TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Here’s what comes with being a football player at Florida A&M: getting booted from the dorms during training camp and sleeping in your car. Bad or uncertain advice from an overwhelmed staff about what classes to sign up for. Monthslong waits for the scholarship check that covers your meals and rent.
And, in an especially dismissive twist, finding that the complimentary ticket allotment was slashed to two from four.
What felt like a shared secret for the Florida A&M football team became an open one when players at one of the nation’s largest and highest-ranked historically Black universities spent more than six hours deliberating whether to get on a plane to North Carolina for their season-opening game after the N.