Albany State AD resigns
March 23, 2006
The Albany
Herald has reported that Albany
State athletic director and head men's basketball
coach John I. Davis has resigned effective
June 30, 2006. The paper reports that he handed
in his letter or resignation on Friday, March
17 and that school president Everette J. Freeman
accepted the resignation later that day.
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Davis' departure ends two separate stints
at ASU.
His first stint at Albany State began in 1976,
when he accepted the role as men’s assistant
basketball coach under Coach
Oliver Jones, while teaching at the college’s
Hazard Laboratory School. Davis held that position
until 1982, when he was named head coach of
the women’s basketball team. He was women's
coach from 1982-90.
During that time he also
started the Golden Ram's volleball program
and served as head coach from 1986-90.
He was inducted into the Albany Sports Hall
of Fame in 1996
From 1990-2000, the Albany Sports Hall of
Fame inductee (1996) and Golden Ram alum (1969)
worked in various administrative positions
in the Dougherty County School System.
Davis was coaxed into returning to his alma
mater by then-president Portia Holmes Shields.
The school had been placed on probation and
Shields wanted Davis to oversee the school's
efforts to get back into compliance with NCAA
Division II standards.
Davis returned in 2001 as both athletic director
and head men's basketball coach.
Last year, ASU went off probation and the
men's basketball team won the regular-season
SIAC title.
For the past two years, Albany State has won
the SIAC's All-Sports Trophy as the top overall
athletics program. The school won titles in
seven of its 11 sports last year and has already
captured three of four fall championships (football,
volleyball and women's cross country) this
season.
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