Prairie View baseball coach going to TSU

Michael Robertson resigned Monday as Prairie View A&M baseball coach after six seasons, saying he has accepted an offer for the same position at Texas Southern.

Robertson said TSU athletic director Charles McClelland, who served as Prairie View's AD from 2001-08, offered him the job Wednesday. A person familiar with the situation said that Candy Robinson, who just completed his 19th season as TSU's coach, would be promoted to director of baseball operations.

Robertson, who went 163-171 with the Panthers and led them to back-to-back Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament championships in 2006-07, said...

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TSU Athletic Director: The new guy on the team

Suit jacket flapping behind him, Charles McClelland swooped into the basketball arena at Texas Southern University, a dapper presence in a world of tank tops and gym shorts. The coaches snapped to attention, but McClelland focused on two familiar players hot-dogging on the floor.

"Daddy, daddy," one called to McClelland. "I want to do a jump shot." Seven-year-olds, it turns out, aren't quite ready for jump shots. But sometimes you have to take a risk, as McClelland demonstrated when he became TSU's new athletic director last month.

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TSU Takes Significant Steps in Dynamo Stadium Effort

Photo: TSU athletic director, Charles McClelland.

HOUSTON -- Texas Southern University Athletics Director Charles McClelland believes his school has taken "significant" steps this week toward becoming a part of the project to build a downtown soccer stadium for the Houston Dynamo.

TSU's interest is a new home for its athletics department, specifically football. To that end McClelland told FOX 26 Sports he met Thursday with Dynamo team President Oliver Luck. This session comes after McClelland met Monday with the city's lead negotiator on the project, Andy Icken, Deputy Director of Public works for the City of Houston.

"Charles and I had a productive meeting and he clearly sees the vision for returning to TSU football to a position of prominence in the SWAC and that involves using the proposed new stadium for its home games," Luck said in an interview with FOX 26.

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TSU still has issues with NCAA

Tony Harvey is hoping the day will come when stories about him do not include the words "NCAA investigation." That day isn't today.

Texas Southern University did what should be the best thing the university has done with its athletic department in many years Thursday, when it announced it has lured athletic director Charles McClelland away from Prairie View A&M.

Many believe that last week the university did the worst thing it has done with its athletic department in many years when it announced it had hired Harvey as the men's basketball coach. Considering the school's lengthy and well-chronicled list of ill-advised moves, that says something.

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PVAMU McClelland to Take Over TSU Athletics Program

Photo: TSU new athletic director, Charles McClelland.

HOUSTON -- Texas Southern University will name Prairie View A and M athletics director Charles McClelland as TSU's new athletics director at a news conference Thursday.

"I am excited about accepting the athletics director's job at Texas Southern but I am not going to make any further comment until the news conference tomorrow," McClelland said in an interview with FOX 26 Sports.

Texas Southern had been searching for a new A.D. since firing Alois Blackwell in February. Prairie View A and M President George Wright told FOX 26 McClelland officially resigned from the school Wednesday morning.


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