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Overheard at the SWAC Championship . . .
- Alabama State
 head
coach L. C. Cole signed a contract Friday night at 9:30 p.m., to remain
at ASU, ending a two-year ordeal to get it done. Cole, who interviewed earlier
in the week for the South Carolina State head coaching vacancy, has not
had a contract since leaving Tennessee State to take over the Hornet program.
The five-year deal has a base pay of $130,000 per year.
- Mississippi Valley State Athletic Director, Lonza Hardy announced
Thursday that head football coach LaTraia Jones has been reassigned to
another part of the MVSU athletic department. The Delta Devils finished winless
(0-11) this year after 3-8 and 2-9 campaigns under Jones' leadership.
- The SWAC Council of Presidents voted Thursday to keep the conference's television
package with VUE-TV of Ohio in place despite the halt of telecasts this year after
Sept. 29. The company was to televise 13 regular season football games and 16
basketball games this season but halted the telecasts in late September due to
financial difficulties.
- The announced crowd of 38,487 for the third championship game was larger than
last year's total of 34,687 for Grambling/Alabama A&M but not quite
as large as the first game in 1999 between Jackson State and Southern
(47,621). Preliminary indications are that this year's game will finish in the
black (as in "make money") for the first time in its history.
- SWAC Interim Commissioner, Dr. James Frank said Saturday that
attorneys for the conference have filed a motion for summary judgment in the case
against former Commissioner Rudy Washington. The hearing on the motion
will be held on January 16, 2002 before Judge Jack Carl of the Jefferson County
(Al.) Circuit Court. John Falkenberry of Birmingham, counsel to Washington,
said the materials related to the case are voluminous including 64 exhibits and
an over 70-page brief.
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