WSSU ousts football assistant Calcutta

Caldwell cites the need to avoid distractions

Nicholas "Nick" Calcutta, the offensive coordinator at Winston-Salem State, has been fired. Calcutta had been suspended last week by Chico Caldwell, the school's athletics director, for using a racial epithet in a team meeting, according to several sources. Caldwell and Coach Kermit Blount wound not reveal the reasons for Calcutta's dismissal. "In the best interest of the football program, the team, the athletics department and the university mutual separation was the right thing to do," Caldwell said in a statement.

When reached by telephone, Caldwell later said that Calcutta wasn't fired, only that "he was no longer the offensive coordinator." Calcutta, 50, has been an assistant coach at several schools for the last 18 years, with most of those stops being at historically black universities. Among the schools at which Calcutta spent time were Howard, S.C. State, Savannah State, Delaware State and Tennessee State. Calcutta was in his second year as offensive coordinator at WSSU.

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