Baton Rouge, LA - Sometimes, when universities feel an economic crunch, or when they’re in the mood to de-emphasize athletics on campus, they’ll consider a move to drop football. And sometimes, the academic folks win. They drop football.
Jorge Baez and Jamie Payton faced a very different, very rare problem. They arrived at Southern this season after their previous university closed down. Not the football program. The entire school.
In the spring of 2010, Baez was the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Lambuth University, a private NAIA school in Jackson, Tenn., that was founded in 1843. Payton, a graduate of Dutchtown High, was a productive linebacker. Lambuth had been around for more than 150 years, but Baez and others had begun to see signs of trouble. Big signs.
The school was running out of money.
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