HU's Rose works toward next season, awaits sit-down with A.D.

HAMPTON, Virginia  --  Donovan Rose walked off the field at Morgan State last Saturday a winner for just the third time all season, a small consolation in as frustrating a year as he has experienced in football.

Yet when Hampton University's head coach reflected on the 2012 season, the message to his players came from one week earlier, after the Pirates lost yet another close game in which they contributed to their own downfall — at Delaware State.

"I told them: Remember this feeling, so you do what's necessary never to feel it again," Rose said. "When we do what we're supposed to do and play the type of football that you're coached and deliver, it's all going to take care of itself.

Hampton U. (3-7) concluded its worst season since going 2-9 in 1991, the final year of the Fred Freeman Era and when the athletic program was firmly planted in Division II and the CIAA.

The season figured to be a huge ...

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