976. In July, he was a finalist for A&M's suddenly vacant head coaching job in July, only a few months after he arrived at A&T from Division III Capital University in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

He served as a part-time assistant at Capital after leaving Fort Valley State, which he led to three NCAA Division II tournaments in six seasons.

One of his assistants at Fort Valley State was Berry, a 1996 Savannah State graduate who first worked for Small at Kentucky State in 1997 and who has been at A&T for all of Small's three-year tenure.

"It wasn't my decision, of course," Berry said of Schoolfield's dismissal. "But I owe it to the football program, coach Small, the team as a whole and these seniors to continue to keep this thing going.

"Coach Schoolfield is a great person who has been very instrumental in my life. He has been a mentor, a father figure, an uncle figure and a friend."

The A&T running game has been hindered by injuries to two of its top three backs, and the passing element has not fared well. The Aggies attempted only eight passes in this past Saturday's 16-3 win over Tennessee State.

Berry said he doesn't anticipate radical changes in approach as A&T prepares for Saturday's game against Morgan State in Landover, Md.

"Coach Small will let me do what I think is best to move the football and score points," he said. "By any means necessary. We'll definitely have a balance of run and pass. Nothing different. The same stuff we've been doing. It comes down to execution."

[Bornthrilla]

Mr. Daniel, I'd appreciate if you mention this message board as an orginial source to your scoops in the future. You know good and well that the first time you found out about Schoolfield's firing was here.

[Aggie One]

Local reporters read us like the holy grail.

[AggieMike]

well hey we went 10-1 in HS (our only loss was to Independence of course) but our coach took plays from Madden and NCAA so pick your poison...lol...that was the rumor