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Less than two years after his arrival, Lee Hull is out as Delaware State University football coach.
DSU announced Tuesday it was parting ways with Hull, whose two-year stint yielded just two wins and, it turns out, little optimism about the immediate future.
Alecia Shields-Gadson, DSU’s athletic director since 2021, is also leaving “to pursue new opportunities,” according to the university. She has worked in DSU athletics since 2016, previously as a senior associate AD.
She’ll be replaced by Tony Tucker, a long-time educator who has been working at Delaware State as a senior associate vice president overseeing athletics since 2023.
Tucker sparked Wilmington High to the state basketball title and was Delaware Player of the Year in 1983, then starred at the University of Delaware after transferring from Rhode Island.
Delaware State has gone 2-21 overall and 0-10 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in football under Hull. The Hornets lost their five MEAC games this fall by an average score of 46-18. Only one DelState player, running back Jaden Sutton, made the All-MEAC first or second team.
The only victories were 48-0 last year over Virginia University of Lynchburg, a National Christian College Athletic Association school, and this season 17-15 over Sacred Heart, a fellow NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision outfit.
Delaware State has now endured 12 straight-losing football seasons and hasn’t won the MEAC since 2007.
The Hornets had gone 5-6 in 2021 and 2022, which seemed to indicate progress under coach Rod Milstead, the former DSU All-American offensive lineman who won a Super Bowl with the San Francisco 49ers. But he was dismissed after five seasons in charge, having gone 17-33 overall and 7-18 in the MEAC.
Hull was then hired in December of 2022, as Delaware State was enamored with his previous success as head coach at MEAC rival Morgan State. The Bears were 12-12 in his two seasons, winning a share of the MEAC title and making the NCAA playoffs his first season in 2014, when he was MEAC coach of the year.
Hull left for a brief NFL stint before returning to college football and had been offensive coordinator at MEAC rival Howard before moving to DSU, where he couldn’t repeat his Morgan State success.
Now Hull, 58, is out with Delaware State, again, searching for someone to resurrect its faded football fortunes.
His departure comes before the first day high school Class of 2025 graduates can sign to accept scholarships for next year. Adding to the challenge is that Delaware State opens the 2025 season at FBS-bound Delaware, which it has never beaten in 11 tries.
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Date Posted: Saturday, June 20th, 2026
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The Delaware history column features excerpts from The News Journal archives including The Morning News and The Evening Journal. See the archives at delawareonline.com.
100 years ago, The Evening Journal, June 21, 1926
Jealous man kills woman, wounds boy
Oliver K. Higgins, aged 33 years, of Washington Street, in a fit of jealousy late Saturday night, is alleged to have pumped seven bullets from an automatic revolver into Mrs. Edna M. Martin, 40 years old, of Spruce Street, killing her.
Charles Brown, the 15-year-old of Mrs. Gladys Brown, was shot in the jaw and shoulder by Higgins but will recover. Mrs. Brown, also of the Spruce Street address, is the sister of the slain woman. …
Mrs. Martin, who was employed by the Home Baking Company on Market Street, left the store at a late hour Saturday night, accompanied by Paul A. Crawford of Marshallton and went home. They found Mrs. Brown sitting in the dining room with Julius K. Bowman of Newport.
The women and men sat around the table for a short time. At 11:45 o’clock, hearing someone taking out a window screen in the parlor, Mrs. Brown went to the hall to see what caused the noise.
She saw Higgins step in the window with a gun in his hand. She opened the door and ran off the porch.
Higgins failed to see Mrs. Brown and continued to the dining room where Mrs. Martin and the two men were sitting. He leveled the revolver at their heads and said, “Stick your hands up everybody, and I don’t mean maybe.”
Higgins then asked for Mrs. Brown. Learning she had gone out the front door, he ran after her, passing her as she crouched behind a hedge a few feet from the doorway. He returned to the dining room, but the men had fled. He then turned to Mrs. Martin and fired as she ran. …
Leaving the dead woman at the head of the steps, Higgins rushed in the back room in search of Mrs. Brown. Charles Brown, who had been sleeping, awoke because of the noise. …
Hearing the boy going down the stairs, Higgins stepped to the stair rail and shot him twice. …
Mrs. Brown went to the drug store of Otto H. Miller at 22nd and Pine streets to telephone police. …
Officers surrounded the Brown house … and arrested Higgins. …
Higgins met Mrs. Brown several months ago when he was in the employ of the United Cigar Store, and Mrs. Brown was working nearby. He is said to have become jealous over the attention of other men to Mrs. Brown, who is divorced. She asked him to stop annoying her and appealed to police.
After Higgins threatened Mrs. Brown with a gun, she told her employer who called the United Cigar Company and made a complaint to the manager. Shortly after this, Higgins was discharged.
50 years ago, The Morning News, June 23, 1976
Bill would jail parents of delinquent kids
A tough measure that provides for jailing the parents of delinquent children or requiring them to spend weekends with delinquents at juvenile detention centers has been introduced in the Delaware Senate.
The bill is the brainchild of the community-based services staff of the juvenile corrections bureau.
“This gives a way to coax them (the parents),” said John J. Mulvena, juvenile corrections chief. “If not to coax them, to require them. If not require them, jail them.”
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Herman Holloway Sr., D-Wilmington.
Mulvena said it is “directed at parents who are reluctant to participate in the responsible supervision of their children.”
He said due to “stubbornness, ignorance or neglect,” his staff often ends up acting as “mother, father, aunt, uncle or surrogate” for children “while the parents get off scot-free.”
20 years ago, The News Journal, June 26, 2006
Storms wallop Sussex with 6-8 inches of rain
Jack English knew he was in trouble early Sunday morning.
He kept waking up to the sound of his Seaford basement sump pump trying to keep up with the downpour outside….
At first, he found a few inches of water on his basement floor. Then, all of a sudden, his backyard was completely flooded and the rising water blew out his basement window. …
“I was evacuated by the fire department,” he said. …
In six to eight hours, 7 inches fell in Bridgeville, more than 8 inches in Georgetown and nearly 6 inches in Laurel….
The Seaford Fire Company had its first sign of trouble at 7:30 a.m., when a crew responded to a person trapped in a car by rising water. As the morning went on, rescue crews turned to boats.
An estimated 300 people were evacuated from homes at three mobile home parks southeast of Blades.
Meanwhile, in Seaford, concern grew as water levels rose in the Nanticoke River and Williams Pond. As a precaution, 110 residents of Lifecare at Lofland Park rehabilitation center were evacuated to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. …
At the Seaford Walmart, a team of swift water rescuers from Salisbury, Maryland helped people trapped in the parking lot, with water up to the top of some cars. …
Bridges at Craigs Mill Road and Woodland Road washed out. …
The American Red Cross opened a shelter at Woodbridge High School in Bridgeville. About 30 people were staying there Sunday night.
Reach reporter Ben Mace at rmace@gannett.com.
DELAWARE COUNTY, Ind. — All lanes closed on I-69 in the southbound direction in Delaware County on Friday morning.
Authorities with the Indiana State Police were dispatched to the 240.5 mile marker on a report of a crash involving a semi at approximately 8:08 a.m.
All lanes are now open.
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