Winston-Salem State University Chancellor Donald Reaves fires athletics director Chico Caldwell.

Note that one of the rumored candidates to replace Caldwell is former N.C. A&T athletics director Dee Todd, who was reassigned in 2007 after the Aggies’ second straight winless football season. Note also that Todd would be walking into the situation A&T was in a few years ago — albeit before Todd took over —- a program tryng to figure out if it can afford to be a Division I school:

On Friday, the board of governors of the University of North Carolina system will vote on WSSU’s request to increase student athletics fees. That vote could determine whether WSSU continues to Division I or returns to Division II and the CIAA.

Caldwell has stayed behind the move to Division I since it was announced in December 2004, but it hasn’t been easy. According to the school’s budget, the athletics department will most likely be short about $1.5 million at the end of this academic year. That’s one reason Reaves requested the fee increase.

WSSU’s move also has been slowed by an NCAA sanction for underfunding scholarships in women’s tennis, adding a year to the transition and pushing the completed move from 2010 to 2011.

Looks a little Title IX action there.