The 2008 season began with great promise for the A&T football team. They put an end to their infamous losing streak by dominating Johnson C. Smith in the opener.

Then, they won a physical hard fought game against our interstate rivals Winston-Salem State. The season appeared to have great promise and there was talk of finishing at or around .500 which would have been considered a great turnaround.

However, the all too familiar feeling has come across the Aggie Nation of loss after loss every Saturday, each loss hurting just a little bit more than the last.

This past weekend was my 17th straight homecoming and it was the worst that I have ever experienced.

It was worse than the 1993 homecoming when our undefeated Aggies took on the undefeated Howard Bison and we lost 41-35 in overtime. Our season went into a downward spiral after that. It was worse than the 1998 homecoming against Bethune-Cookman when we again lost in overtime, costing us a spot in the Heritage Bowl.

This one was worst because the football team did something that I didn’t think was possible– they played uninspired on homecoming, which to me is probably the most disrespectful thing you can do as a football player wearing blue and gold.

Never in my life have I seen a homecoming crowd disappear with the quickness like they did this past Saturday.

It would have been different if we were blowing out Morgan State the way we did Howard in 1999 51-0, but no, we were the ones getting blowing out this day.

However, as uninspiring as the football team’s play was Saturday it all starts at the top and that means the coach.

Lee Fobbs coaching and decision making since he has been at A&T has been questionable.

His choice last week not to go for two against Central already had some people calling for his head.

Even Fobbs admitted to the team they were not well coached, so what does that say about him?

I know that he came with a recommendation from former Grambling State Coach Doug Williams who was the coach that we were really after, but how a man with no head coaching experience gets a one of the best jobs in black college football is really beyond my understanding.

We have some of the best facilities of all the HBCUs and we should not be struggling. It’s amazing to me that when there was hardly any money for the program with no field house, no big screen scoreboard and no lights, we could almost count on winning 7 to 9 games every year.

However, now that money is being put into the program, and we are struggling, does a change to need to be made now or before next season?

I think we need a change if we want to get out of this continuous losing funk that we cannot seem to break.

Some of you might be thinking how would that make anything better?

Things can’t get too much worse. But the only opinion that counts around here is AD Wheeler Brown. I think that its impossible to ignore an empty stadium.

There are a lot of cries of anger from the alumni and supporters of the football team. In my opinion Lee Fobbs’ final straw has been pulled and he is all of out chances. We need to move on.

• Dwight Morris