Hampton U. retains Rose as football coach

HAMPTON, Virginia  --  Hampton University will retain head football coach Donovan Rose, athletic director Novelle Dickenson announced Monday.

Rose, who just completed his fourth season as head coach at his alma mater, said that he received a one-year extension.

"I'm humbled that I've been given the opportunity to finish this," Rose said. "We had a lot of young guys and a lot of them got valuable experience. Now we need to point them in the right direction and make sure that we take advantage of the experience and clean up a little bit. We showed signs. We were our own worst enemy at times. We've just got to clean up a little bit and get going in the right direction."

The Pirates finished 3-7 overall, 3-5 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. It was the program's worst record since it became a Division I program in 1995. Hampton is 21-22 in four years under Rose and 16-16 in the MEAC.

Rose has been at Hampton for 23 years, as an assistant under former head coach Joe Taylor and then Jerry Holmes. He was promoted to head coach in early 2009, when Holmes was dismissed after one season.

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