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Broadway fires 2 NCCU coaches
By MIKE POTTER, The Herald-Sun
November 25, 2003 11:45 pm
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Both of N.C. Central's coordinators have been fired in a purge of the football staff after Rod Broadway's first season, one that started with a hot first month and ended with a scramble to get out of the CIAA cellar.
Gone as of Dec. 24 will be offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Linwood Ferguson and defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Damon Frenchers.
http://www.nccu.edu/campus/athletics/fb031103.html
"It's the nature of the business, I guess," Frenchers said. "I didn't see it coming, but it happened."
Broadway, who went 4-6 in his first season as a head coach after 24 seasons as an assistant at the Division I-A level, acknowledged the moves Tuesday afternoon.
He said he actually had informed Ferguson and Frenchers of the decisions Nov. 14.
"We've decided to go in a different direction," Broadway said. "It's nothing personal. It was just something that had to be done. I hate it, because Frenchers has been a friend of mine for a long time. But this is business."
The Eagles began their season with a loss to N.C. A&T, which won the MEAC championship and qualified for the Division I-AA playoffs, before three straight close upsets over Morehouse, Delaware State and Virginia State.
But the Eagles found themselves on the other end of the upset bug against both Elizabeth City State and St. Augustine's, starting a five-game losing streak that didn't end until a season-opening rout of hapless Johnson C. Smith.
NCCU finished eighth in the CIAA in both total offense and total defense, eighth in scoring offense and ninth in scoring defense.
"We had 39 turnovers on offense and four on special teams, and that's too many," Broadway said. "Defensively, we just need to get better all over. We need to find some good linebackers real bad."
Ferguson was offensive coordinator at A&T in 2002, the Aggies' final season under head coach Bill Hayes who now is the athletics director at NCCU.
The East Carolina graduate has 29 seasons of coaching experience, serving as defensive coordinator at Elon when it won back-to-back NAIA national championships in 1980 and 1981.
Frenchers, a graduate of the University of Missouri who has coached at his alma mater as well as three schools in the MEAC, also was at NCCU as an assistant under Larry Little for seven seasons in the 1990s.
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By MIKE POTTER, The Herald-Sun
November 25, 2003 11:45 pm
http://www.herald-sun.com/sports/nccentral
Both of N.C. Central's coordinators have been fired in a purge of the football staff after Rod Broadway's first season, one that started with a hot first month and ended with a scramble to get out of the CIAA cellar.
Gone as of Dec. 24 will be offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Linwood Ferguson and defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Damon Frenchers.
http://www.nccu.edu/campus/athletics/fb031103.html
"It's the nature of the business, I guess," Frenchers said. "I didn't see it coming, but it happened."
Broadway, who went 4-6 in his first season as a head coach after 24 seasons as an assistant at the Division I-A level, acknowledged the moves Tuesday afternoon.
He said he actually had informed Ferguson and Frenchers of the decisions Nov. 14.
"We've decided to go in a different direction," Broadway said. "It's nothing personal. It was just something that had to be done. I hate it, because Frenchers has been a friend of mine for a long time. But this is business."
The Eagles began their season with a loss to N.C. A&T, which won the MEAC championship and qualified for the Division I-AA playoffs, before three straight close upsets over Morehouse, Delaware State and Virginia State.
But the Eagles found themselves on the other end of the upset bug against both Elizabeth City State and St. Augustine's, starting a five-game losing streak that didn't end until a season-opening rout of hapless Johnson C. Smith.
NCCU finished eighth in the CIAA in both total offense and total defense, eighth in scoring offense and ninth in scoring defense.
"We had 39 turnovers on offense and four on special teams, and that's too many," Broadway said. "Defensively, we just need to get better all over. We need to find some good linebackers real bad."
Ferguson was offensive coordinator at A&T in 2002, the Aggies' final season under head coach Bill Hayes who now is the athletics director at NCCU.
The East Carolina graduate has 29 seasons of coaching experience, serving as defensive coordinator at Elon when it won back-to-back NAIA national championships in 1980 and 1981.
Frenchers, a graduate of the University of Missouri who has coached at his alma mater as well as three schools in the MEAC, also was at NCCU as an assistant under Larry Little for seven seasons in the 1990s.
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