Inside Hotlanta and The SIAC
August 18, 2000

Mo Hunt to handle Morehouse Track Relays

• Former Morehouse College Head Football Coach Maurice" Mo" Hunt will be returning to campus to coordinate the famed Morehouse Relays. Morehouse AD Andre Patillo asked his former head coach to handle things which should be easy for Hunt. Willie Hill, the aerodyte track and field coach at Morehouse, came to the school 21 years ago with Hunt when the two were hired out of Central State of Ohio. Hunt is living and working in Jackson Tenneesee. His last coaching assignment was at Lane College.
• Speaking of Patillo, he has hit the ground running as AD at the House, cracking the whip and shaping up the physical plant and bringing much needed change. He has spent money to improve the weight and training rooms, has has the gridiron of BT Harvey Stadum resodded and is negotiating for a brand new scoreboard. Patillo, one of the country's top basketball officials, is also calling on his vast network of corporate and alumni contacts to generate more funding for the athletic program.
  "My mission here, as I see it, is to bring Morehouse athletics to the level where it's academics have always been." Actually, save football possibly, Morehouse's athletic program is already there. It's basketball program is the only one in the AU center and among only a handful of black college teams to make it all the way to an NCAA Division II final four. Its track and field team is the stuff legends are made for. Last yeear, their 4x100 team won the Penn Relays. Their tennis program is ranked among the top 5 in the NCAA Divsion II.
  Patillo, who actually came to Morehouse on a baseball scholarship, plans to poll the student body soon to gauge interest in the sport and plans to esablish a club golf team and see if there is any interest in re-establishing a swimming team. I've known Andre a long time from his days at Decatur High School to Morehouse and during his brief fling with pro baseball as a member of the Braves organization. He will get things done at the school because he isn't afraid to ask, is hardly the type to be intimidated, demands no more or less from his staff and coaches and has no qualms about rolling up his sleeves and doing the job himself if he has to.
• There is no designated home team for the Labor Day Classic featuring CAU and Morehouse so everybody, students included, will have to pony up for a ducat.
• Wallace Jackson, the former SIAC Commiisoner may soon become professor Jackson. He's reportedly talking with Georgia State University about a teaching post.
• Clark AU Head Coach Curtis Crockett says their two a days have been encouraging. He says the defense is shaping up to be the strength of the red and black in 2000. He will also have a few offensive weapons to toss at opponents to include quarterback Micheal White and all conference candidate Charles Turner.
• CAU alum and referee Moses Norman will be suiting up in the black and white stripes for his 41st year. Norman, a retired Atlanta School area superintendent, now calls games in the SIAC and the MEAC.

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