Post by DOOMS on Jan 6, 2016 10:25:48 GMT -5
Found it:
Here's the quote of how he felt about coaching against his alma mater
Were you surprised by how well you were received by the Central folk, especially since you had really been giving them the business over these last couple of years as the football coach at A&T?
Bill Hayes: "Well, every now and then somebody gives me a little jab (laughing). But see, this is my home. That’s the main thing. And every time somebody begins to cut their eyes at me I remind them that ‘wait a minute, this is my home.’ I played here and went to school across the street at Hillside High School. I (walked) these halls as a student athlete. I wore the maroon and gray as an athlete. I was captain of the team, most valuable player of the team, freshman of the year, All American and All Conference- so I shed a lot of blood here. It was just that in my quest to find my own identity as a player and as a coach, when I graduated I left and tried to do what I was taught here. I had great coaches and great teachers at NCCU, and my coaches would have wanted me to get out and find my own way. And that’s what I did. I was the first black coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference. I coached in the high school system in Winston Salem and helped integrate the high school system there. My coaches would have wanted me to do that rather than hanging around home and settling for being average. They would have wanted me to go out there and do the very best. So every time I played against my old team, the NCCU Eagles, I saw the faces of all those great coaches- the Herman Riddicks, the LeRoy Walkers, and the Jimmy Youngs- guys who came in and taught me how to fight and how to win, and so I would never want to let them down. Coming out of the tunnel and out on the field I could see all of those faces saying, “Man, you can’t let us down. You’ve got to show everybody what our teachings were about.” And so I went out there with a vengeance, trying to prove that I could get this thing done."
Here's the link. The whole interview is a PHENOMENAL read:
www.bluedeathvalley.com/exintv_billhayes_partone.html
www.bluedeathvalley.com/exclusive_interviews/exintv_billhayes_parttwo.html
www.bluedeathvalley.com/exclusive_interviews/exintv_billhayes_partthree.html
Here's the quote of how he felt about coaching against his alma mater
Were you surprised by how well you were received by the Central folk, especially since you had really been giving them the business over these last couple of years as the football coach at A&T?
Bill Hayes: "Well, every now and then somebody gives me a little jab (laughing). But see, this is my home. That’s the main thing. And every time somebody begins to cut their eyes at me I remind them that ‘wait a minute, this is my home.’ I played here and went to school across the street at Hillside High School. I (walked) these halls as a student athlete. I wore the maroon and gray as an athlete. I was captain of the team, most valuable player of the team, freshman of the year, All American and All Conference- so I shed a lot of blood here. It was just that in my quest to find my own identity as a player and as a coach, when I graduated I left and tried to do what I was taught here. I had great coaches and great teachers at NCCU, and my coaches would have wanted me to get out and find my own way. And that’s what I did. I was the first black coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference. I coached in the high school system in Winston Salem and helped integrate the high school system there. My coaches would have wanted me to do that rather than hanging around home and settling for being average. They would have wanted me to go out there and do the very best. So every time I played against my old team, the NCCU Eagles, I saw the faces of all those great coaches- the Herman Riddicks, the LeRoy Walkers, and the Jimmy Youngs- guys who came in and taught me how to fight and how to win, and so I would never want to let them down. Coming out of the tunnel and out on the field I could see all of those faces saying, “Man, you can’t let us down. You’ve got to show everybody what our teachings were about.” And so I went out there with a vengeance, trying to prove that I could get this thing done."
Here's the link. The whole interview is a PHENOMENAL read:
www.bluedeathvalley.com/exintv_billhayes_partone.html
www.bluedeathvalley.com/exclusive_interviews/exintv_billhayes_parttwo.html
www.bluedeathvalley.com/exclusive_interviews/exintv_billhayes_partthree.html