The North Carolina A&T Aggies (CAA) have fired head coach Vincent Brown after two seasons. Brown went 2-21 overall and winless (0-16) in the CAA.
The Aggies opted not to bring back Sam Washington as head coach after the 2022 season. Washington went 31-15 overall and 19-8 in his four seasons, which included back-to-back MEAC and Celebration Bowl titles in 2018 and 2019. Brown was brought in just as NCAT moved from the Big South to the CAA starting with the 2023 season.
Brown’s first season started 0-3 before a win at Norfolk State to end September but 2023 ended with 7 straight CAA losses. 2024 was more of the same as the Aggies started 1-1 with the win coming against NCAA Division II Winston-Salem State followed by a 42-13 loss at home to Delaware. The next two games were against former MEAC rivals North Carolina Central and South Carolina State but the Aggies were blown out in both games (66-24 to NCCU and 45-25 to SCSU). NCAT lost the next 7 games to end on a 10-game losing streak in which only one game – a 20-17 loss at eventual CAA champion Richmond – was decided by a touchdown or less.
Brown spent 8 years in the NFL with the New England Patriots and became a coach in 2001. He was an assistant with the Dallas Cowboys in 2006, Virginia in 2007, Richmind in 2008 and 2009, and then back at Virginia from 2010 through 2013. From 2014 through 2016, he was an assistant with Connecticut followed by two years at Howard as an assistant head coach, defensive coordinator, and linebackers coach in 2017 and 2018. Brown had the same roles at William & Mary from 2019 through 2022 before being named the NCAT head coach.
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