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Black College Sports
Howard shows rs
By BARRY COOPER
Syndicated Columnist
A year ago, Joe Taylor was a wide-eyed, eager footbal
_coach, ready to take charge of the Howard Universit
team and lead it back to respectability.
Today, Taylor is a hurt, angry man.
He ought to be.
Howard University, considered the classiest black col
lege in America, has committed a very unclassy act.
With little warning recently, and without comment, th
Bison fired Taylor and hired Willie Jeffries, head coac
at Wichita State.
"I didn't know a thing about it," a shocked Taylo
told reporters. "1 don't think it is fair to have me on
recruiting top kids while all this goes on behind my back
I was kept in the dark."
If it is true that Taylor did not know what was coming
that he had no reason to believe his job was in danger
then an atrocity of the highest order has been committed
Apparently, Howard was so eager to hire Jeffries tha
it wvould stop at little to get him. Jeffries, upon resignin
at Wichita State, said Howard had contacted him eacl
year for the last five years.
Jeffries formerly coached at South Carolina Stat
before moving to Wichita five years ago. Jeffries, 44
compiled a 2L-32-2 record at Wichita after winning fiv
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference titles at S.C. State.
The beef here is not with Jeffries, though. He is a fin
football coach, and certainly has the skills to make a win
ner out of Howard.
But it is not fair to toss a man into the cold with \v
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warning, which is what Howard did with Taylor.
_ The Taylor episode further illustrates how black college
athletics have changed. Not too many years ago,
1 black college ball was a family affair. There was no uny
due pressure to win, and coaches rarely were fired. All
that has changed now. More than~a"half-dozen black eoTlege
coaches have been fired since November, and the
edict from the school presidents seems clear: Win or else.
I- Much of this can be traced to the black colleges' move
to Division 1-AA in football and Division I in all other
e sports. The higher competition makes it all but impossih
ble for some schools to post winning records, yet their
alumni fail to understand that,
r Certainly,- whenever a coach accepts a position, he
t takes it with the promise'to build a winner. But as more
and more black college coaches are beginning to discover,
it cannot be done with just words. It takes money and
;, resources, something many schools just don't have.
Chances are that no longer will be a factor at Howard,
i. The Bison in the past have not spent much money on
,t football facilities and the like, but it is a safe bet Jeffries
g was promised that would change.
h Suddenly, we will see a Howard coach get the kind of
snnnnrt Iop Tavlnr wich hnrt
e In the end, Taylor would have settled for a little common
decency. So would his five assistant coaches, who
e also were fired.
"Maybe I shouldn't say this," said Taylor, "but it
e seems like somebody else is trying to save their own job
i- by firing me. If they had been up front with me, let me
know what was going on But this is just an example of
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