New coach off to busy start, welcomes 12 recruits to campus
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- A handful of FAMU football players were milling around in the parking lot outside of Bragg Stadium on Friday afternoon. They’d gathered a few minutes earlier so that Earl Holmes could tell them that he’d be their next head coach.
None of them had a wider grin than tight end Michael Morris. “I’m ecstatic,” he yelled to a passerby.
Seemingly so was the overflow crowd that had flocked into a conference room on the top level of the Lawson Center, where Holmes was introduced as successor to Joe Taylor. He retired with a few weeks remaining on his contract.
Holmes promised to turn the program around. Boosters and alumni in the room pledged to support him.
The announcement was two months coming. The wait was becoming a little unbearable to some of the players who took their plea to interim president Larry Robinson while the search was going on to find a coach.
“I was thinking about the future of FAMU, the recruiting process and trying to see how not having a coach would affect our recruiting process,” said safety John Ojo, who will get an extra year to play next season after an injury sidelined him last season. “I was wondering if there was any way to speed the process up.”
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