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UNDER THE BANNER What's Going On In and Around Black College Sports
WHERE'S THE MONEY: Former Alabama State head football coach Ron Dickerson is suing the school saying payments on his five-year, $124,000 per year contract signed in 1997 have stopped. Dickerson was fired last year only two years into the contract after posting 5-6 and 2-9 records. The suit, claiming civil conspiracy, wrongful discharge, and deprivation of due process, says payments stopped May 11. Dickerson names former president William Harris, former interim president Roosevelt Steptoe, former athletic director William Head and a host of other board of trustees members in the suit. Dickerson's attorney, Donald Jackson, says the school owes his client approximately $200,000. © 2001 Azeez Communications, Inc.
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THOMAS
TAKES CHAIR: Dr. Dennis E. Thomas, currently director of athletics of Hampton
University, has been named chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's
(NCAA) Division I-AA Football Committee. The NCAA I-AA Football Committee is responsible
for overseeing the Division I-AA football championships. Dr. Thomas, entering
his 12th year with the Pirates, also serves on the NCAA Football Issues Committee,
a Board of Directors member of the National Football Foundation and College Hall
of Fame, committee member of the Division I-AA Honors Court Committee which selects
Hall of Fame members from Division I-AA football institutions, chairman of the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Basketball Tournament Committee and board
member of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.