The A&T-NCCU incident
As tomorrow's editorial will note, the fracas at Saturday's A&T game is hardly unique in college athletics.
Name your rivalry: East Carolina-N.C. State. Clemson-South Carolina. North Carolina-N.C. State. And you can name at least one, probably more, incidents of fighting among players and hooliganism among fans, including injured police and state troopers.
That doesn't excuse what happened after what, by all accounts, was a really good game between A&T and arch rival N.C. Central.
What is most disturbing is the possible provocation of the incident by NCCU coaches. A&T Athletics Director Dee Todd says she personally saw coaches leading the Central players in stomping the Aggie logo at midfield and in taunting of the A&T players and giving them middle-finger salutes.
If NCCU is serious about resolving the matter, those coaches need to be held accountable. They, of all people, should know better.
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First of all I am a proud Aggie and that just show me how the (other) people like to see NCAT(HBCU)act. The football team doesn't make the school. I really hate it for Dr Stanley and his colleages but it happen and all we need to do is move on. And hope next year be a better Aggie year. AGGIE PRIDE 2010!!!!!!!
Posted on December 7, 2007 7:31 AM
First of all I am a proud Aggie and that just show me how the (other) people like to see NCAT(HBCU)act. The football team doesn't make the school. I really hate it for Dr Stanley and his colleages but it happen and all we need to do is move on. And hope next year be a better Aggie year. AGGIE PRIDE 2010!!!!!!!
Posted on December 7, 2007 7:31 AM