FAMU ready to name new football coach on Wednesday

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida A&M will introduce its new football coach at a 1 p.m. news conference Wednesday, which means that if a candidate didn't get a phone call -- and a plane ticket -- by Monday night, he probably isn't the man.Kent Schoolfield, the offensive coordinator at North Carolina A&T, is pretty sure it isn't him. - College Football -
Schoolfield, a former Florida State assistant and a FAMU alum, isn't even sure he'd be prepared to accept the job if it were offered, as some of his questions went unanswered in an abbreviated one-day interview last week. - College Football -
"To sum up this whole thing, it really comes at a bad time, for Florida A&M and for me also, with our kids coming in in two weeks," Schoolfield said. "And I would definitely need to come back down again [to interview a second time]."He said he was disappointed he never received a phone call after he requested the university contact him within 48 hours of his interview last Tuesday with some kind of update. - College Football -
Schoolfield spent much of his visit bumping into former Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator Alex Wood, who interviewed the same day. Wood didn't return calls Monday.Deondri Clark, an Orlando native and currently the coach at Division II Shaw in Raleigh, N.C., said he last heard from FAMU before interim athletic director E. Newton Jackson Jr. left for a brief vacation late last week. Clark said he was told he would hear something after a Monday meeting.Winston-Salem State assistant Linwood Ferguson could not be reached Monday, nor could Temple defensive line coach Rubin Carter, who stands out as a potential big-name boon for FAMU. A former All-American at Miami, Carter also played for the Denver Broncos for 11 years before becoming an assistant in the NFL and in college. - College Football -

Emily Badger
Sentinel Staff Writer