Alcorn State's Horne Top Candidate for ULM AD


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http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sp...ne-leading-candidate-ulm-ad-search/433111001/

Alcorn State athletic director Derek Horne is the leading candidate for the same position at ULM.

ULM has scheduled a Wednesday interview with Horne, who arrived in Monroe on Tuesday.

ULM President Nick Bruno, special assistant to the president Ron Hogan and former ULM and Southern Miss athletic director Richard Giannini are running the search along with an appointed search committee.

Alcorn has won two SWAC football championships, three football division titles and a tennis championship. The school also had 10 student-athletes earn first-team All-SWAC recognition since Horne was hired in 2014.

Men’s basketball coach Montez Robinson, a Horne hire, has guided the Braves from a six-win team to 33 wins in two seasons.
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Good look for Horne & Alcorn, wish him success
 
The SWAC might have 3 Huntsville natives in AD positions this upcoming year.

Melvin Hines - ASU
Jason Cable - possibility at Alcorn
Bryan Hicks - AAMU (if he doesn't finally find work elsewhere)
 

The Founder said:
ULM should return to the Southland Conference.
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ULM hates the idea.

The thing is their budget right now would be #4 or #5 in the Southland with at least one or two schools on their heels, based off of USA Today. Their head coach salaries are all comparable (if not lower) to Southland coaching salaries. They haven't been successful across the board since they left the Southland. Their facilities are Southland-like too.

It's truly a shame... but they hang their hat on hosting the occasional Big 12 team and that one big win over 'Bama.
 
TexasTerror said:
ULM hates the idea.

The thing is their budget right now would be #4 or #5 in the Southland with at least one or two schools on their heels, based off of USA Today. Their head coach salaries are all comparable (if not lower) to Southland coaching salaries. They haven't been successful across the board since they left the Southland. Their facilities are Southland-like too.

It's truly a shame... but they hang their hat on hosting the occasional Big 12 team and that one big win over 'Bama.
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Hmm, barely hanging on to FBS status. Has any SWAC ADs made the jump to FBS AD before?
Considering the budget, Horne should be able to handle this
 
The big difference is that Alcorn had potential. It don't matter who ULM hire if they don't set them up for excellence they will fail. Alcorn got steals out of Hopson, Horn, and our Basketball Coach. ULM has been in FBS since 1994 and had 1 winning season, 3 (6-6)seasons, and 19 losing seasons. The majority of their sports have an overall losing record in the conference. The thing that hurts ULM is the fact that they don't have the support system or the infrastructure of a FBS team. Their enrollment is less than Texas Southern and Jackson St. and their Athletic Budget is less than Alabama St. It was talk of ULM moving back to the Southland Conference
 
ULM is a hard job in a state that bows down to LSU. The locals don't support it, they are third-tier in North Louisiana but blacks think it's still better than their own school while whites are there strictly as a fallback as they're supporting LSU away from campus. Your in a conference that makes little to no geographic sense.
 
ghostwriter said:
ULM is a hard job in a state that bows down to LSU. The locals don't support it, they are third-tier in North Louisiana but blacks think it's still better than their own school while whites are there strictly as a fallback as they're supporting LSU away from campus. Your in a conference that makes little to no geographic sense.
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what does all of this trashing of ULM have to do with the discussion? I don't feel it's relevant
 
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