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Top assistant gets his shot at NC A&T
One of the MEAC's premier assistant coaches will get his first head coaching assignment at North Carolina A&T. Aggies Director of Athletics Wheeler Brown announced last week the hiring of Alonzo Lee Sr. as the school's new head football coach.
MEAC sidelines have been graced by Lee's presence over the past
25 years. In seven of those seasons, Lee was a part of an MEAC
championship team. At three of the universities where he won championships
Howard, Hampton and A&T Lee was the assistant head coach. He served as
A&T's defensive coordinator and linebackers coach during the 2003-05 seasons.
Lee comes to A&T after spending three seasons as Morgan State's defensive coordinator. Over the past two seasons, Lee's defenses have ranked among the top two in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA). In 2008, the Bears led the nation in total defense.
"Alonzo Lee has been an accomplished coordinator and assistant in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference for many years," said Brown. "Lee has proven that he has the ability to win as a head coach. He knows this conference, what it will take to win in the conference, and will bring the needed toughness and discipline our football program has lacked over the past few years."
The Aggies turn to Lee after a disastrous nearly three-year run under Lee Fobbs who was let go midway thru the 2008 season after compiling a dismal 2-28 mark. Former running backs coach George Ragsdale led the team for the remainder of the season and was reportedly a finalist for the head job.
Prior to coaching at A&T, Lee also served as an assistant at Howard, Florida A&M and Hampton. He won his first MEAC championship as an assistant head coach at Howard in 1987. Florida A&M won three MEAC titles during Lee's tenure (1990, 1995, 1996), and Hampton won two (1997, 1998). In 1998 as the defensive coordinator at Hampton, Lee was honored as the National Assistant Coach of the Year for NCAA Division I-AA. Three seasons later, he was honored by the All-America Football Foundation as an Outstanding Assistant Coach.
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