Meet Coach Rod Broadway

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http://www.ncat.edu/~alumni/newsevents.html

Aggie Football Presents The East State Roll Out

Meet Rod Broadway, Head Football Coach

When: Saturday, July 23, 2011
Where: Hilton Hotel
207 SW Greenville Blvd.
Greenville, NC 27834
Time: 6:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m.

RSVP by: July 8, 2011
Email: Shaun Johnson
336-433-5570


Aggie Football Presents The West State Roll Out

When: July 30, 2011
Where: Hilton Charlotte University Place
8629 J.M. Keynes Drive
Charlotte, NC 28262
Time: 6:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m.

RSVP by: July 15, 2011
Email: Shaun Johnson
336-433-5570

[EL-COTTON]

I am an EAGLE, but i like this move.  This is how you get your program out there.  Great PR move.  Marketing is key to name recognition.

[Jaimac]

Good idea.   

[MACHIAVELLI]

 

[NovaSkegee]

Rod Broadway is the current head football coach at North Carolina A&T State University and former head coach at Grambling State University. On February 2, 2011, Broadway resigned from his position as head coach at Grambling State University, and the following day it was announced that he accepted the position of head coach at North Carolina A&T State University.

Born April 9, 1955 in Oakboro, North Carolina (33 miles east of Charlotte) he is a 1977 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Broadway played on UNC's defensive line from 1974 to 1977. He helped lead UNC to the 1974 Sun Bowl and the 1977 Liberty Bowl. He earned All-ACC honors as a senior in 1977.


Rod Broadway was most recently the 9th head football coach at Division I-AA/FCS Grambling State University.

Before taking over at Grambling, Broadway was as an Assistant Coach at the Division I-A (FBS) level for 23 years.

Broadway coached on both a national championship team at University of Florida in 1996 and on conference championships squads at Duke University in 1989 and University of Florida in 1995, 1996 and 2000.

He began his coaching career as the nose guards coach at East Carolina University (Division I/FBS) from 1979-1980.

Before he joined the University of Florida, Broadway was the defensive line coach at Duke University for 14 years from 1981-1994.

The Peach Bowl was Broadway's 9th bowl game as a coach, including 6 New Year's (Jan. 1 or Jan. 2) games. At University of Florida, he coached in the 1995 national championship game in the Fiesta Bowl vs. Nebraska (Jan. 2, 1996) and the 1996 national championship game in the Sugar Bowl vs. Florida State (Jan. 2, 1997). He also was a member of the 1998 Citrus Bowl champion team that defeated Penn State and the 1999 Orange Bowl champion team that beat Syracuse.

In 3 of Broadway's last 4 seasons at the University of Florida, the Gators rushing defense ranked no lower than ninth in the nation (second in 1997, fourth in 1998 and 9th in 1999).

In 2000 University of North Carolina football Head Coach John Bunting hired former Tar Heel letterwinner Rod Broadway as the defensive line coach.

In 2002 he took over the struggling football program at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a then Division II. Broadway was their 19th head college football coach. The university had gone 2-8 the year before Broadway took over. Broadway would go on to lead the North Carolina Central Eagles to 2 CIAA Conference Championships in 2005 and 2006. During his final 3 seasons at NCCU Broadway had a combined record of 29–4. He closed out his tenure at NCCU with a record of 32–11.

In only his second year at Grambling State, he led the Tigers to a 12–2 record and won the 2008 SWAC Championship.

In 2010 East Carolina University Division I FBS contacted Grambling Athletic Director  J. Lin Dawson to request permission to interview Rod Broadway for its head football coach position.  The position became vacant when Skip Holtz left to become the head coach at the University of South Florida.


In June 2004, Broadway's wife Dianne Broadway died after 14 years of battling scleroderma.

[Bro. Askia Musa Afiba]

Tough year for Rod Broadway?
http://fansnthestands.com/2011/07/09/tough-year-for-rod-broadway/



I met up with new N.C. A&T football coach Rod Broadway at a recent golf reception. The former Grambling and N.C. Central coach said he was “ecstatic” to be back on this side of town, meaning from Louisiana where everybody knows your name and your business – even if it’s lies – to North Carolina where he is closer to his family, especially his 2-year-old grandson. As I was teasing him about meeting his old rivals again in the MEAC – new NCCU coach Henry Frazier and Delaware State coach Kermit Blount – Broadway said he had other serious concerns.
He’s right.

According to him, the Aggies have just 33 scholarships this season. Yep, 33! (A&T has had some NCAA problems.) He had almost that many in his final season at NCCU when it was still in Division II. In case you’re wondering, the maximum for Division I-AA (I don’t have time to use the formal long title) is 63. God forbid if a starter gets hurt. Now I understand why Broadway scheduled St. Paul’s for his season-opener. Of course, the Tigers athletic program is gone, so the Aggies will play Virginia University of Lynchburg, a former member of the CIAA that is re-instituting its football program.

Unfortunately for Broadway, it doesn’t matter how many scholarships he has. Aggies will give him no sympathy if he doesn’t beat up on the Eagles – and win homecoming of course.

“They still expect us to win,” he said. You better believe it.

[Bro. Askia Musa Afiba]

I am an EAGLE, but i like this move. This is how you get your program out there. Great PR move.  Marketing is key to name recognition.

I still wish Coach Broadway and members of his Staff, who are NCCU Eagles Alumni and family, the very Best, in rebuilding Aggie Football. I will be pulling for them to win every game on their schedule each year, EXCEPT AGAINST THE EAGLES OF NC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY !!!

The NCCU Eagles and NCA&T Aggies are North Carolina HBCU Family, except the Days nights and times that the NC Eagles and Aggies play each other in any athletics event or are in direct competition with each other, for anything worth appropriately winning on Earth and the known Universe.

Like it or not, the Better Both NCCU and NCA&T are in EVERYTHING, (especially Athletics & Academics)
the more world exposure via FAN BRAND INTEREST with additional TV interest at the financial gate and money there is to be made, for BOTH schools and the MEAC in general.

Truth be told, BOTH schools should pool some of their marketing advertising resources and reap additional State and National marketing exposure and financial benefits.

Take Care!

[TIGER JOHN]

I am an EAGLE, but i like this move.  This is how you get your program out there.  Great PR move.  Marketing is key to name recognition.

 I think that is great to market your coach and school this way...... I love some HBCU football,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,YES I DO!!,,,,,,,,,,And hate Alabama (UA) to the max...

[DRUMMA1]

Greenville?  Raleigh or Fayetteville would have been a better spot in the East.

Great marketing move by the Aggies. 

[FSUHALL]

All I know is your average alumni does not care who you play only that you win and they care and know nothing about what 33 scholarships mean and no matter if you have 33, 63, or 3 scholarships they still expect wins.

[TIGER JOHN]

 
 




Rod Broadway was most recently the 9th head football coach at Division I-AA/FCS Grambling State University.



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Grambling hasn't had 9 coaches in school history Sir!  ..........................

[Que82]

 




Rod Broadway was most recently the 9th head football coach at Division I-AA/FCS Grambling State University.



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Grambling hasn't had 9 coaches in school history Sir!  ..........................
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That is true they have had 8 different coaches.

[The Sloping Hills and Verdent Green]

Why do you folks at Grambling hate Broadway so much?          You have hated him since the day he was hired at GSU.  The man rebuilt your football program.

[Que82]

Why do you folks at Grambling hate Broadway so much?          You have hated him since the day he was hired at GSU.  The man rebuilt your football program.

Don't quite agree with that statement.   1998 & 2006 were the only losing seasons after Coach Rob left and they won the conference in 2000, 2001, 2002 & 2005. He may have done some painting but he didn't rebuild nothing IMHO.

[Onnidan Webmaster]

I am an EAGLE, but i like this move.  This is how you get your program out there.  Great PR move.  Marketing is key to name recognition.

Alabama State has scheduled a football coaches tour starting July 11.