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Crosby resigns as athletic director for Stillman College
By David Wasson
Executive Sports Editor
TUSCALOOSA | Richard Cosby, who returned for his third stint as Stillman College athletic director in August 2003, has resigned. Stillman College director of public relations Cresandra Smothers said Monday that Cosby resigned late last week, and that the school was soliciting candidates for his replacement.
?He resigned last week, likely it was Thursday, and did so for personal reasons,? Smothers said. ?The position has been sent to other outlets to be publicized. Most likely, a search committee will be appointed, but there is not a committee yet."
Calls to Cosby?s office Monday were not returned, and requests to speak to him were forwarded to the school?s public relations department.
Stillman College president Ernest McNealey did not return messages left for him at his office.
Stillman had a job posting for an athletic director, a staff position with the school, posted on its Web site Monday afternoon.
Cosby also held the athletic director?s position at Stillman from 1973-1991 and from July 2000-January 2003.
Cosby returned to Stillman in the summer of 2003 after a seven-month stint as athletics director at NCAA Division I-AA Alabama State University in Montgomery.
After accepting the ASU job, Cosby had to face a recent investigation into what he said was an ?almost totally out of control? football program that used ineligible players, changed athletes? grades and entertained recruits with strippers.
Cosby brings more than 30 years of experience in athletics and administration at various institutions of higher education, including Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., and Clark Atlanta University.
During his 2000-2003 stay at Stillman, Cosby used his considerable knowledge of NCAA regulations to help the NCAA Division III Tigers make the move to the current provisional Division II status, as well as developing the Inaugural Druid City Classic.
To meet the requirements for Division II status, Stillman needs to field scholarship teams in at least 10 sports, a requirement the school is already meeting. Stillman competes in football, baseball, softball and volleyball, and fields men?s and women?s teams in basketball, track and field, cross country and tennis.
The school has to provide more than 100 athletic scholarships to fully fund each sport, although it can satisfy NCAA requirements by funding two-thirds of the full scholarship load for each sport. In August, Cosby said the school was well on its way to meeting that standard.
?We?re not at the maximum in any of those,? Cosby said at the time. ?We haven?t gotten there yet. We?re fairly close, I?d say.?
In May, Stillman hired former University of Alabama All-American Leon Douglas to coach men?s basketball.
Douglas currently has five scholarships, half the number allowed in Division II, spread among 15 players.
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By David Wasson
Executive Sports Editor
TUSCALOOSA | Richard Cosby, who returned for his third stint as Stillman College athletic director in August 2003, has resigned. Stillman College director of public relations Cresandra Smothers said Monday that Cosby resigned late last week, and that the school was soliciting candidates for his replacement.
?He resigned last week, likely it was Thursday, and did so for personal reasons,? Smothers said. ?The position has been sent to other outlets to be publicized. Most likely, a search committee will be appointed, but there is not a committee yet."
Calls to Cosby?s office Monday were not returned, and requests to speak to him were forwarded to the school?s public relations department.
Stillman College president Ernest McNealey did not return messages left for him at his office.
Stillman had a job posting for an athletic director, a staff position with the school, posted on its Web site Monday afternoon.
Cosby also held the athletic director?s position at Stillman from 1973-1991 and from July 2000-January 2003.
Cosby returned to Stillman in the summer of 2003 after a seven-month stint as athletics director at NCAA Division I-AA Alabama State University in Montgomery.
After accepting the ASU job, Cosby had to face a recent investigation into what he said was an ?almost totally out of control? football program that used ineligible players, changed athletes? grades and entertained recruits with strippers.
Cosby brings more than 30 years of experience in athletics and administration at various institutions of higher education, including Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., and Clark Atlanta University.
During his 2000-2003 stay at Stillman, Cosby used his considerable knowledge of NCAA regulations to help the NCAA Division III Tigers make the move to the current provisional Division II status, as well as developing the Inaugural Druid City Classic.
To meet the requirements for Division II status, Stillman needs to field scholarship teams in at least 10 sports, a requirement the school is already meeting. Stillman competes in football, baseball, softball and volleyball, and fields men?s and women?s teams in basketball, track and field, cross country and tennis.
The school has to provide more than 100 athletic scholarships to fully fund each sport, although it can satisfy NCAA requirements by funding two-thirds of the full scholarship load for each sport. In August, Cosby said the school was well on its way to meeting that standard.
?We?re not at the maximum in any of those,? Cosby said at the time. ?We haven?t gotten there yet. We?re fairly close, I?d say.?
In May, Stillman hired former University of Alabama All-American Leon Douglas to coach men?s basketball.
Douglas currently has five scholarships, half the number allowed in Division II, spread among 15 players.
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