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Post by Bornthrilla on Apr 9, 2008 8:30:29 GMT -5
Don't know for how much, but the Rattlers are trying to steal Bibbs from us.
We can't let this happen.
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Post by Bigboy on Apr 9, 2008 11:57:11 GMT -5
Coach if you are reading this remember James Brown!!! Please, please, please, please, please, Bibbs please don't go. Bibbs please don't goooo, we love you so.
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Post by DECKS on Apr 9, 2008 13:15:22 GMT -5
Unless FAMU has offered her something totally ridiculous we need to step up to the plate! I was just about to send in my Victory Club dues but I may wait to see how we handle this.
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Post by hawkeye on Apr 9, 2008 18:12:33 GMT -5
We gotta do whatever it takes to keep Bibbs. Lock her down for 10 yrs plus.
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Post by Aggie One on Apr 9, 2008 18:26:48 GMT -5
FAMU has consistently operated in a deficit with its athletic department for the last decade.
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Post by aggiejazz on Apr 10, 2008 12:48:54 GMT -5
I don't know Aggie One, FAMU has new leadship.
FAMU's Ammons fielding a winning team
Posted 4/8/2008 11:11 AM EDT on tallahassee.com
You just can’t help but be impressed with James Ammons and his team at Florida A&M University.
In nine months, the Ammons team has turned around both the direction and the results at what was unmistakably a troubled institution.
Enrollment was, not surprisingly, falling. That is now mostly in the past. To use a sports analogy, FAMU has its swagger back as one of the top Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the nation. You could pick up on that – and his pride in the people who made it happen for FAMU – during a visit by Ammons to the Tallahassee Democrat’s editorial board Monday.
FAMU had a relatively clean audit in December, its first in three years. Although relatively minor deficiencies were noted, the state auditor’s office can take down its permanent parking-place sign right next to the one that says “Reserved for the president” outside of Lee Hall.
The probation has been lifted from the pharmacy program's accreditation, and there is strong hope that SACS will do the same for the university’s accreditation in June.
Ammons is proud of the faculty at FAMU and this week thanked them for sticking with the university through the toughest of times. “They not only stayed put at FAMU, they stayed focused when they could have cut and run,” he said.
And as much as it has been a team effort, Ammons has personally done a LOT of the heavy lifting. The man has done more recruiting of students than any athletic program, traveling all over the state and country to bring the good news of FAMU’s story to “the best and brightest” students in the country, as he puts it.
These are students who could go to Harvard or Yale or anywhere else in the country, and Ammons is winning them – at least some of them – for FAMU.
More than that, FAMU under Ammons is bent on taking its rightful place as a leader in the community at large, getting involved in our community’s tragically high rates of black infant mortality and other health-care issues, the Chamber, technology transfer, slowing crime and gang-related violence and much more.
“One of my goals I have is to be a vital part of the community and for us to be treated as we are vital,” he said.
In this striving for excellence, athletics is not exempt from his concerns. If you talk with him about the athletics department, you can see his competitiveness.
It is important that student-athletes focus on graduating, the same as everyone else, Ammons said.
“But on the performance side, the only way I know how to judge performance is by winning,” he said.
He was talking about sports, but I had the feeling it was a good summary of his overall philosophy.
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Post by Aggie One on Apr 10, 2008 16:29:54 GMT -5
Yeah and Ammons left NCCU's athletic program in a hole financially as well. You give him way too much credit.
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Post by truthseeker on Apr 12, 2008 9:02:57 GMT -5
i really don't see famu being that committed to womens sports... time will tell to see how they progress the 2 sports that are pretty good... they want instant success but are they truley committed...  thats a question bibbs will have to figure out... i mean what was wrong with clark... her team started the yr. 9-0 or 9-1... then internal termoil hit & they slumped... but yet they battled us tooth & nail... so her program was not in bad shape... she just had to get rid of some knucleheads wich set the team back... |
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Post by truthseeker on Apr 12, 2008 9:16:47 GMT -5
i'd really hate to see bibbs go because i think her & a&t is a perfect fit... i think we have the coaches in place in all the sports but 1 to do big things here... it's just going to take someone with alot of courage to go out on the limb & direct additional money away from football & towards sports that can compete for a meac title...
football at this point just needs to be worked on slowly... with no extra money poured in it to be wasted...
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Post by aggierattler on May 1, 2008 9:27:04 GMT -5
I know this to be a FACT, guys. Pat Bibbs is safe and not coming to FAMU. The ink has already dried on this one. Should be official on Monday, May 5th.
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Post by Bornthrilla on May 1, 2008 10:27:08 GMT -5
Actually FAMU dropped out the Bibbs Sweapstakes two weeks ago. It came down to Grambling and A&T, and ultimately Bibbs chose to stay here. This was announced at the board of trustees meeting last Thursday.
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Post by Maxell on May 1, 2008 11:55:15 GMT -5
Does anybody know how many years?
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