The guy was one of the top mid-d coaches in the country a couple years ago. Guided Donavan Brazier and Fred Kerley to NCAA records and national titles. Then last year he was abruptly let go by Texas A&M in the middle of the season for reasons that remain unknown. I haven't seen anything written about him and haven't seen him resurface with a new gig.
Anyone have any idea what happened to him? If you'd rather not post publicly, feel free to email me at
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Bump. Anyone?
I think he abused his runners. Is now in Japan, where the runners are tougher.
I thought I read on these boards that he was romantically involved with a student-athlete but I can't back that up
I know for a fact that was not the reason. It was a very minor rules infraction at a&m. One of the best coaches around, was forced to leave.
Please elaborate. What minor rule violation would lead to a coach being fired?
What happened to Ronnie Baker ?
Francique did groom and have sexual relationships with a few of his athletes.
Seems likely. When a well-known coach at a big U disappears inexplicably like this it's almost always for personal conduct violations. Sexual relations/harassment of athletes is a very likely explanation - if it were gambling, or DUI, then we'd know about it and the AD would trumpet the news to virtue-signal how clean they are. They never do this when there are sexual relationships, it's too messy and problematic to air in public, too "damaging to the image" although their calculus on this matter is dumb beyond measure because inevitably their sleazy coverup is exploded and makes it much worse.
We all know Guelph, Arizona, and a ton of other places where this kind of thing has happened recently.
Steve5124 wrote:
I know for a fact that was not the reason. It was a very minor rules infraction at a&m. One of the best coaches around, was forced to leave.
Oof… doesn’t seem minor if the allegations are true
cisabm wrote:
this has surfaced
you almost never want to trust what erin says but francique’s situation has been an open secret in the higher levels of the sport for the past few years at least.
no clue how he got a pro group together. last time i checked he coaches boling, patterson, and hayes
he coached charokee young for a while too. wonder if that’s the reason why she left the sport.
He would boost his credibility if he were to just tell the full story rather than dropping vague hints on Twitter and then get mad when no one else is reporting on it. If you have the information and the platform then YOU do it.
It’s no secret than Alleyne and Milton Mallard are both great coaches but terrible people
What did Milton do? And is he the guy at ASU?
He was he even got a student athlete GLORILISHA CARTER pregnant while at A&M in 2019 this could be the reason they let him go. I saw Erin post about this and the baby looks just like him
Suspended by SafeSport. That didn't take long. ;)
Anyone know if it's for something from 9+ years ago or something more recent?
Explain wrote:
Please elaborate. What minor rule violation would lead to a coach being fired?
Raping the athletes?
rojo wrote:
Anyone know if it's for something from 9+ years ago or something more recent?
There is no way to know for sure, unless people directly involved decide to make a public comment. Sometimes people make a public allegation but then don’t cooperate with the US Center for SafeSport, and much more commonly people cooperate with the US Center for SafeSport without making a public statement.
In this case, one or more victims had to be cooperating with the Center because there are no criminal charges here.
Coaches can get banned for sexually assaulting an athlete a decade or more prior. As they should.
The Center only had jurisdiction because he was also an elite coach who joined USA Track & Field. If a college coach doesn’t join USATF, the Center doesn’t have jurisdiction over them.
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