For the Week of June 19 -25, 2018 HBCU players gettin' it on in CFL

LUT WILLIAMS BLACK COLLEGE PLAYERS ON BCSP Editor 2018 OPENING DAY CFL ROSTERS The League ™ (CFL) began play last week with 18 WEST DIVISION former HBCU players on opening day BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS (5) rosters. Eleven (11) of the 18 are from 84 Emmanuel Arceneaux SB Alcorn State Mid Eastern Athletic Conference 63 Jovan Olafioye OL North Carolina Central (MEAC) schools with four hailing 8 Marcell Young DB Jackson State from the Southwestern Athletic Con- 13 IL Kevin Elliott WR Florida A&M ference (SWAC). 50 PS Phillip Norman OL Bethune Cookman B-C Lions Photo JONES: At Southern (l.) and with the Hamil- (2) THEY PLAY Emmanuel Arceneaux, a slot- ARCENEAUX: Former ton Tiger-Cats (r). 77 INJ Brandon Peguese DL Hampton FOOTBALL Alcorn State player back out of Alcorn State, and Mike 17 PS Larry Brihm QB Bethune-Cookman UP NORTH among others making Jones, a receiver out of Southern, are 27-19 loss to Saskatchewan Friday. EDMONTON ESKIMOS (0) their mark in the Canadian the veterans of the group. A. C. Leonard, who had 85 re- SASKATCHEWAN ROUGH RIDERS (4) IN JUNE Football League (CFL). Arceneaux is playing in his ceptions, over 1,000 receiving yards 66 Dariusz Bladek OL Bethune-Cookman eighth CFL season, all with the British and 11 TDs in his Tennessee State ca- 68 OL Mississippi Valley State DAVIS OUT AT TEXAS SOUTHERN, FOBBS EX- Columbia Lions. He has posted three reer, is now a defensive tackle for the 9 David Watford QB Hampton TENDED AT GRAMBLING; NEW TUSKEGEE COACH straight 1,000-yard receiving seasons, . He registered 33 27 IL Kevin Francis LB North Carolina A&T topping the 100-catch mark the past tackles, 24 pressures, five (0) two seasons. He has totalled 524 re- quarterback sacks, three tackles for loss EAST DIVISION ceptions and 7,616 receiving yards in and one forced last season. (2) his storied career. He had four catches HAMILTON TIGER-CATS UNDER THE BANNER Leonard, out of the Ohio Val- 12 Mike Jones WR Southern for 41 yards as the Lions beat Montreal ley Conference, and former Hampton 98 PS Lynden Trail DL Norfolk State WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS 22-10 in their season-opener Saturday. quarterback David Watford, now with (3) Jones, a Toronto native, was a the Saskatchewan Rough Riders, are 2 Dominique Ellis DB South Carolina State FOBBS EXTENDED AT GRAMBLING: third round selection in the 2016 CFL the former HBCU players out of non- 31 William Stanback RB Virginia Union Broderick Fobbs will be the Grambling State Draft by Hamilton and is entering his HBCU conferences. Hampton left the 26 PS C. J. Moore DB North Carolina Central head football coach for at least the third season. He played in 14 games MEAC for the Big South Conference OTTAWA REDBLACKS (1) next four years. last season totalling 28 receptions for after the 2017-18 season. Watford had 95 A. C. Leonard DL Tennessee State That is after Fobbs and the univer- 285 yards and one touchdown. Jones a short stint in the NFL as a receiver for TORONTO AUGONAUTS (1) 18 Brian Tyms WR Florida A&M sity reached an agreement on a four- had five receptions for 120 yards in the the Philadelphia Eagles. year, $1.28 million deal. Tiger-Cats' 28-14 loss to Calgary Sat- William Stanback, who rushed urday. Approval of the agreement is pend- for 1,299 yards and 15 TDs at Vir- In a related note, let it be known that running on the field at Former Florida A&M wide ginia Union a CFL game is a terrible idea, especially when British Columbia ing from the University of Louisiana in 2016, is playing his first receiver Bryan Tyms, who played season for the Montreal Alouettes. He Lions' Marcell Young, a defensive back out of Jackson State, is System Board of Supervisors, which for five NFL teams and won a Super is the lone former Central Intercol- around. During Saturday's CFL opener between BC and Montreal, Fobbs is expected to be approved during a Bowl championship in 2014 with the legiate Athletic Association (CIAA) one half-naked fan went for a stroll on the BC Place field with meeting on June 21. New England Patriots, is now playing player in the league. minimal effort from security giving chase. Fobbs, who was entering the last year of a two-year for his second CFL squad, the Toronto Bethune-Cookman has three of When the streaker got within the vicinity of the Lions de- contract extension he signed in 2016, will earn a base Argonauts. He was picked up by Ham- its former players on rosters including fensive back, he was on the receiving end of a brutal tackle. (See salary of $198,000 and includes an additional $121,000 ilton in time to play in one regular sea- quarterback Larry Brihm who threw video here: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/06/cfl-bc-lions-streak- from the Grambling State Foundation. son game last season and posted eight for over 2,200 yards and 12 TDs for the er-video-marcell-young-hit-football-canada-fan-on-the-field). The deal also outlines several potential bonuses catches for 114 yards in a semifinal Wildcats last season. Brihm is on the BC went on to win, 22-10. It was a great night all around Fobbs could get tied to the success of the team. game. Tyms had two receptions for 23 Practice Squad of the Calgary Stam- for Young — who had four tackles in the win, not so much for the Fobbs could see a $15,000 bump if Grambling yards as the Argonauts opened with a peders. streaker. achieves the Academic Progress Rate (APR) benchmark, another 15,000 for the Tigers winning the Black Nation- al Championship, an additional $25,000 for a Celebra- tion Bowl victory, $10,000 for a SWAC title, $7,500 for BCSP Notes knocking off Southern in the Bayou Classic and $10,000 NC A&T's Aggie Stadium to be and amateur meets that have drawn thousands of for being named SWAC Coach of the Year. renamed BB&T Stadium athletes from around the country. The A&T foot- ball team won five games at Aggie Stadium on Under Fobbs, Grambling is 39-11 since 2014, in- GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina its way to a 12-0 season, capped by 21-14 win cluding two league championships and a Black College Agricultural and Technical State University’s over Grambling State in the Celebration Bowl, National Championship in 2016. Aggie Stadium will be renamed BB&T Stadium, in the national championship game. "Clearly, he is a leader among leaders," GSU thanks to a significant gift from the banking A&T won MEAC conference champi- and financial services corporation, officials President Rick Gallot told the Monroe News-Star. onships in football, men’s and women’s track, announced last week. "When you look at everything he has does on and off- women’s basketball, bowling and baseball. The $1.5-million gift will secure the nam- the-field, I think he’s the kind of coach we certainly NEW NAME: Press box at the renamed BB&T Stadium. "As a local corporate citizen, BB&T has a ing rights of the 37-year-old facility for the next believe is good for Grambling and for the football strong track record of supporting the communi- 15 years and will go toward renovations and up- foot forward in our facilities." program. We're very thankful the Foundation has been ties it serves," said Ford Bowers, BB&T Greens- grades of the A&T athletics complex. The 125,755-square-foot facility that will able to get involved and make the difference. That was boro Market President. "We are proud to work "Athletics are often described as the front now be known as BB&T Stadium, opened in with A&T and very excited that the stadium will not something he demanded. The Foundation stepped up doors for universities, the entry point for those 1981 and was expanded in 2003 to its current display the BB&T name." and wanted to invest in the future of the program and the outside our campuses to learn about our cam- seating capacity of 27,769. Other enhancements “The Greensboro market is very impor- university. That's what they wanted to do." puses and institutions," said Earl Hilton, A&T's have been added over the years, including light- tant to BB&T and this investment is a perfect director of Intercollegiate Athletics. ing to accommodate night games and practices fit. We are pleased to support this great venue NEW TUSKEGEE HOOPS COACH: "The success of our sports teams this past and a state-of-the-art video scoreboard. which enhances the region’s vibrancy and raises Tuskegee University Director of Athletics, Willie year has created a new level of visibility for ath- The Irwin Belk Track that rings the sta- the awareness of BB&T and our commitment to letics at A&T, and we are truly appreciative of dium's football field is not only home base for Slater has announced the hiring the communities we serve.” of Trelanne Moore-Powell BB&T's support that will help us put our best the A&T track teams, but collegiate, high school as the school's new women's head basketball coach. She was officially introduced at a media Davis leaves Texas Southern for Detroit Mercy press conference Wednesday LUT WILLIAMS give them that. I could give them "I flew here not to take it (the morning on campus inside Logan BCSP Editor the end of where we wanted to be job). And I flew back and said 'This Hall. It is now official. Mike Davis and I felt that anything that could is where I'm going to come,' " Da- Moore-Powell Moore-Powell takes over is leaving Texas Southern to be- be done in college basketball, we vis said, referring to Detroit Mercy. from Quacy Barnes-Timmons who left for a position at come the new head coach at Detroit could do it at Texas Southern. Robert C. Vowels, Jr., the di- Indiana State. Mercy basketball. "I feel the same way here." rector of athletics at Detroit Mercy, Moore-Powell comes to Tuskegee after spending The official announcement and Davis, who has been a college is the former commissioner of the the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Mercer press conference was last Thursday, head coach for 18 years including SWAC and was a neighbor of Da- June 14 after initial reports from University, where she helped lead the team to the 2017- stops at Indiana and Alabama-Bir- vis when he coached at UAB. TSU on June 5 had Davis leaving mingham before spending the last "We are pleased to have Mike 18 Southern Conference Regular Season and Tourna- to take over at Detroit Mercy, a de- six seasons at TSU, becomes De- Davis join us as our new men's bas- ment crowns posting a 24-9 overall and 12-2 conference velopment that DMU Athletics Di- troit Mercy's 22nd men's basketball ketball head coach," Vowels said. record. She was also a part of assisting the Bears win the rector Robert Vowels Jr. denied. coach. "Mike has achieved great success DAVIS: Gone to Detroit Mercy. 2016-17 and 2015-16 Regular Season Championships. But the news proved true, even He has 14 winning seasons as a coach and leader of young Before her time at Mercer, Moore-Powell was if it took DMU a little more time to under his belt and a 352-241 ca- men, and as an individual, he re- committed from Houston and was the head assistant coach at Francis Marion University, work out the details. reer record, including nine NCAA flects the values upon which our scheduled to play for his father at a Division II school in Florence, S.C. While at Francis Davis, who was a surprise suc- Tournament appearances. University is built. I am confident TSU. But he did not say or indicate Marion, Moore's duties included player development, cessor to famed Indiana coach Bob- In his six seasons leading he will help return Titan basketball whether Antoine would be follow- recruiting, serving as an academic liaison, film coordina- by Knight in 2000, says he has liter- Texas Southern to the top of the to a championship level." ing him to Detroit Mercy. Davis tion and public relations. ally seen it all in college basketball Southwestern Athletic Confer- Detroit Mercy President An- also said he would like to bring his "We are thrilled that Coach Moore-Powell has ac- and hopes to bring his experience to ence, he posted a 115-89 (.564) toine Garibaldi noted Davis's team entire staff from TSU with him to bear in his new job. cepted our offer to become the new women's basketball overall record, including an 88-20 GPA of 3.0, four consecutive se- the new job. "My first job was Indiana, my mark in SWAC play. His teams mesters of a perfect 1000 Academic head coach at Tuskegee," Slater said. "She had tremen- TSU Vice President of Athlet- second job was UAB, my third job won four regular-season titles, four Progress Rate (APR) and gradua- ics Dr. Charles McClelland issued dous success as an assistant at Mercer University, where was Texas Southern, and in the conference tournament champion- tion of 18 of 20 players over his last a short statement on the school's she was able to help them win their league three straight coaching profession it goes the op- ships and advanced to four NCAA six years at TSU. "I am confident athletic website. years in a very difficult Southern Conference. Her expe- posite" said Davis at Thursday's Tournaments. that his motivation and inspiration "Since arriving at TSU Coach rience coaching in the NCAA Tournament along with a press conference. "It goes Texas In his final season at the helm will energize the entire university Davis has helped establish a basket- proven track record as an outstanding recruiter also made Southern, UAB, Indiana. So I got a of TSU, the Tigers won their first- and the city of Detroit," Garibaldi ball program that has consistently this a home run hire". chance to see the end before I got a ever NCAA Tournament game as said. competed highly on a national level Before her time at Francis Marion, Moore-Powell chance to see the beginning. Texas they defeated MEAC tournament Fired DMU head coach Bacari year in and year out. The champi- spent three years as the head coach at Chattahoochee Southern should have been my first champion North Carolina Cen- Alexander was believed to have a onship and postseason banners that Valley Community College in Phenix City, Ala., where job. tral in the First Four. five-year contract worth $450,000 currently hang in our arena will she was named the 2013-14 ACCC Southern Conference "Me being at Indiana, I got to "I really struggled with the de- per year. He was let go after two only tell part of the story of the out- see the end. We played for a nation- Coach of the Year. She guided Chattahoochee Valley to cision that I had to make because seaons. Davis was reported to be standing legacy he leaves behind. al championship in my second year I fell in love with Houston," Davis making less than $300,000 at TSU. a 2014 ACCC Southern Conference Championship after We wish him and his entire family as a coach. So I got a chance to see said. "I fell in love with my play- Detroit Mercy officials did not re- well in all of their future endeav- a second place finish in 2013 and a third place finish in big-time basketball. I got a chance ers. I fell in love with the city, and veal financial terms of Davis's con- ors." 2012. to see the passion. I got a chance to I told my family three years ago tract but did say it was for "multi- A national search to fill the Additionally, she recruited and guided the devel- see preparation from some of the that I would never leave Houston. ple years." TSU men's basketball head coach opment of 2014 ACCC Southern Conference Player of greatest coaches in college basket- I've had a lot of opportunities to go In the press conference, Davis position will begin immediately the the Year, Braxtyn Talton. ball. So as I worked my way back other places — I never entertained did mention his son Antoine, a statement said. down to Texas Southern, I could them. 6-3 high scoring guard who de-

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