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S.C. State's Pough gets extension
South Carolina State announced on June
9 that head football coach Oliver "Buddy"
Pough has been given a two-year contract
extension. The extension keeps Pough under contract
through the 2011 season.
Athletics Director Charlene Johnson, who is in her third year with the Bulldogs, had her contract extended three years. It will run to June 30, 2009 with terms of the agreement being negotiated.
`Also beginning July 1, Pough's total package is set for $200,000 annually with a base salary of $175,000, as well as $25,000 from the Buddy Pough weekly football highlight show.
The Bulldogs finished 9-2 last season, Pough's second straight nine-win season. In both years they finished behind champion Hampton in the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference standings.
"It's great to have a couple more years," Pough said. "I'm really grateful for the confidence the administration has demonstrated in me. But, I'm only small part of the equation and give credit to the players, the staff and overall operations for what we have achieved the last few seasons."
Pough is a native of Orangeburg and a 1975 graduate of SCSU. As an assistant with the Bulldogs in the 1980s, Pough helped guide SCSU to four MEAC championships and two I-AA playoff appearances.
Southern's Cador staying put
Southern University baseball coach
Roger Cador has decided to remain at the Baton
Rouge, La., school and not take the same job at Jackson State.
Cador, 55, the coach at Southern for the last 21 years, was wooed for the JSU job by his longtime friend, veteran Tigers' baseball coach Robert Braddy, now JSU's athletic director. But Cador said this week in a published story in the Baton Rouge Advocate that he was staying put.
"I could have doubled my salary by going to Jackson State," said Cador who could have retired from Southern to take the JSU post. "But when you look at my friendships, that in itself made it easier."
Cador has guided the Jaguars to 13 SWAC championships and has won the SWAC coach of the year award 13 times. His 1987 Southern squad was the first HBCU team to win a game in the NCAA Tournament. His 1996 Jags team was the first to win an NCAA play-in game.
The 1975 Southern grad became Southern's coach in 1984 and has compiled a 671-354-1 record.
Salter seeking reinstatement at Jackson State
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports
this week that recently fired Jackson State
baseball coach Mark Salter is working with
Montgomery, Al.-based attorney Don Jackson to try
and get his job back.
JSU suspended and then fired Salter in May after it was found that two academically ineligible players had been used throughout the season. The Tigers forfeited nearly all of their SWAC wins and missed the SWAC postseason tournament as a result. On May 31, it was announced that Salter's coaching contract would not be renewed as of June 30.
"I just want to get my name cleared and also get my other players and coaches cleared," Salter told the Clarion-Ledger. "We've been in contact with Jackson State about this. I shouldn't have lost my job. There was never anything intentional on my part. NCAA compliance issues and academic issues are not my responsibility."
When Salter's dismissal was announced, JSU athletic director Bob Braddy explained that it was a lack of championships during Salter's tenure rather than the eligibility issue that led to his dismissal. But the Clarion-Ledger reports that a memo given to Salter on May 10 from Braddy suggests differently, saying Salter was "relieved of all coaching responsibilities effective immediately" because of "participation of ineligible players during the 2005-06 baseball season."
Salter told the newspaper that JSU is not adequately staffed to deal with compliance issues for up to a dozen sports.
"All I know is that there's no point in having an athletic department if you can't stay within the rules," Braddy was quoted by the paper as saying. "We intend to stay within the rules."
Braddy would not say if he would consider re-instating Salter. He said a new coach should be in place by July 1. JSU assistant Omar Johnson is a candidate for the job.
Southern recruits taken
in '06 MLB Draft
Two Southern University signees
were among the players selected in the recent
Major League Baseball draft.
Cedric Hunter was selected by the San Diego Padres with the 93rd pick in the third round, while Michael Thomas was selected in the 22nd round by the Baltimore Orioles, 672nd overall,
Hunter, an outfielder from Decatur, Ga., batted .565 with 12 home runs, 21 RBIs and 20 stolen bases this past season. He also walked 28 times, while striking out a mere two times. He also had a staggering 1.160 slugging percentage.
Thomas, a catcher from Houston's Thurgood Marshall High School, is a first team All-District selection as well as a South All-Star game participant. Thomas batted .415 with five home runs, 13 doubles, one triple and 26 RBIs this past season. He also had a .793 slugging percentage.
FAMU's Johnson to transfer
According to a report in last Friday's
Tallahassee Democrat, 2006 MEAC Softball
Freshman of the Year, Tiffany Johnson of MEAC
champion Florida A&M, has decided to leave
the school.
In the report, Florida A&M head softball coach Veronica Wiggins confirmed last week that Johnson, who was 15-6 this season with an earned-run average of 1.95, asked to be released from her scholarship but did not give a reason for the request.
Wiggins said she did not know where Johnson, who is from Ellenwood, Ga., has decided to transfer. Johnson was a standout in the Lady Rattlers' rotation that featured MEAC Tournament MVP, Danielle Brown, who went 20-10 this season with a 2.81 ERA and finished as FAMU's all-time strikeout leader.
As a position player, Johnson started all of the Lady Rattlers' 57 games and was fourth on the team in hitting. She notched five homeruns and drove in 27 runs.
Johnson was the starting pitcher in the Lady Rattlers' 10-7 loss to Georgia Tech that knocked them out of the first round of the recent NCAA Tournament.
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