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• Winston-Salem State Bridges Sports, Academics with Campus Cookout

  JC 12:30 pm on January 22, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Black college marketing guru Robert Constant forwarded me this great article on Winston-Salem State’s Bill Hayes working his magic on campus early into his tenure. And by magic, I mean on the grill.

  Hayes brought the groups together for the inaugural Dr. Reginald Sherard Academic Cookout, a three-hour indoor picnic at the Gaines Center. The purpose of the picnic — named after a former player for Hayes who is now a doctor in Goldsboro — is to foster a better relationship between the groups. Hayes hopes it will become an annual tradition.

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• James Webster, Kermit Blount Resign

  JC 12:11 pm on November 20, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
  Tags: Bill Hayes, James Webster (2), Kermit Blount (2), Tennessee State University (19), Teresa Phillips, Winston-Salem State University (24)

  You’ve got to believe that the resignations of head football coaches James Webster and Kermit Blount have more to do with executive influence than success on the football field.

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• Bill Hayes Named Athletic Director at Winston-Salem State

  JC 7:22 pm on October 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  It took a while, but Bill Hayes has finally made his way back home. Winston-Salem State University Chancellor Donald Reaves today announced to the university trustees and coaches that Hayes would become the university’s athletic director effective January 1.

  His past and his future immediately endear him to Rams alumni and supporters. His record as a football coach at WSSU is without parallel; his success as a black college athletics executive unmatched.

  But will his reintroduction to Ram Land still all of WSSU’s troubled water? There is financial strife and division among the supporters on the botched Division I transition; issues that desperately require immediate attention and even swifter solutions.

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• Bill Hayes Resigns as Florida A&M Athletic Director

  JC 9:03 am on October 3, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Florida A&M athletic director Bill Hayes has resigned his position effective December 31, 2009. The resignation comes just days after whispers began circulating about the pending dismissal of longtime sports information director Alvin Hollins and athletic marketing director Bob McBee.

  I don’t know exactly what’s going on with FAMU sports, but they couldn’t have picked a worse time for the bottom to fall out of a program that, from the outside, appeared to be on the rise. The Rattler football is competing for a MEAC championship and a possible berth in the NCAA FCS playoffs. The basketball team is preparing to open a new gymnasium this fall.

  But there were signs of trouble within the program as early as this summer. The men’s track coach resigned a week after his was hired, Bill Hayes was rumored to return to Winston-Salem State as its new athletic director, and many fans were anxious about Hayes’ true intentions to remain in Tallahassee.

  Now the university is on the search to fill its three most critical elements of executive leadership. Again, we don’t know what happened, but this situation reeks of issues of relationships between President James Ammons and Bill Hayes. Who knows; maybe there were money issues, the debacle of the Walter McCoy hiring and resignation, or Hayes’ public flirtation with Winston-Salem State. According to some sources close to the FAMU athletic department, Hayes’ never had a truly amicable relationship with Dr. Ammons, and that relationship became chillier with the McCoy situation.

  What is clear is that the internal working of Rattler sports have all been removed or are willingly leaving, and they are probably marching out to the tune of the same drummer.

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• FAMU Athletic Director Bill Hayes Applies for Vacant Winston-Salem AD Position

  JC 1:15 pm on September 10, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  The rumors started as whispers just a week ago, and it appears the Bill Hayes-back-to-Winston-Salem State rumors are finding some legitimate ground to walk on.

  Hayes, in his second year as the athletics director at Florida A&M, has sent in an application and is interested in the WSSU vacancy, according to one source in Winston-Salem and one in Tallahassee, Fla. Hayes was traveling to Winston-Salem yesterday for tonight’s football game between A&M and WSSU and did not respond to a message left on his cell phone.

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• Winston-Salem State to Welcome Back Bill Hayes?

  JC 7:23 pm on August 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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  Bill Hayes might be coming back to Winston-Salem State University to fill its vacant athletic director position, according to John Dell’s report with the Winston-Salem Journal.

  Bill Hayes, who led the WSSU football program to its greatest heights in the late 1970s and early 1980s, is being targeted by Chancellor Donald Reaves for the AD’s position, several sources said.

  Reaves was hoping to introduce the new athletics director today at “Meet the Rams,” a fall-sports pep rally at Bowman Gray Stadium scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. However, those plans fell through when Tim Grant took himself out of contention earlier this week.

  Hayes, currently the AD at Florida A&M, said Thursday night that he hasn’t been contacted by WSSU officials.

  It wouldn’t be totally out of the realm of possibility for Hayes to jump back to WSSU from Florida A&M. He would come back to a program with great room to mold public support, a very publicized transition to Division I to captain, and the unshakable support of Ram land.

  For a year and a half, at least.

  On the other hand, things are going pretty good for Bill Hayes in Tallahassee. He makes good money, he went and got Joe Taylor to turn the Rattler football program around, and he has tolerant media coverage that won’t feed into the ramblings Rattler faithful who call for any and every athletic director to be fired. Aside from having to put out another call for a men’s track and field coach, life doesn’t seem too bad for Hayes from the outside looking in.

  But notice, Hayes never said that he wasn’t interested in or would not take the job….Stay tuned.

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