November 26, 2025 • 33 mins
TODAY’S EPISODE IS A SPECIAL REFLECTION WITH COACH NORTHERN as we look back on the 2025 Prairie View A&M football campaign and discuss the challenges faced by his alma mater, the Southern Jags. We also turn our focus to the road ahead — the SWAC Championship showdown between Jackson State and Prairie View on December 6th.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And welcome back to another episode. Here of after further review,
we are joined by none other than our football guru expert,
the Man of the I'm gonna have to say, other
season coach coach Heights Northern coach. How you doing today, sir?
(00:24):
You know, let's see. I okay, we got to I
had to just a slight stall at the gate. How
we gonna start that again? How you feeling, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Man, I'm doing pretty good. Look, I ain't got wangled.
Then to going to the body ty actually going to
the game. Normally I don't go to it. I usually
actually come back to the Houston area and go hunting
and fishing somewhere while my wife and kids go to
the game because for a while, you know, I couldn't
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go to it because I was coaching in the conference.
And then the other thing I just thought of, I
don't like sitting in the stands here and people complain
about coaches and players, and it's hard for me to
do in a dome situation where I just really can't
get away from people. So I just thought that I
would come home and do my Black Fridy shopping or
go go in the woods and go fishing. So this year,
(01:17):
I'm actually going to a bond that's given by Southern
Universe because of some of the contributions that my wife
and I have made. And I'm going to the game.
I don't know where I be, but I'll be somewhere
in the dome. So we'll see how it's all gonna
work out.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Right now, I know it's a unique time at jack Nation,
and to be quite honest with you, an uncomfortable time,
not accustomed to being with the history that you have
when as they say, the rabbit has the gun coach.
What has the experience been like for you as a supporter,
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as a fan, and even as an alumnust former player.
How are you, I guess, embracing these times.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, you know, I look at it the same way
all the time. Number one gets a RIVALIY game. And
if you go back and you ask a lot of people, man,
it's some bad Southern teams that have beaten some real
good Grammar teams in abouy your classes. So there's something
that you know, a lot of Jaguars hold in the
(02:28):
in the back pocket. As they said, my father in law,
who's fins passed away and played football at Grammar and
That's one of the things that he always thought about
was he can remember like a nine and one, a
nine and two Grammar team losing two, a three and seven,
you know, four and five, you know whatever, the record
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bad Southern team for see. So we're gonna hold on
to that this year. And uh, you know, I've been
messing with my sister who's a Grammlin alum that may
and we gonna find a way to win that game.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That's the hope that I hold all the time because
you know it's gonna be a good and then for
me and the coach at Grammar for nine years. I
tell people this and they think I'm crazy. If I
could live anywhere that I've ever lived in my life,
including Atlanta, Baton Rouge and currently in cyprotextas I go
back to Gramlin yesterday, I mean, I just love living
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up there.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I had a.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
House that I could hunt and fish in my backyard.
Football is near and dear to those people. It wasn't
a lot of crime and all that type of stuff.
You know, it was right up Miami. So I really
liked that place. I was living there when I got married,
and you know, all that type of stuff. Goes into
being at Graham But you know, and I'm gonna see
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some of my former players and all that type of stuff.
So I'm looking forward to the game of more than
just being in New Orleans, I should say, almost than
the game itself.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Okay, okay, And this shall be a well deserve get away.
You know, sometime when you're in the middle of everything,
you don't get a chance to embrace the moment as
you really could as a fan if you mean to
use those air quotes, And it's a different perspective for
different feel or different connect that's involved with it. Do
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you find yourself in strange places now?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And sometimes so? And we're gonna talk about a couple
of my most memory experiences. But to be honest with you,
we grew up Grandlar Fans because my mother and father,
oh went to school at Grantland. Now my mother, if
you were to ask her, she would tell you she
went to school at Grantland, but she graduated from Southern
and got a master from there. I had some uncles.
(04:47):
One of my uncles is still one of the all
time leading Russians in the history of Grandma State University.
His cousin was one of the starting de visit backs
at Grantland at the same time. And they from a
very small I mean a town small and wilerd you know,
Praier View, a single a school in Louisiana. So for
those guys to go from Chady Grove or Rosedale, Go
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State Louisiana to starting at Grammlin, that was big. And
I could tell you this. They say it was two
big things that happened in that small town. One they
had the very first brick house that was built and
people were coming to watch it get built like it
was the Governor's mentioned. And Two, when Eddi Robinson came
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to recruit those guys to come to Gramlin, you would
have thought that the President of the United States came
to I mean they were lying down the street like
it was the parade come in to town, just to
see Eddie Robinson shake his hand, you know, like pat
him on the shoulder and all that type of stuff.
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And he came to recruit those guys. So my time
to Gramlin goes way back. But you know, I just
so happen to go to something. So I say, I
look forward to all the different dynamics of the game,
but I do not feel I'm gonna say funny. At
first I did, but now it's just that is a
big part of my life and where I am not
(06:14):
both plays, Yes, sir, Yes, So we're talking on Coach
heightst Northern our play by play.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I mean, this man is swacked bound. You know, we
know Dion made it famous that I am swacked. But
Coach I can say without hesitation that you're definitely swacked
from your connections in and about and we normally we
got a week, if you will, to talk about and
focus on ProView. But because this is a special week
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traditionally with Gramblin and Southern, you got the Turkey Day
Bowl with Alabama State and Tuskegee, and we got another
game thrown in the mix, which is almost a question
of why they've fallen through with it. But you got
to play the games and sendis them out between Valley
and Fam. You the traditional games to buy you classic,
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the Turkey Bowl, Classic, the Turkey Class. You can see
even with a rough season that technically gramming the Southern's experience,
you still got this bowl, the Louisiana Bowl. If you
would that you got some ragging rights at least to
carry you through the off season. How do you motivate
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your guys if you're at FAM You or if you're
at Mississippi State, I mean Mississippi Valley and when you
when you and there's no knock on it, but let's
be honest, this is definitely a down year for uh
FAM You and it's a challenging a regular Oh this
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is what we do at Valley? How do you coach
do that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The biggest thing is, you know, and we struggle some
years when I was at prayer of you. If you
think about you know, a couple of years where we
had the APR penaties or you know, just the normal
rigors of college football where you might not be where
you want to be. And you just tell a guy, look, man,
you don't know if this's gonna be your last chance
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to play college football. You know, some guys may say, well,
I'm not doing good here, I didn't play well. I'm
gonna end of the porter. You're not even guaranteed a
shot at landingsonwhere if you enter the porter. So your
big my biggest selling point to guys would be is
a football game. You chose to play it, Let's play it,
let's win. And if I'm whoever the role team, and
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hey man, let's make this bus ride back home a
good bus ride. Or let's if you thinking about in
a transfer portal, let's put something good on film. Uh,
if you're thinking about coming back, let's send us into
the off season on a high note. And now your
your screen workout may be a little bit better, or
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your your workouts, your condition, your past scaling, all that
type of stuff will be a little bit better during
the offseason as you approach it getting ready for spring football.
If you win that last game, because I can tell
you what I remember. I think one year we lost
the pine Gloffs, and I want to say the year
that they won the championship, but we the on the
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one yard line and from of the football going into
the end zone, and it was one of those well
I had players apologizing to me, you know for some
of the things that happened after the night before. Guys
may have kept their fone where they normally turn it in,
or guys may have stayed up a little bit late,
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you know. So it's different things like that that you
take into it, and you know you'll have guy to say, well, coach,
that won't happen again and hopefully you learn from it.
But the biggest thing is is a game you chose
to play, man, you might as well playing to your foot.
You don't know if that's gonna be the last time
you put the shoulder pass on. If you're a younger guy,
and if you're an older guy, that's gonna be your
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Lands game. If you're a senior, then you can say, man,
I won my Lands game. And like I said, I
can gively remember my Lands game. As a football player
at Southern, we played in a back then they called
it the Iriagage Bowl against Lord A and m I
can almost go down the line and tell you my
stats and some of the players that won the game
for us. So it's a it's gonna be a member
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occasion for some of those guys.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yes, sir, no doubt about it. Again, we're talking with
Coach Heights Northern in this special Thanksgiving recollection series. Now, Coach,
I gave you an assignment last week and we wanted
to go some of your top ten memorable moments being
involved with this Bayu classic, whether it's the being a coach,
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a player, a fan, supporter and and uh, we're gonna
go if you can from ten up to one, and
I'm a step back man, and let you start your countdown,
all right.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So i'ma I'm gonna I didn't put them in quite
the number.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
One order, but it's uh.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I put it almost in the pole logical order more
than number one.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So okay.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
One game, one game in particular that I'll talk about
is the Grambling and my father in law, like you said,
he was a grammliner, a big gramblin a long and
one year and you'll probably see it if you if
anybody's watching the game, they'll show Grambling band in the
touxedos instead of their normal outfits. Now, my father in law,
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like said, had something to do with getting the touxedos
for the for the band. So that's one one of
the all time that a lot of people will remember.
I think I may have been in the nine to
ten year old reigns and my uncle was on the
coaching staff at Southern, So that's one of those memorable moments,
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like I said, within the game, but it was something
that a lot of people will remember. Then I'm gonna
move to one year when I was coaching at Grammar.
One of our better players and I learned a great
lessons from this. We wouldn't meet as an offensive unit
when I was at Gramler at six or six thirty
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in the morning. So one of my players, I'm not
gonna say his name, he played wide receiver for us,
and he was one of the smartest players on the team,
and he was sleeping a meeting and I saw the
let him, I'm gonna say sleep or not off for
because he never really made any minimal mistake. So we
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get to a situation in the game where we called
the player when we sort of save this play because
we knew the exact blitz that Southern was gonna run,
and normally when Southern blitz off the side that he
was on, he was supposed to run a flat route. Well,
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we call the play. He runs the flat instead of
running his supposed to be an inside route, and he
takes his guy to the running back, who we know
is gonna be covered by the free safe. There's no
way this free safety can cover him unless somebody makes
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a mistaken long behold that young man ran the wrong route.
They tackle us for right at the line of scrimmage.
And I learned from then sort of don't take anything
for granted as a coach, even if it's one of
your better players, because any sort of slip up will
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cause a problem for you down the line. So I
learned that, and then that's what made me as a coach.
I started making guys. If I could tell a kid
was sleepy your side, I would make them stand up
in the back of the meeting room. Or I would actually,
especially when I was coaching at Prayer View, I would
give my defensive players permission. So if a guy was
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sleeping next to you, and if you could get my
attention without waking the guy up, you could slap him
on the back of the neck. And if you got
slapped on the back of the neck for being asleep,
the room was you could not hit anybody back. So
that was where I got there from just the And
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if you ask some of those guys that played defense
for me, they'll tell you, oh, yeah, I remember that
of having a stand up in the back of a
meet and I wouldn't let him lean on the wall
when they did that. Then I'm gonna go back Olivia.
As a player, so I was, well, most people will
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come call a gunner on the punt team, but we
had a different formation at Southern, So I run down
on the field and Grambling was notorious for running a
well a wall return to their events. So I'm the
outside guy and man that wall. I'm the first guy
that gets picked off by the wall, and I got
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hit so hard. I got you know, back then you
could hear old people up crackback. I got hit so far.
I couldn't hardly eat for about a week because I
couldn't chew. And you know, people would sort to make
fun of him because that that was when the game
was on NBC, like Big NBC, and you know, guys
are maybe hey man, I saw you get knocked out,
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almost like you know how the Craig did deep ward
one of them, Hey man, you got knocked out. So
that was one of my my not so highlight moments.
Another moment I.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Had my senior year, I.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Had an interception and that was pretty big for us
at the time. I had an interception and I picked
up a block kick and I got to almost the
last guy and and wasn't able to return. So I
had some pretty good moments as a player in the
BYU Classic. One time I remember so broget Files, who
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later became the head coach at ground he and I
played against each other and I knew the screen was coming.
I made the tackle and one of the defensive linemen
retraces and I got coach fives wrapped up and one
of the defensive linemen hit me and I didn't know it,
but my wrist got broken. And I played the rest
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of the game with a broken wrist, as well as
the Heritage Bowl, because I just thought it was hurt.
And you know, about February, I go see the trainer
and he said, man, your arms should not be hurting
as long. And he sends me to a specialist and
my wrist is broken in about three places, and like
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I say, it's one of those you just keep on playing.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
But that didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Happen in the by Your Classic. Another this this is
the one that Adam loves, so were playing in the
Buy You classes two ensited with the bathroom. So one
year I'm coaching at Grammer and I have to use
the bathroom real bad, so I run into the locker
room and as I'm running to the locker room, I
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trip and fall while I'm running. But you know it
was it wasn't on TV, though, So that was that
was the only good thing about it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Hold on, hold on, cod, you didn't accidentally have an
accident after.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, no, no, I did not use the restroom on myself,
but they mad because the turf the turf monster got me.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Now, look, I did have a teammate.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
The crazy thing. I did have a teammate that was
sick and got hit and used the bathroom on the
self in the game. And I'm not talking about number one.
So look, so he goes to the locker room. So
we have a I want to say, it must have
been a thirty year reunion. And I told Adam this story.
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So when we get to the reunion, I say, Adam,
so like, that's the guy and he's like, what is
that's the guy that you and he looked. Adam started
looked at him and said, yeah, he looks like somebody
that was us the pasthroom all stuff. So you know,
just to see look at Adam looking at that guy
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was was a funny one. The other thing, when I
first started coaching that grammar, it was the I can
remember the first time I'm already on the field and
Southern runs out on the field.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
So it's like you're hearing Southern's fight.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Song as they running out and I'm like, man, hey,
it was like a surreal moment for me because here
I am. I am maybe twenty two or twenty three
years old.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Howard starting quarterback at Grammlin, was my teammate at Southern,
and he and I had a great relationship, and you know,
just to go through that whole thing and having him
have one of the best games he ever had was
big for me. Like I say, is that I'm full
circle working for the Super Bowl, MVP, coaching at Grammlin
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and all of that type of stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So that was pretty big.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And it is the last two I end with Adam No,
I'm gonna go back to when I was playing so
one year, my red shirt freshman year, I was the kicker.
I ended up I was just starting safety, but my
high school coach ended up being on the staff at Southern.
So our kicker Trigor's ACA against all Corn. Actually the
very first game that I ever started was All Corn
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Steve McNair's I want to say it was his sophomore
year maybe, so man, Steve, I'll kicker gets hurt, so
the coach makes me the kicker for the rest of
the year. So I missed a pat in a by
your class. And so one of my homeboys walks up
to me after the game, like the Monday after the
buyer because he say, hey, man, my grandmother hates you.
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So I'm like, man, why is.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like why your grandmother hate you?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
So look, you know how you fit out the squares
and if you the point mans, you win like one
hundred or five hundred nine. She said, man, if you
would have made that pat, my grandmother would have won
one hundred and twenty five dollars. And he said because
she missed that pad, I'm like, man, it don't have nothing.
And so but that I think that was one of
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the funniest. And then the last one, uh two years ago,
so I get I was pretty this one. Great Coach
Graves was the interim coach. So because of Sean Wallison,
our relationships who's passed away, and my relationship with coach Grays,
I end up getting a couple of sideline passes for
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the game. And that was the game where the Bayue
Classic came down to pretty much the last player of
the game. Southern stops Grammling on fourth and goal and
Adam and my wife's cousin my hot. Both of them
got down on the field. I have no idea, but
they basically end up storming the field with all the
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Sudthern players and stuff. You know, they sort of got involved.
So that was my second full circumount. Lie I go
from being a player to having my son be on
the sideline at the Bayu Classic and they get caught
up in the the hoopla of many you win the
game on pretty much the last player of the game,
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and uh, that was big for them, having that chance
to be down on the field and then low and behold.
Just last night, my cousins son who was on the
field with Adam, he just got his acceptance letter to
Southern Universe. Look, and his parents is damn say, his
dad really wants him to go to Prairie, but he
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wants to go to Southern. I think because of that
experience of being down on the field, having a chance
to talk to some of my teammates the way the
game and you know, that just resonated with him. So I,
like I said, those are some of my top by
your classic moments in a.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Nutshell, Well, look, in regard to your nephew, we can't
win them all. Coach, somebody got to go to Southern
and Grambling, so we'll let that one get a pass
on that. Well. Now, it's really a nice and reflective
how you go back and share these memories and it's
just a special time and it's one of those deals.
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And I can honestly say this. We all root for
our schools because that's part of our DNA, that's part.
But we always root for each other as well. And
when you when you look back and the relationships that
you build that you didn't even think you would have
when you were competing with one another, then you start
coaching with one another and then you know, then analyze
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it one another throughout everything. When you go back, coach,
this is a special time of year. What are you
thankful for?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Man? You know, if I just had to it's hard
to put in a nutshere, but just the opportunity of
being blessed to be involved in something or some places
that people look down on. And I can draw from
every school that I've been at. You know, I'm gonna
start with Southern. Then having a chance to go to
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Morehouse College, which is one of the most prestigious schools
in the whole United States. Then going to Gramblin helping
turn that pro and I and I believe I helped
turned Southern around because Southern hadn't won since the seventies,
the outright championship. And then I win two championships with football,
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and I win the championship as a member of the
baseball team at Southern. We didn't stay at more House
long enough to turn that thing around, but I think
had we stayed there, we'll end up eventually winning that
more House as well. Because we brought four guys from
more House that all of them end up starting at Graham.
That's how good of a job we were doing recruiting.
Then to win, to win three championships in a row
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at Grammlin was big. Now, mind you, some of those
years we won a championship but didn't beat Southern, and
people when it does to fire all of a sudden, he
had three coaches from Southern, and at one time he
had four coaches from Southern on his staff and they
wanted us fire then to have a chance to come
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to praier View that wasn't known for winning and helping
turn that thing around and winning the championship, becoming a
head coach and Unfortunately, we didn't win. And I really
think had we not had some of those APR penalties
or some of the other natural disasters that happened during
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my time as a head coach, I think we probably
able to win at least one championship or get to
the championship game. And see what happened as a result
of me being the head coach and then the one
year it takes such I'm just thankful for all those stops,
all those opportunities that now have given me a chance to,
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like I said, live in a house that's paid for,
have my son end up going to one of the
schools that I ended up working at over.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
What school again? What school was that? Again?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The Praia of University as you and look the thing
about it is, it's a it's a great opportunity. I say,
I never would have saw myself being at Praierview, like say,
I could always sort of have seen myself at Grambling
at Southern. But you know, in order to be at Praierview,
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the Gramlin and Southern had to have happened. And I'm
just glad for those opportunities and and and for me
being able to enjoy it. That's the thing about a
lot of people work some places and are miserable, and
I have worked at a place for a year and
was miserable. I mean, I really loved those places. And
I talk about man, if you if you don't like
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in particular, if you don't like Southern, if you don't
like Grahambling, and if you don't like Praierview, something is
really wrong with you, especially if you're a black person.
In my mind, because I've seen I've seen the positives
of every school, and I honestly believe, you know, when
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I see stuff online about people complaining about some of
the stuff that HBCUs have to do and go through,
like I see some of that, But at the same time,
it's you know, people say things public that I would
never say about an HBC. I don't care how bad
it is, but for me to be able to enjoy that,
my family to be able to enjoy and to have
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the access. Now I'm looking at my niece being able
to join me in the press box at a game
of wanting to go tailgate at prayer View. Like I said,
it's really full circle two or three times for me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Very good, very good, Well Coach, I can't tell you
thank you enough for what you bring to the open
mic and the energy, the knowledge. And here's what people
might not really fool be aware of. We didn't just
meet go We've we've known each other for quite some time,
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you know, and it's amazing how stuff comes together. And
it's a lot to truly, truly be thankful for. And
you know what else, we're thankful for you and your
wife of bringing brother Adam into the world and having
him make the best decision that he could ever make
at becoming a panther. Man. And you know, I can't
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tell you thank you enough for that, Coach. But all seriousness,
I want to give you an opportunity, Man, to reflect.
We'll get back on track next week. Lord say the
same with some closing thoughts from Man as we get
ready to let you continue your honey do list on
this Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Hey, look, man, you know you talk about Adam being
a panther, But as I'm sitting right outside the campus
of Prayer and University, I think about from the time
that he was real small, being in a what they
call a cont seat off bassinet on the floor of
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the baby down while I'm having defensive meetings, and because
my wife was out of town, I would always always
bring him on Thursdays, especially if we had a roll game,
and let him hang around campus. And then for I'm
gonna say, like the Brady Faggers, the Courtney Brown's, all
those people that took the coach Wilson's and coach Coopers
(29:24):
that may have taken him to the cafeteria, taken him
to band practice, you know, all that type of stuff.
I really do think sow the seed of him wanting
to be a Panther now and then have him be
on campus as there's another researchers in Prairie football. Oh
and he's doing well in school and en joining school.
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That's the thing, Like I say, you know, sometimes when
as a parent you want them to go somewhere, but
when they really make a decision for themselves and that
decision works out well for them, I really feel good
good about him making that decision. And like I say,
he couldn't have gone wrong in my opinion, with any decision,
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but for him to lay out why he chose to
come to Prairie and a university and then to see
it come to the way that he thought it would
be without any issues. He hadn't really had any issue
with a house, and you know, I would have liked
for him to get more scholarship money, of course, but
you know, just all those things to see it work
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out for him, and for him to bring people to
our house, bring kids from Dallas or wherever to our
house because of Prairieview, or for him to bring kids
to my dad's house for Southern's homecoming that they so
happy to be playing Praiview, or to see him and
my niece at a Prairiew football game. You know, just
(30:50):
all those types of things for them to work out
for him at Prairie I really am happy, and I'm
happy for him and really thankful for the people like yourself,
the Miss Wanda's, the Msrdino and the Panther backers, all
those people that make his time since he was a
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little boy at Praierview to where he wanted to spend
four or five years there. I just like to say,
I'm thankful for those people and all the assistant coaches
that looked out for him, and all my former players
that looked out for him as a youngster to make
him want to come back because you know, had some
things not gonna well when he was little. There's probably
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no way in the world he wanted to end up here.
So I'm just thankful for that and for prayer and
the university for all that they have done for me
and mine as they.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Say, yes sir, well sir. On that note, we want
to say thank you again. Travel say sir, enjoy that
by you classic man as a fan and embrace the
fan based part of it. Man, it's gonna be all right, Coach,
It's gonna be right. He is coach. It's northern of
the Maha. How do we put this Southern graand PV
(32:05):
nation family. Let's say the Swack family. Just gonna say
the Swack family about it? Yeah, Uh, color analysis here
for us at the open mic.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Doing outstanding job, Philip and Joyce working with you immensely.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He gets a kick.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Out of you.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And look now I'm gonna fuss at you one time
Coach before we get out of Keep your hands off
that headset. Man. When you hey, I.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Was the same. I was the same way as a coach,
you know, you trying to say stuff and then when
sometimes it to be honest with you. My nixt Adam
or somebody else is in the box. I'm trying to
almost have a conversation with them. Sometimes I cannot see
the numbers, so I may have an accent, like what
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number was that? Uh So it's just all all. I
knew the thing because I guess myself doing it well
all that.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Man, it's it's a blast man and and and what
a joy it is to have you on board. Uh
he is our football guru, coach Heigh Norton. I am
the radio guy, doctor Mike Prince. Want to remind you
guys that she can follow me on Twitter x at
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(33:23):
obanradio dot com. And until the next time, you guys,
be blessed and we'll see you on the other side.
And welcome back to another episode. Here of after further review,
we are joined by none other than our football guru expert,
the Man of the I'm gonna have to say, other
season coach coach Heights Northern coach. How you doing today, sir?
(00:24):
You know, let's see. I okay, we got to I
had to just a slight stall at the gate. How
we gonna start that again? How you feeling, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Man, I'm doing pretty good. Look, I ain't got wangled.
Then to going to the body ty actually going to
the game. Normally I don't go to it. I usually
actually come back to the Houston area and go hunting
and fishing somewhere while my wife and kids go to
the game because for a while, you know, I couldn't
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go to it because I was coaching in the conference.
And then the other thing I just thought of, I
don't like sitting in the stands here and people complain
about coaches and players, and it's hard for me to
do in a dome situation where I just really can't
get away from people. So I just thought that I
would come home and do my Black Fridy shopping or
go go in the woods and go fishing. So this year,
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I'm actually going to a bond that's given by Southern
Universe because of some of the contributions that my wife
and I have made. And I'm going to the game.
I don't know where I be, but I'll be somewhere
in the dome. So we'll see how it's all gonna
work out.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Right now, I know it's a unique time at jack Nation,
and to be quite honest with you, an uncomfortable time,
not accustomed to being with the history that you have
when as they say, the rabbit has the gun coach.
What has the experience been like for you as a supporter,
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as a fan, and even as an alumnust former player.
How are you, I guess, embracing these times.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, you know, I look at it the same way
all the time. Number one gets a RIVALIY game. And
if you go back and you ask a lot of people, man,
it's some bad Southern teams that have beaten some real
good Grammar teams in abouy your classes. So there's something
that you know, a lot of Jaguars hold in the
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in the back pocket. As they said, my father in law,
who's fins passed away and played football at Grammar and
That's one of the things that he always thought about
was he can remember like a nine and one, a
nine and two Grammar team losing two, a three and seven,
you know, four and five, you know whatever, the record
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bad Southern team for see. So we're gonna hold on
to that this year. And uh, you know, I've been
messing with my sister who's a Grammlin alum that may
and we gonna find a way to win that game.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That's the hope that I hold all the time because
you know it's gonna be a good and then for
me and the coach at Grammar for nine years. I
tell people this and they think I'm crazy. If I
could live anywhere that I've ever lived in my life,
including Atlanta, Baton Rouge and currently in cyprotextas I go
back to Gramlin yesterday, I mean, I just love living
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up there.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I had a.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
House that I could hunt and fish in my backyard.
Football is near and dear to those people. It wasn't
a lot of crime and all that type of stuff.
You know, it was right up Miami. So I really
liked that place. I was living there when I got married,
and you know, all that type of stuff. Goes into
being at Graham But you know, and I'm gonna see
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some of my former players and all that type of stuff.
So I'm looking forward to the game of more than
just being in New Orleans, I should say, almost than
the game itself.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Okay, okay, And this shall be a well deserve get away.
You know, sometime when you're in the middle of everything,
you don't get a chance to embrace the moment as
you really could as a fan if you mean to
use those air quotes, And it's a different perspective for
different feel or different connect that's involved with it. Do
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you find yourself in strange places now?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
And sometimes so? And we're gonna talk about a couple
of my most memory experiences. But to be honest with you,
we grew up Grandlar Fans because my mother and father,
oh went to school at Grantland. Now my mother, if
you were to ask her, she would tell you she
went to school at Grantland, but she graduated from Southern
and got a master from there. I had some uncles.
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One of my uncles is still one of the all
time leading Russians in the history of Grandma State University.
His cousin was one of the starting de visit backs
at Grantland at the same time. And they from a
very small I mean a town small and wilerd you know,
Praier View, a single a school in Louisiana. So for
those guys to go from Chady Grove or Rosedale, Go
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State Louisiana to starting at Grammlin, that was big. And
I could tell you this. They say it was two
big things that happened in that small town. One they
had the very first brick house that was built and
people were coming to watch it get built like it
was the Governor's mentioned. And Two, when Eddi Robinson came
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to recruit those guys to come to Gramlin, you would
have thought that the President of the United States came
to I mean they were lying down the street like
it was the parade come in to town, just to
see Eddie Robinson shake his hand, you know, like pat
him on the shoulder and all that type of stuff.
(05:54):
And he came to recruit those guys. So my time
to Gramlin goes way back. But you know, I just
so happen to go to something. So I say, I
look forward to all the different dynamics of the game,
but I do not feel I'm gonna say funny. At
first I did, but now it's just that is a
big part of my life and where I am not
(06:14):
both plays, Yes, sir, Yes, So we're talking on Coach
heightst Northern our play by play.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I mean, this man is swacked bound. You know, we
know Dion made it famous that I am swacked. But
Coach I can say without hesitation that you're definitely swacked
from your connections in and about and we normally we
got a week, if you will, to talk about and
focus on ProView. But because this is a special week
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traditionally with Gramblin and Southern, you got the Turkey Day
Bowl with Alabama State and Tuskegee, and we got another
game thrown in the mix, which is almost a question
of why they've fallen through with it. But you got
to play the games and sendis them out between Valley
and Fam. You the traditional games to buy you classic,
(07:05):
the Turkey Bowl, Classic, the Turkey Class. You can see
even with a rough season that technically gramming the Southern's experience,
you still got this bowl, the Louisiana Bowl. If you
would that you got some ragging rights at least to
carry you through the off season. How do you motivate
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your guys if you're at FAM You or if you're
at Mississippi State, I mean Mississippi Valley and when you
when you and there's no knock on it, but let's
be honest, this is definitely a down year for uh
FAM You and it's a challenging a regular Oh this
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is what we do at Valley? How do you coach
do that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The biggest thing is, you know, and we struggle some
years when I was at prayer of you. If you
think about you know, a couple of years where we
had the APR penaties or you know, just the normal
rigors of college football where you might not be where
you want to be. And you just tell a guy, look, man,
you don't know if this's gonna be your last chance
(08:18):
to play college football. You know, some guys may say, well,
I'm not doing good here, I didn't play well. I'm
gonna end of the porter. You're not even guaranteed a
shot at landingsonwhere if you enter the porter. So your
big my biggest selling point to guys would be is
a football game. You chose to play it, Let's play it,
let's win. And if I'm whoever the role team, and
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hey man, let's make this bus ride back home a
good bus ride. Or let's if you thinking about in
a transfer portal, let's put something good on film. Uh,
if you're thinking about coming back, let's send us into
the off season on a high note. And now your
your screen workout may be a little bit better, or
(09:02):
your your workouts, your condition, your past scaling, all that
type of stuff will be a little bit better during
the offseason as you approach it getting ready for spring football.
If you win that last game, because I can tell
you what I remember. I think one year we lost
the pine Gloffs, and I want to say the year
that they won the championship, but we the on the
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one yard line and from of the football going into
the end zone, and it was one of those well
I had players apologizing to me, you know for some
of the things that happened after the night before. Guys
may have kept their fone where they normally turn it in,
or guys may have stayed up a little bit late,
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you know. So it's different things like that that you
take into it, and you know you'll have guy to say, well, coach,
that won't happen again and hopefully you learn from it.
But the biggest thing is is a game you chose
to play, man, you might as well playing to your foot.
You don't know if that's gonna be the last time
you put the shoulder pass on. If you're a younger guy,
and if you're an older guy, that's gonna be your
(10:09):
Lands game. If you're a senior, then you can say, man,
I won my Lands game. And like I said, I
can gively remember my Lands game. As a football player
at Southern, we played in a back then they called
it the Iriagage Bowl against Lord A and m I
can almost go down the line and tell you my
stats and some of the players that won the game
for us. So it's a it's gonna be a member
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occasion for some of those guys.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yes, sir, no doubt about it. Again, we're talking with
Coach Heights Northern in this special Thanksgiving recollection series. Now, Coach,
I gave you an assignment last week and we wanted
to go some of your top ten memorable moments being
involved with this Bayu classic, whether it's the being a coach,
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a player, a fan, supporter and and uh, we're gonna
go if you can from ten up to one, and
I'm a step back man, and let you start your countdown,
all right.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So i'ma I'm gonna I didn't put them in quite
the number.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
One order, but it's uh.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I put it almost in the pole logical order more
than number one.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So okay.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
One game, one game in particular that I'll talk about
is the Grambling and my father in law, like you said,
he was a grammliner, a big gramblin a long and
one year and you'll probably see it if you if
anybody's watching the game, they'll show Grambling band in the
touxedos instead of their normal outfits. Now, my father in law,
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like said, had something to do with getting the touxedos
for the for the band. So that's one one of
the all time that a lot of people will remember.
I think I may have been in the nine to
ten year old reigns and my uncle was on the
coaching staff at Southern, So that's one of those memorable moments,
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like I said, within the game, but it was something
that a lot of people will remember. Then I'm gonna
move to one year when I was coaching at Grammar.
One of our better players and I learned a great
lessons from this. We wouldn't meet as an offensive unit
when I was at Gramler at six or six thirty
(12:34):
in the morning. So one of my players, I'm not
gonna say his name, he played wide receiver for us,
and he was one of the smartest players on the team,
and he was sleeping a meeting and I saw the
let him, I'm gonna say sleep or not off for
because he never really made any minimal mistake. So we
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get to a situation in the game where we called
the player when we sort of save this play because
we knew the exact blitz that Southern was gonna run,
and normally when Southern blitz off the side that he
was on, he was supposed to run a flat route. Well,
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we call the play. He runs the flat instead of
running his supposed to be an inside route, and he
takes his guy to the running back, who we know
is gonna be covered by the free safe. There's no
way this free safety can cover him unless somebody makes
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a mistaken long behold that young man ran the wrong route.
They tackle us for right at the line of scrimmage.
And I learned from then sort of don't take anything
for granted as a coach, even if it's one of
your better players, because any sort of slip up will
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cause a problem for you down the line. So I
learned that, and then that's what made me as a coach.
I started making guys. If I could tell a kid
was sleepy your side, I would make them stand up
in the back of the meeting room. Or I would actually,
especially when I was coaching at Prayer View, I would
give my defensive players permission. So if a guy was
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sleeping next to you, and if you could get my
attention without waking the guy up, you could slap him
on the back of the neck. And if you got
slapped on the back of the neck for being asleep,
the room was you could not hit anybody back. So
that was where I got there from just the And
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if you ask some of those guys that played defense
for me, they'll tell you, oh, yeah, I remember that
of having a stand up in the back of a
meet and I wouldn't let him lean on the wall
when they did that. Then I'm gonna go back Olivia.
As a player, so I was, well, most people will
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come call a gunner on the punt team, but we
had a different formation at Southern, So I run down
on the field and Grambling was notorious for running a
well a wall return to their events. So I'm the
outside guy and man that wall. I'm the first guy
that gets picked off by the wall, and I got
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hit so hard. I got you know, back then you
could hear old people up crackback. I got hit so far.
I couldn't hardly eat for about a week because I
couldn't chew. And you know, people would sort to make
fun of him because that that was when the game
was on NBC, like Big NBC, and you know, guys
are maybe hey man, I saw you get knocked out,
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almost like you know how the Craig did deep ward
one of them, Hey man, you got knocked out. So
that was one of my my not so highlight moments.
Another moment I.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Had my senior year, I.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Had an interception and that was pretty big for us
at the time. I had an interception and I picked
up a block kick and I got to almost the
last guy and and wasn't able to return. So I
had some pretty good moments as a player in the
BYU Classic. One time I remember so broget Files, who
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later became the head coach at ground he and I
played against each other and I knew the screen was coming.
I made the tackle and one of the defensive linemen
retraces and I got coach fives wrapped up and one
of the defensive linemen hit me and I didn't know it,
but my wrist got broken. And I played the rest
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of the game with a broken wrist, as well as
the Heritage Bowl, because I just thought it was hurt.
And you know, about February, I go see the trainer
and he said, man, your arms should not be hurting
as long. And he sends me to a specialist and
my wrist is broken in about three places, and like
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I say, it's one of those you just keep on playing.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
But that didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Happen in the by Your Classic. Another this this is
the one that Adam loves, so were playing in the
Buy You classes two ensited with the bathroom. So one
year I'm coaching at Grammer and I have to use
the bathroom real bad, so I run into the locker
room and as I'm running to the locker room, I
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trip and fall while I'm running. But you know it
was it wasn't on TV, though, So that was that
was the only good thing about it.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Hold on, hold on, cod, you didn't accidentally have an
accident after.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, no, no, I did not use the restroom on myself,
but they mad because the turf the turf monster got me.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Now, look, I did have a teammate.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
The crazy thing. I did have a teammate that was
sick and got hit and used the bathroom on the
self in the game. And I'm not talking about number one.
So look, so he goes to the locker room. So
we have a I want to say, it must have
been a thirty year reunion. And I told Adam this story.
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So when we get to the reunion, I say, Adam,
so like, that's the guy and he's like, what is
that's the guy that you and he looked. Adam started
looked at him and said, yeah, he looks like somebody
that was us the pasthroom all stuff. So you know,
just to see look at Adam looking at that guy
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was was a funny one. The other thing, when I
first started coaching that grammar, it was the I can
remember the first time I'm already on the field and
Southern runs out on the field.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
So it's like you're hearing Southern's fight.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Song as they running out and I'm like, man, hey,
it was like a surreal moment for me because here
I am. I am maybe twenty two or twenty three
years old.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Howard starting quarterback at Grammlin, was my teammate at Southern,
and he and I had a great relationship, and you know,
just to go through that whole thing and having him
have one of the best games he ever had was
big for me. Like I say, is that I'm full
circle working for the Super Bowl, MVP, coaching at Grammlin
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and all of that type of stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So that was pretty big.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And it is the last two I end with Adam No,
I'm gonna go back to when I was playing so
one year, my red shirt freshman year, I was the kicker.
I ended up I was just starting safety, but my
high school coach ended up being on the staff at Southern.
So our kicker Trigor's ACA against all Corn. Actually the
very first game that I ever started was All Corn
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Steve McNair's I want to say it was his sophomore
year maybe, so man, Steve, I'll kicker gets hurt, so
the coach makes me the kicker for the rest of
the year. So I missed a pat in a by
your class. And so one of my homeboys walks up
to me after the game, like the Monday after the
buyer because he say, hey, man, my grandmother hates you.
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So I'm like, man, why is.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Like why your grandmother hate you?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
So look, you know how you fit out the squares
and if you the point mans, you win like one
hundred or five hundred nine. She said, man, if you
would have made that pat, my grandmother would have won
one hundred and twenty five dollars. And he said because
she missed that pad, I'm like, man, it don't have nothing.
And so but that I think that was one of
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the funniest. And then the last one, uh two years ago,
so I get I was pretty this one. Great Coach
Graves was the interim coach. So because of Sean Wallison,
our relationships who's passed away, and my relationship with coach Grays,
I end up getting a couple of sideline passes for
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the game. And that was the game where the Bayue
Classic came down to pretty much the last player of
the game. Southern stops Grammling on fourth and goal and
Adam and my wife's cousin my hot. Both of them
got down on the field. I have no idea, but
they basically end up storming the field with all the
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Sudthern players and stuff. You know, they sort of got involved.
So that was my second full circumount. Lie I go
from being a player to having my son be on
the sideline at the Bayu Classic and they get caught
up in the the hoopla of many you win the
game on pretty much the last player of the game,
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and uh, that was big for them, having that chance
to be down on the field and then low and behold.
Just last night, my cousins son who was on the
field with Adam, he just got his acceptance letter to
Southern Universe. Look, and his parents is damn say, his
dad really wants him to go to Prairie, but he
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wants to go to Southern. I think because of that
experience of being down on the field, having a chance
to talk to some of my teammates the way the
game and you know, that just resonated with him. So I,
like I said, those are some of my top by
your classic moments in a.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Nutshell, Well, look, in regard to your nephew, we can't
win them all. Coach, somebody got to go to Southern
and Grambling, so we'll let that one get a pass
on that. Well. Now, it's really a nice and reflective
how you go back and share these memories and it's
just a special time and it's one of those deals.
(22:51):
And I can honestly say this. We all root for
our schools because that's part of our DNA, that's part.
But we always root for each other as well. And
when you when you look back and the relationships that
you build that you didn't even think you would have
when you were competing with one another, then you start
coaching with one another and then you know, then analyze
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it one another throughout everything. When you go back, coach,
this is a special time of year. What are you
thankful for?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Man? You know, if I just had to it's hard
to put in a nutshere, but just the opportunity of
being blessed to be involved in something or some places
that people look down on. And I can draw from
every school that I've been at. You know, I'm gonna
start with Southern. Then having a chance to go to
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Morehouse College, which is one of the most prestigious schools
in the whole United States. Then going to Gramblin helping
turn that pro and I and I believe I helped
turned Southern around because Southern hadn't won since the seventies,
the outright championship. And then I win two championships with football,
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and I win the championship as a member of the
baseball team at Southern. We didn't stay at more House
long enough to turn that thing around, but I think
had we stayed there, we'll end up eventually winning that
more House as well. Because we brought four guys from
more House that all of them end up starting at Graham.
That's how good of a job we were doing recruiting.
Then to win, to win three championships in a row
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at Grammlin was big. Now, mind you, some of those
years we won a championship but didn't beat Southern, and
people when it does to fire all of a sudden, he
had three coaches from Southern, and at one time he
had four coaches from Southern on his staff and they
wanted us fire then to have a chance to come
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to praier View that wasn't known for winning and helping
turn that thing around and winning the championship, becoming a
head coach and Unfortunately, we didn't win. And I really
think had we not had some of those APR penalties
or some of the other natural disasters that happened during
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my time as a head coach, I think we probably
able to win at least one championship or get to
the championship game. And see what happened as a result
of me being the head coach and then the one
year it takes such I'm just thankful for all those stops,
all those opportunities that now have given me a chance to,
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like I said, live in a house that's paid for,
have my son end up going to one of the
schools that I ended up working at over.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
What school again? What school was that? Again?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The Praia of University as you and look the thing
about it is, it's a it's a great opportunity. I say,
I never would have saw myself being at Praierview, like say,
I could always sort of have seen myself at Grambling
at Southern. But you know, in order to be at Praierview,
(26:16):
the Gramlin and Southern had to have happened. And I'm
just glad for those opportunities and and and for me
being able to enjoy it. That's the thing about a
lot of people work some places and are miserable, and
I have worked at a place for a year and
was miserable. I mean, I really loved those places. And
I talk about man, if you if you don't like
(26:39):
in particular, if you don't like Southern, if you don't
like Grahambling, and if you don't like Praierview, something is
really wrong with you, especially if you're a black person.
In my mind, because I've seen I've seen the positives
of every school, and I honestly believe, you know, when
(26:59):
I see stuff online about people complaining about some of
the stuff that HBCUs have to do and go through,
like I see some of that, But at the same time,
it's you know, people say things public that I would
never say about an HBC. I don't care how bad
it is, but for me to be able to enjoy that,
my family to be able to enjoy and to have
(27:20):
the access. Now I'm looking at my niece being able
to join me in the press box at a game
of wanting to go tailgate at prayer View. Like I said,
it's really full circle two or three times for me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Very good, very good, Well Coach, I can't tell you
thank you enough for what you bring to the open
mic and the energy, the knowledge. And here's what people
might not really fool be aware of. We didn't just
meet go We've we've known each other for quite some time,
(27:57):
you know, and it's amazing how stuff comes together. And
it's a lot to truly, truly be thankful for. And
you know what else, we're thankful for you and your
wife of bringing brother Adam into the world and having
him make the best decision that he could ever make
at becoming a panther. Man. And you know, I can't
(28:19):
tell you thank you enough for that, Coach. But all seriousness,
I want to give you an opportunity, Man, to reflect.
We'll get back on track next week. Lord say the
same with some closing thoughts from Man as we get
ready to let you continue your honey do list on
this Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Hey, look, man, you know you talk about Adam being
a panther, But as I'm sitting right outside the campus
of Prayer and University, I think about from the time
that he was real small, being in a what they
call a cont seat off bassinet on the floor of
(29:01):
the baby down while I'm having defensive meetings, and because
my wife was out of town, I would always always
bring him on Thursdays, especially if we had a roll game,
and let him hang around campus. And then for I'm
gonna say, like the Brady Faggers, the Courtney Brown's, all
those people that took the coach Wilson's and coach Coopers
(29:24):
that may have taken him to the cafeteria, taken him
to band practice, you know, all that type of stuff.
I really do think sow the seed of him wanting
to be a Panther now and then have him be
on campus as there's another researchers in Prairie football. Oh
and he's doing well in school and en joining school.
(29:46):
That's the thing, Like I say, you know, sometimes when
as a parent you want them to go somewhere, but
when they really make a decision for themselves and that
decision works out well for them, I really feel good
good about him making that decision. And like I say,
he couldn't have gone wrong in my opinion, with any decision,
(30:07):
but for him to lay out why he chose to
come to Prairie and a university and then to see
it come to the way that he thought it would
be without any issues. He hadn't really had any issue
with a house, and you know, I would have liked
for him to get more scholarship money, of course, but
you know, just all those things to see it work
(30:28):
out for him, and for him to bring people to
our house, bring kids from Dallas or wherever to our
house because of Prairieview, or for him to bring kids
to my dad's house for Southern's homecoming that they so
happy to be playing Praiview, or to see him and
my niece at a Prairiew football game. You know, just
(30:50):
all those types of things for them to work out
for him at Prairie I really am happy, and I'm
happy for him and really thankful for the people like yourself,
the Miss Wanda's, the Msrdino and the Panther backers, all
those people that make his time since he was a
(31:11):
little boy at Praierview to where he wanted to spend
four or five years there. I just like to say,
I'm thankful for those people and all the assistant coaches
that looked out for him, and all my former players
that looked out for him as a youngster to make
him want to come back because you know, had some
things not gonna well when he was little. There's probably
(31:31):
no way in the world he wanted to end up here.
So I'm just thankful for that and for prayer and
the university for all that they have done for me
and mine as they.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Say, yes sir, well sir. On that note, we want
to say thank you again. Travel say sir, enjoy that
by you classic man as a fan and embrace the
fan based part of it. Man, it's gonna be all right, Coach,
It's gonna be right. He is coach. It's northern of
the Maha. How do we put this Southern graand PV
(32:05):
nation family. Let's say the Swack family. Just gonna say
the Swack family about it? Yeah, Uh, color analysis here
for us at the open mic.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Doing outstanding job, Philip and Joyce working with you immensely.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He gets a kick.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Out of you.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And look now I'm gonna fuss at you one time
Coach before we get out of Keep your hands off
that headset. Man. When you hey, I.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Was the same. I was the same way as a coach,
you know, you trying to say stuff and then when
sometimes it to be honest with you. My nixt Adam
or somebody else is in the box. I'm trying to
almost have a conversation with them. Sometimes I cannot see
the numbers, so I may have an accent, like what
(32:53):
number was that? Uh So it's just all all. I
knew the thing because I guess myself doing it well
all that.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Man, it's it's a blast man and and and what
a joy it is to have you on board. Uh
he is our football guru, coach Heigh Norton. I am
the radio guy, doctor Mike Prince. Want to remind you
guys that she can follow me on Twitter x at
the Mike Prince Show, Subscribe to that YouTube channel with
the open Mic Broadcast Network, check out the website at
(33:23):
obanradio dot com. And until the next time, you guys,
be blessed and we'll see you on the other side.
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