UNC-Pembroke restarting football program

[Coastal89]

PEMBROKE, N.C. - The field where North Carolina-Pembroke's football team last played five decades ago is gone, overlaid by progress at a growing school first founded to educate American Indian teachers.

The school thinks it's time to bring the sport back.

The Division II school - with help from Oklahoma men's basketball coach and UNC-P alumnus Kelvin Sampson and former NFL player Dwight Clark - has begun work to restart the program after a 54-year hiatus. UNC-Pembroke is raising money to build new facilities and has started searching for a coach to lead the Braves back onto the field in 2007.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/sports/12720646.htm

[Marcus Garvey]

That's good to hear. It sounds like they're approaching it from a realistic standpoint.

Incidently, when Arizona's head basketball coach Lute Olsen decides to retire, Kelvin Sampson will be the first guy asked to replace him. Just about everybody's money in Tucson is on that horse.

[DotCat]

One can keep up-to-date on the ongoing football process at UNCP at the following link.

http://www.uncp.edu/athletics/football/