Howard Hires UAPB ADHoward has hired Louis "Skip" Perkins Jr. to be its athletic dire

[TexasTerror]

News out of D.C. that Howard has hired UAPB's athletic director...


Howard has hired Louis "Skip" Perkins Jr. to be its athletic director, according to a source with knowledge of the hiring. Perkins, who will replace interim athletic director Charles Gibbs, comes to Howard from Arkansas-Pine Bluff, where he has been the athletic director since 2007. Perkins could not be reached for comment. Howard University media relations manager Kerry-Ann Hamilton declined comment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101907077_2.html

[DFW HOYA]

Howard needs some leadership right now. Just last week, it announced it was renting RFK Stadium next year for a game with Division II Morehouse College.

[WestCoastAggie]

Howard needs some leadership right now. Just last week, it announced it was renting RFK Stadium next year for a game with Division II Morehouse College.

Morehouse vs. Howard is a game that MANY alums from those schools wanted. This game is the first in a new annual Classic in DC.

[DFW HOYA]

Morehouse vs. Howard is a game that MANY alums from those schools wanted. This game is the first in a new annual Classic in DC.

Judging by the attendance last year, Georgetown vs. Howard was a game that MANY Howard alumni did not want. There might have been less than 100 Howard fans there, and they didn't even send the band. The schools are less than four miles apart.

[Sonic98]

Judging by the attendance last year, Georgetown vs. Howard was a game that MANY Howard alumni did not want. There might have been less than 100 Howard fans there, and they didn't even send the band. The schools are less than four miles apart.

Yeah that's really a shame. People need to start learning to go to games other than rivalry games, classics, and homecoming games. Football-wise you might witeness a really good game even against a team you don't know much about. But that's too close for people not to be coming. You would never have a game between JSU and USM or if we had another FCS team in MS and people barely show up.

[WestCoastAggie]

Judging by the attendance last year, Georgetown vs. Howard was a game that MANY Howard alumni did not want. There might have been less than 100 Howard fans there, and they didn't even send the band. The schools are less than four miles apart.

What you are describing is a pretty interesting situation regarding HBCU's and PWC's. Many fans of various BCF teams are not interested in seeing their HBCU play a FCS PWC and vice versa. It's especially difficult to get FCS PWC's to travel to BCF home sites. For many reasons not just alluding to assumptions of the lack of safety, anxieties regarding being around many black people, the lack of HBCU's fielding a quality team in time for this game, just a general disinterest into attending the game or to a lesser extent, racism or prejudices of black people.

But many HBCU fans just aren't interested in these games either. If it's not a familar HBCU rival, a school with a bangin band like FAMU's 100 or the home team is having a season like BCU, many fair weather, apathetic fans of HBCU's will not show up especially in this current economy.

[DFW HOYA]

What you are describing is a pretty interesting situation regarding HBCU's and PWC's. Many fans of various BCF teams are not interested in seeing their HBCU play a FCS PWC and vice versa. It's especially difficult to get FCS PWC's to travel to BCF home sites. For many reasons not just alluding to assumptions of the lack of safety, anxieties regarding being around many black people, the lack of HBCU's fielding a quality team in time for this game, just a general disinterest into attending the game or to a lesser extent, racism or prejudices of black people.

The two schools are not only four miles apart, but even share a bus line in Washington--the G2 runs every 20 minutes directly between Georgetown and Howard. The first game at Howard drew 6,085 (this despite a tropical storm which passed through the area in 2008). I suspect Howard drew a lot of grief from its HBCU brethren for losing to a supposed inferior team in Georgetown (Hoyas, 12-7) and made no effort to promote the following year's game at Georgetown, which only drew 2,630 and which saw Howard win, 14-11. Howard's acting AD, Charles Gibbs, ended the four year series two years early.

As a result, the closest opponent on Georgetown's 2010 schedule is now Lewisburg, PA (183 miles).