FAMU vs UNC 2022 Wait FAMU You not Playing What???!!! Ugh
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Olde Hornet
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Great news FAMU!
Thanks SWAC office for supporting FAMU!
Thanks SWAC office for supporting FAMU!
MetroPhillyTiger
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I see UNC got 60 dropped on them.
Who made an excuse…all I said was we still got more guys out. Rattlers by 10
NastyD
Da 1 & Only
As do we and the rest of the Swac. Famu will be lucky to score 10 points. Hopefully y'all show back up to the board after we drag you
Olde Hornet
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FAMU needs leadership to right its boat!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/sports/ncaafootball/famu-football-scandal.html?
A new athletic director, Kortne Gosha, improved the department’s financial footing and boosted its profile, but his tenure ended in a tangle of investigations that only deepened the sense of dysfunction. It started when Gosha and one of his deputies, Michael Johnson, asked the university to look into what they said was an anonymous complaint about equipment theft.
Johnson also claimed he had been groped by a state legislator who was related to a track coach that Gosha and Johnson had been trying to fire. Gosha and Johnson said the legislator, Ramon Alexander, tried to interfere with the firing. Alexander denied that and told The Tallahassee Democrat that he and Johnson had a consensual relationship, which Johnson disputed. Alexander did not return calls from The New York Times.
The theft allegations boomeranged on Gosha and Johnson after investigators concluded that they made inconsistent statements and didn’t respond to record requests. A review of Johnson’s laptop found he had deleted files, something he had been warned not to do.
Johnson was fired in January. Gosha resigned in April, eight months short of the end of his three-year contract, after yet another investigation determined he could be fired for cause. Gosha, now an associate athletic director at Tulane, and Johnson, who worked briefly for the Detroit Lions, declined to speak on the record to The Times. They have filed whistle-blower complaints against Florida A&M, the precursor to a lawsuit. Johnson has also filed a discrimination complaint.
“They railroaded these guys because they reported things that the university didn’t want anybody to know about,” said Marie Mattox, an attorney representing the pair.
Soon, Florida A&M will have its eighth athletic director since 2010. The university interviewed six candidates to replace Gosha last week.
Robinson has pledged to hire five new compliance officials and two academic advisers for athletics by December — and also restored the ticket allotment to four per player.
“One of my fundamental challenges is to make sure that, first, we select the right people to begin with — people who have a commitment and an appreciation of the environment,” Robinson, when asked how he could create stability, said in an interview.
Among the more pressing matters is to raise the football team’s Academic Progress Rate — the N.C.A.A.’s academic report card — which is last this year among the 257 Division I schools that play football. Next year, penalties that had been paused early in the coronavirus pandemic will resume for schools whose scores fall below a minimum threshold, putting programs at risk of another postseason ban or new scholarship reductions.
For Florida A&M, Getting on the Field Is Just One of Many Problems
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/sports/ncaafootball/famu-football-scandal.html?
The athletic program has had a parade of problems and administrators.
Florida A&M has been on N.C.A.A. probation for nearly a decade, a result of two investigations involving eligibility issues. In 2019, the university forced out three high-ranking financial officers after an audit discovered up to $3 million had been improperly shifted to athletics to cover budget deficits.A new athletic director, Kortne Gosha, improved the department’s financial footing and boosted its profile, but his tenure ended in a tangle of investigations that only deepened the sense of dysfunction. It started when Gosha and one of his deputies, Michael Johnson, asked the university to look into what they said was an anonymous complaint about equipment theft.
Johnson also claimed he had been groped by a state legislator who was related to a track coach that Gosha and Johnson had been trying to fire. Gosha and Johnson said the legislator, Ramon Alexander, tried to interfere with the firing. Alexander denied that and told The Tallahassee Democrat that he and Johnson had a consensual relationship, which Johnson disputed. Alexander did not return calls from The New York Times.
The theft allegations boomeranged on Gosha and Johnson after investigators concluded that they made inconsistent statements and didn’t respond to record requests. A review of Johnson’s laptop found he had deleted files, something he had been warned not to do.
Johnson was fired in January. Gosha resigned in April, eight months short of the end of his three-year contract, after yet another investigation determined he could be fired for cause. Gosha, now an associate athletic director at Tulane, and Johnson, who worked briefly for the Detroit Lions, declined to speak on the record to The Times. They have filed whistle-blower complaints against Florida A&M, the precursor to a lawsuit. Johnson has also filed a discrimination complaint.
“They railroaded these guys because they reported things that the university didn’t want anybody to know about,” said Marie Mattox, an attorney representing the pair.
Soon, Florida A&M will have its eighth athletic director since 2010. The university interviewed six candidates to replace Gosha last week.
Robinson has pledged to hire five new compliance officials and two academic advisers for athletics by December — and also restored the ticket allotment to four per player.
“One of my fundamental challenges is to make sure that, first, we select the right people to begin with — people who have a commitment and an appreciation of the environment,” Robinson, when asked how he could create stability, said in an interview.
Among the more pressing matters is to raise the football team’s Academic Progress Rate — the N.C.A.A.’s academic report card — which is last this year among the 257 Division I schools that play football. Next year, penalties that had been paused early in the coronavirus pandemic will resume for schools whose scores fall below a minimum threshold, putting programs at risk of another postseason ban or new scholarship reductions.