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GSU wants new AD to lift program
Nick Deriso
nderiso@thenewsstar.com
July 5, 2004
GRAMBLING - Grambling State's next athletics director will have to be savvy about marketing, committed to all sports and an aggressive decision-maker, according to supporters and alumni.
GSU president Horace Judson asked fourth-year AD Albert Dennis III to step down on Thursday. Some were surprised that it came on Judson's first official day at work.
"I was a little surprised, but shocked? Not at all," said Donavan Simmons, a 1997 graduate of GSU.
Simmons said quick action was needed, considering "all the transition and uncertainty taking place within the athletics department recently." He listed as lingering concerns a still-unresolved Chicago date against Mississippi Valley and a defensive coordinator position that has been open for months, among other things.
Ralph Wilson, president of Grambling State's Quarterback Club, said promoting the program is essential.
"It's my hope that the replacement is someone who will be upwardly mobile and someone who can realistically move the athletic department forward," Wilson said. "He or she, I would hope, would be extremely personable and sensitive to the needs of students who choose to be athletes at this institution, be task oriented - as well as have a commitment to raising external funds for the continuity and success of our various athletic programs."
Too, any candidate should have an all-encompassing regard for athletics.
"The new athletics director has to be a person who is going to support whatever sports the school decides to move into - while growing the football program," said Collie Nicholson, a living legend who served as sports information director during the glory years of Eddie Robinson's tenure as head football coach.
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Nick Deriso
nderiso@thenewsstar.com
July 5, 2004
GRAMBLING - Grambling State's next athletics director will have to be savvy about marketing, committed to all sports and an aggressive decision-maker, according to supporters and alumni.
GSU president Horace Judson asked fourth-year AD Albert Dennis III to step down on Thursday. Some were surprised that it came on Judson's first official day at work.
"I was a little surprised, but shocked? Not at all," said Donavan Simmons, a 1997 graduate of GSU.
Simmons said quick action was needed, considering "all the transition and uncertainty taking place within the athletics department recently." He listed as lingering concerns a still-unresolved Chicago date against Mississippi Valley and a defensive coordinator position that has been open for months, among other things.
Ralph Wilson, president of Grambling State's Quarterback Club, said promoting the program is essential.
"It's my hope that the replacement is someone who will be upwardly mobile and someone who can realistically move the athletic department forward," Wilson said. "He or she, I would hope, would be extremely personable and sensitive to the needs of students who choose to be athletes at this institution, be task oriented - as well as have a commitment to raising external funds for the continuity and success of our various athletic programs."
Too, any candidate should have an all-encompassing regard for athletics.
"The new athletics director has to be a person who is going to support whatever sports the school decides to move into - while growing the football program," said Collie Nicholson, a living legend who served as sports information director during the glory years of Eddie Robinson's tenure as head football coach.
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