JCSU's Aycock selected to participate in NCAA Forum
JCSU's Aycock selected to participate in NCAA
Forum
May 25, 2011
Charlotte, NC – Johnson C. Smith University head football
coach Steven Aycock has been selected to participate in the 2011
NCAA Expert Forum to be held June 16 and 18 in conjunction with the
National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA)
Convention at the World Marriott in Orlando, Florida.
The NCAA has invited Division I & II coaches to its 2011 NCAA
Expert Forum, in an effort to assist the coaches with career
advancement, networking and exposure opportunities at NCAA colleges
and universities. 
The Expert Forum is an NCAA program that addresses the critical
shortage of ethnic minorities in head coaching positions in the
sport of college football, primarily at the Division I level.
The NCAA hosts its program on the heels of a rise in the number of
minority head football coaches following the 2010 season. However,
out of a total of 582 football programs in Division I, II and III,
only 5.7 percent employ head football coaches of color, excluding
the historically black colleges and universities.
Though the NCAA does not have hiring authority over its member
colleges and universities, the national office, through Diversity
and Inclusion, is able to provide programming that better prepares
coaches for many of the issues they will experience at the head
coaching level. The coaches who participate in the Expert Forum
have expressed an interest in being a head coach at an NCAA college
or university within their current division or in another NCAA
division. Diversity and Inclusion provides the coaches with program
sessions and networking opportunities with current head coaches and
athletic administrators who have hiring responsibilities or
influence. The focus of the program centers on ethnic minority
football coaches, however, football coaches of other ethnicities
have also been invited to participate.
Expert Forum programming covers the following areas:
• Communications - media, booster relations, interviewing
skills, and building a portfolio.
• Fiscal Responsibilities - fundraising, budgeting and
development
• Building a Successful Program - managing coaching staffs,
building a portfolio (game strategy), maintaining relationships
with university/college presidents, athletic directors, alumni,
student-athletes, faculty and members of the community
• Compliance Considerations - gambling issues, NCAA rules and
regulations/infractions, agents, choices/consequences, and
integrity
• Academic Issues - academic support, academic fraud,
retention, NCAA rules and regulations, academic success
