October 24, 2014
There is no larger single event on the yearly calendar of the City of Greensboro than N. C. A&T’s Homecoming weekend. Not even the ACC tournament. It is a wonderment all to itself. Commonly referred these days as GHOE (The Greatest Homecoming on Earth), this traditional October festival will bring an expected 45,000 visitors into […]
October 2, 2014
Football is an extremely hard sport on one’s physical being and rarely does any team manage to get through a season without injuries and A&T is no exception. The Aggies traveled up to Washington, DC last week to take on a tough Howard squad led by their all world senior quarterback Greg McGhee.The 7,230 fans […]
September 13, 2014
N.C. A&T head football coach Rod Broadway found out three very important things about his football team last weekend against Coastal Carolina. First, the talent gap between the Aggies and the fifth ranked Chanticleers that was once as pronounced as the Grand Canyon three years ago is now almost nonexistent. The second revelation was that […]
September 5, 2014
It’s been one heck of a week for the North Carolina A&T football team. There was the excitement of opening the season in Orlando, FL in the shadows of Disney World last Sunday morning as the conference representative in the 10th Annual MEAC-SWAC Challenge. The Aggies didn’t disappoint their fans. After a feeling out process […]
August 10, 2014
If you’re like me the New Year really didn’t begin back January 1 but it officially starts every Labor Day weekend. Spring practice wets the appetite but it is September that really gets the juices flowing for football fans. The first impression of most unknowing fans is formed from what they hear on a quick […]
November 22, 2013
For the 85th time in the history of the two of largest and most storied HBCUs in the State of North Carolina, the time for one special fall afternoon on the gridiron has come around again. The annual football meeting between North A&T and North Carolina Central remains the center point for thousands of fans […]
November 16, 2013
Losing to Morgan State last week 24-23 in another nail biter of a game for the second year in a row and for the third time this year, one recurring theme is consistent evident in all of those losses – penalties in the red zone. Nothing was ever more frustrating than to see A&T have […]
October 25, 2013
Month ago Saturday’s game in Tallahassee between NC. A&T and Florida A&M would have had major implications in the title chase within the MEAC. However, with A&T losing three straight ball games by 5 points or less behind an offense that has been bogged down with injuries in the offensive line, inconsistency at quarterback and […]
October 19, 2013
Last week was an exact carbon copy of the beginning of last year’s midseason slide that saw the Aggies drop out of a contention of a likely one or two top finisher to a fourth place seed. This year it was losing to winless Hampton team in a bitter 31-26 loss that saw the Aggies […]
October 11, 2013
A&T suffered a tough loss to South Carolina State last weekend in the Atlanta Football classic 29-25 in a game where the lack of fundamentals that Rod Broadway had harped on for the first three weeks of the season finally caught up with the Aggies – loose tackling, poor decision-making in making reads, and special […]
October 4, 2013
Just three years ago, A&T was about a low as a football program could possibly be. Coming off a dreadful 1-11 campaign, barely removed from a three-year long 27-game losing streak, a APR score that placed the school on probation and the loss of 20 plus scholarships and a mass exodus of athletes who had […]
September 23, 2013
Since all of the big props have now all but died down around east Greensboro over opening wins against SoCon opponents Appalachian State and Elon its time to get down to the real business of the MEAC race. The Aggies had the weekend off, a few days of rest, and a full ten days to […]