UNDER THE BANNER
What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
STREETER OUT AT MILES: Miles College head football coach Wade Streeter was fired Thursday after his seventh Golden Bears' team finished winless in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Miles was 2-9 on the year after going 5-5 in 2006, although the Golden Bears forfeited all their wins after it was discovered an ineligible player had participated during the season.
Miles Athletics Director Augustus
James said the school was still waiting to hear from
the NCAA regarding its investigation of the eligibility
violations, which also affected the men's basketball team, and
that that issue had nothing to do with Streeter's firing. "We
need to look for some different leadership," James said.
"We're trying to do some ambitious stuff out there. It's just time.
He did a good job for us, but it just may be time." Streeter
was 35-41 in seven seasons at Miles, with his 2003 and
2004 teams both going 7-4 for the best back-to-back finishes
in school history. His SIAC record was 27-28. Streeter
was fired with time remaining on his contract, but neither he
nor Miles administrators would say how much.
SNEAD TO LEAD LANE: Lane College announced last week the promotion of
Dearrion Snead to 
head football coach. He
replaces Johnnie Cole, who was named head football coach at
Texas Southern the previous week. Snead was Lane's defensive
coordinator last season, his first on the Dragons' staff. This will
be his first job as a head coach. Last season, Lane's defense
ranked second in the SIAC and 11th in NCAA Division II. Prior to
joining the staff at Lane, Snead was defensive back coach and
special teams coordinator at Shaw for one year following a stint
as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at
Guilford College. Snead, 38, has also coached at Arizona
Western College, Texas Southern, Virginia
State], Southwest State University, Tiffin University,
Tennessee State and East Stroudsburg University. A member of the Longwood
(NY) High School Athletics Hall of Fame, Snead is a
1996 graduate of St. Joseph's in Long Island. He began his
college career at North Carolina A&T, where he played
varsity football.
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