Jones is finally fired and it's long overdue.
- She pocketed money
- tried to cover up a domestic violence on the team
- started and spreaded rumors about her own staff and athletes
- would lie to some athletes about how much scholarship money she had to give just so she can give it to her favorites
- forged one of the assistant coaches signature during an event he didn't attend and pocketed his per diem
- Kept the gifts that SWAC gives to all athletes during championship because didn't like how they performed
- Constantly overtrained athletes to the point that they'll get injured and took their scholarship if they didn't recover when she wanted them to
- Would intentionally renew scholarships once the school year started back so it would be difficult for someone to transfer. Nobody knew what their scholarship looked like until they moved back in. The deadline for that is supposed to be July 1st
- Stashed her gun on a charter bus even though the company didn't allow firearms on their bus.
Them ASU athletes were glad she left because they weren't overtraining anymore and they got better. They did not want her back. Some only missed her cause she always gave snacks.
She rarely recruited and when she did she only looked at Florida. Some of the Florida sprinters hit her up wanting a scholarship and she just gave them one whether they were good or not.
She could not coach. The headlines are misleading because before last year she was the one who would write the articles. That's why majority of them focus on her group (sprinters) even if athletes in other events did good. The 2017-2018 year there was a thrower who broke the school records in hammer throw, weight throw, and discus throw, AND won all 3 of those events and won outdoor field MVP. He was also coached by a 1st year grad student. To my knowledge he's the first male thrower to win since AAMU joined SWAC, but because she wrote the article she mentioned none of that and just glossed over what he did to write about the sprinters.
She was only over sprinters. The other athletes were coached by an assistant or volunteer or they coached themselves like the pole vaulter. Headlines mislead but stats don't. Look at how hurdles and field events performed and got better since she got there versus the sprinters.
If the team did any good it was because of the assistants and volunteer coaches. That year 4 athletes qualified for regionals, three of them were coached by the assistant. The sprinter that made it don't count for real because he went to regionals when Seals was still the coach.
The past 3 seasons (17-18, 18-19, 19-20) she's went through 6 coaches ( 3 assistants and 4 volunteers). They either quit or she made up reasons to let them go. Nobody wants to work with her and it's getting to the point where some HS coaches don't want to send their athletes to her, least the Florida coaches anyway. If someone knows about her and still wants to work with then they act just like she does which helps nobody.
The fact that Hicks allowed all of that to happen for this long is beyond me. Not sure what made them decide to investigate her now all of a sudden but it's about time.
