He says he didn’t do it for the money. That point may be moot, anyway, since Grambling — the Louisiana-based HBCU that fired Melvin Spears as head football coach after the 2006 season — says it’s going to appeal a dramatic half-million dollar judgment handed down last week in his wrongful termination suit. No, Spears [...]
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NFL’s labor strife hits home with undrafted HBCU players
For all of the excitement of the ongoing NFL Draft, this year’s aftermath promises to be a quiet one. One of the side effects of the NFL’s on-going labor strike is this: Without a collective bargained agreement, undrafted players cannot be signed. If and until that’s resolved — or until the league receives a court [...]
This time, rebuilding at Grambling isn’t quite as tall a task for Doug Williams
Doug Williams sees an offense that needs rebuilding, but a program in far better shape than the first time he returned to Grambling. Back then, Williams stepped in for his mentor Eddie Robinson, finding a badly eroded talent base and neglected facilities. The team, in 1998, was still dressing in the same room he’d used [...]
As Grambling prepares to begin spring football, quarterback questions loom
Doug Williams came back to Grambling, in part, for the opportunity to coach his son, an emerging talent at quarterback. But that doesn’t mean young D.J. Williams will be handed the job when Grambling begins spring practices on Monday, March 14. “He’s going to be treated like anybody else,” the elder Williams said. “You’ve got [...]
Grambling’s Doug Williams on Christian Anthony: Not sure we could’ve cleared him to play
Christian Anthony, the former SWAC defensive player of the year, was already gone when Doug Williams arrived at Grambling — signed with an agent and working out in Florida with a pro trainer. But Williams says he wasn’t sure if the Tigers’ do-everything defender — felled before last football season with chest ailment — would [...]
Gamesmanship is already underway between Grambling, Alcorn State
Grambling doesn’t play Alcorn on the gridiron until the opening weekend of next season, as part of the Labor Day weekend Port City Classic in Shreveport, La. But, make no mistake, the gamesmanship has already begun. Newly hired Grambling coach Doug Williams — in his second stint overseeing the program — has lured away newly [...]
Complete black college polls: Three new rankings, three top teams
While several of the major pollsters have completed their rankings for the 2010 season, a trio of black college polls continue — with three separate top finishers. Bethune-Cookman took over the No. 1 spot in the Boxtorow.com/BASN media and coaches polls, following South Carolina State’s loss to Georgia Southern in the championship subdivision playoffs. Albany [...]
Southwestern Athletic Conference announces 2010 Hall of Fame class
The Southwestern Athletic Conference has announced its 2010 Hall of Fame inductees. The class includes six honorees affiliated with five of the league’s 10 member institutions: Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd (Jackson State, baseball), Clyde Duncan (Texas Southern, track and field), Charlie Granger (Southern, football / track and field), Aaron James (Grambling, basketball), Willie “Rat” McGowan [...]
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