Thursday, April 10, 2014

Murraine column: FAMU's Winslow 'on the right team'

TALLAHASSEE, Florida  -- Kellen Winslow Sr., said all the things that a new athletic director is supposed to say when he met the public for the first time.

Of course, he talked about making student-athletes his priority and graduating them on time. Many of them were there Wednesday afternoon in the Lawson Center, where Winslow outlined some basic points of his plan to begin turning around the athletic department at Florida A&M.

Then, he got to the heart of the matter – he is here to fix an athletic department that has been stagnated for more than a decade.

He knows what’s at the root of the problems. There is plenty of divisions among alums, a situation that clearly is high on his to-do list.

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