One HBCU who not too long ago misplaced their head males’s basketball coach has discovered a substitute with fairly the monitor report.
1993 Heisman trophy winner Charlie Ward, who performed 11 seasons within the NBA, is predicted to be named head males’s basketball coach at Florida A&M, as reported by HBCU basketball insider Olivia Antilla.
The 5 12 months contract and particulars for Charlie Ward can be introduced in entrance of the FAMU BOT as we speak and most definitely can be authorised.
Ward was a primary spherical draft choose in 1994 and performed for 11 years (Knicks, Spurs, Rockets).
This rent would be the sixteenth FAMU Males’s Basketball Coach.
— Liv (@livforhoops) April 16, 2025
Ward, 54, will substitute Patrick Crarey II, who accepted the Grambling males’s opening after one 12 months in Tallahassee.
Ward performed quarterback throughout city at Florida State, main the Seminoles to the 1993 nationwide championship with an 18-16 upset of Nebraska within the 1994 Orange Bowl.
He was additionally some extent guard on the FSU basketball workforce, the place he nonetheless holds the workforce’s profession steals report (236).
Ward was drafted within the first spherical of the 1994 NBA draft by the New York Knicks and opted for the NBA, changing into the one Heisman winner to play skilled basketball.
Ward helped the Knicks to a shock look within the 1999 NBA finals and over 11 seasons averaged 6 factors and 4 assists per sport for the Knicks, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets.
Ward not too long ago served as the top basketball coach of Florida State College Colleges, the college’s highschool program.
