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Alcorn State Still Hasn’t Found A Full-Time Trainer For ESPN3 Game Against South Alabama On Saturday | Don’t Blow The Bag
By theshadowleague.com | 2h
HBCU Alcorn State is supposed to play South Alabama State on ESPN3 on Saturday at 7 pm, live from Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
According to sources affiliated with the school, Alcorn will make $360,000 just for showing up to what is expected to be a beatdown.
But they might not be able to get the paycheck because Alcorn, as of this time on Thursday, still didn’t have an athletic trainer and the university is using the excuse that it’s a “resource issue.”
Blowing The Bag
Alcorn State does not have any full-time athletics trainers. The program has used part-time trainers this season. This would be the third game of the season and rumor has it there’s potential player-revolt developing.
Alcorn head coach Fred McNair, brother of the late great Alcorn State and NFL quarterback Steve, pretty much said that the kids haven’t been able to hold a full practice all week and they are frustrated. McNair made it clear that this was a university issue that was above his head.
He threw Alcorn State President
M. Christopher Brown II under the bus and let it be known on his weekly radio show that he wants a solution from the administration ASAP.
Penny Pinching Or Incompetance?
Certified athletic trainers are required to be on-site at games and at practice per NCAA rules in the event of injury or treatment needed for student-athletes.
What makes this situation even worse is that Alcorn State is expected to haul in a $360,000 pay day if they play the game.
Refusing to spend the money needed to have a full-time trainer because of frugality — which in turn blows a six-figure pay day — is what we call hustling backward.
Some student-athletes call it sabotage and nobody in the school’s front office is willing to speak about the situation publicly.
According to sources affiliated with the SWAC conference, players were threatening to stage a boycott because they recognize that they don’t have adequate staff to cover them in case of injury.
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