UNDER THE BANNER
What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
ROBERTSON TO SC STATE: Bowie State University Women's Basketball Coach Doug Robertson has resigned his position to
accept the head coaching post
at South Carolina State. SCSU, a member of the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), finished
the 2007-2008 season in seventh place with a conference record of 9-7
(13-17 overall). During his three years with the BSU, Robertson compiled
a record of 53-33 (.616), led the Lady Bulldogs to the
Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association (CIAA) Eastern Division title and was named
the 2007-2008 CIAA coach of the year. Prior to his stint
at Bowie State, Robertson served as the number one
assistant for Delaware State from 2000 to 2005 and helped
guide them to an 82-64 overall record and three MEAC
Championships game appearances in five years. The Department
of Athletics will begin the search for a new coach head
coach at BSU immediately.PARSONS OUT AT HOWARD: Howard
University released a statement last week announcing that Head Women's
Basketball 
Coach Cathy Parson will not return. Parson had coached the
Lady Bison for eight seasons with a combined record of 96-127. This
year Howard finished 4-26 and was eliminated in the first round of the
MEAC Tournament. Parson becomes the fourth MEAC women's
basketball coach to resign or be released this year.
McCLELLAND MOVES TO TSU: Prairie View
A&M athletics director Charles
MeClelland was named athletic director at
nearby 
Texas Southern last week. He will succeed
Alois Blackwell who was fired in February. Recently hired
head football coach Johnnie Cole has served as AD in the
interim. McClelland submitted his resignation to PVAM president
George Wright last Wednesday morning.
"I view Charles McClelland's resignation and going to TSU as a great loss for us," Wright
said. "I hate to see him leave. He did a very good job in a
very challenging situation." McClelland had been AD at
Prairie View for eight years. The program had won 14 SWAC
titles in the last five years. During the 2006-07 season,
Panther Athletics won the SWAC's C.D. Henry Award, symbolic
of overall excellence among the conference's male
sponsored sports. PVAM finished second overall in the
2006-07 SWAC Commissioner's Cup race, symbolic of
overall athletic excellence in the conference. Going into this
year's spring sports season, PVAM ranked second overall in
the race for the 2008 SWAC Commissioner's Cup.
Texas Southern was ninth in the ten team rankings.
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