TALLAHASSEE Fla.
Rubin Carter has at least one big fan in Tallahassee, someone who believes that he’s the right man to lead Florida A&M back to prominence.
“Give Rubin Carter another two or three years and FAMU will be a small college powerhouse.”
Those words came from Bobby Bowden, the coach at Florida State the ‘other’ school in Florida’s capital city.
These are tough times for Florida A&M, a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference school that’s trying to fend off financial peril. Plus, the school has reeled from the decision to jump up to Division I-A, a move that came largely to try and compete with Florida State one of the nation’s most successful big-time college sports programs that is based just blocks away.
“The effort to go I-A was almost catastrophic,” said Eddie Jackson, a retired FAMU vice president who has closely followed the school’s sports programs for more than 40 years.
Getting FAMU back on track is a giant challenge, yet it’s one that Carter relishes.
