Hampton coach has been made the head coach, as they dropped the interim label about half way through the season. The grants and other money that North Carolina A&T State University is getting is for academics and not for athletics (while the AD did say they are going to scale back the campaign for additional funds and instead of trying to raise 100 million all at one., they are going to start off with around a 20 million campaign). While I don't think it is a money problem with A&T doing well in the CAA in football, as the other sports are doing better almost across the board. I think it just a bad coaching hire, as too much was made about having CAA experience rather getting someone that could build on what A&T already had. As far as A&T move to the Big South then to CAA it was driven in part due to money. During the most recent town hall meeting, the AD mention how much they was getting from the MEAC and what they are not getting in the CAA (which includes having the ability to do local media rights deals). I think the problem with the MEAC is that they need to improve how they do business, as you can't expect schools to stay in your conference just based on being a HBCU. The fact that MEAC tried to add Chicago State to the conference, without providing additional revenue to the school to counter act the increase in travel and the splitting of conference payout was not logical.
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Hampton coach has been made the head coach, as they dropped the interim label about half way through the season. The grants and other money that North Carolina A&T State University is getting is for academics and not for athletics (while the AD did say they are going to scale back the campaign for additional funds and instead of trying to raise 100 million all at one., they are going to start off with around a 20 million campaign).
While I don't think it is a money problem with A&T doing well in the CAA in football, as the other sports are doing better almost across the board. I think it just a bad coaching hire, as too much was made about having CAA experience rather getting someone that could build on what A&T already had. As far as A&T move to the Big South then to CAA it was driven in part due to money.
During the most recent town hall meeting, the AD mention how much they was getting from the MEAC and what they are not getting in the CAA (which includes having the ability to do local media rights deals). I think the problem with the MEAC is that they need to improve how they do business, as you can't expect schools to stay in your conference just based on being a HBCU. The fact that MEAC tried to add Chicago State to the conference, without providing additional revenue to the school to counter act the increase in travel and the splitting of conference payout was not logical.