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DURHAM – Don’t play poker with N.C. A&T football coach Rod Broadway.
He’ll take the shirt off your back, N.C. Central football coach Henry Frazier III said Tuesday.
“That’s his style,” and Broadway’s been dealing like that — talking as if his teams don’t have an ice cube’s chance next to a space heater — even back when he was coaching in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Frazier said.
The coaches went head to head in recent years in the Southwestern Athletic Conference when Broadway led Grambling State and Frazier was at the helm at Prairie View A&M.
On Saturday in Greensboro, Frazier and Broadway will send their squads to the field for another installment of an old rivalry featuring a couple of new twists.
This is Frazier’s inaugural season at NCCU, so he’ll get his first taste of what many knew as the Aggie-Eagle Classic.
“I’ve been hearing a lot about it since I’ve been in town,” Frazier said.
Frazier has said this NCCU team has performed as if they decided before the season started which weeks they’d play inspired football. If he’s right, then this one against A&T was circled on the calendar a long time ago.
The Eagles, Frazier said, won’t need anybody to get them worked up and ready to go inside Aggie Stadium on Saturday (1:30 p.m., nccueaglepride.com).
And then there’s Broadway, head coach at NCCU from 2003-06. He still has a home in Durham.
“Chicken Hut was my favorite,” Broadway said with a chuckle during the preseason. “Love the Chicken Hut.”
But “I’m Aggie now,” Broadway said. “I’m an Aggie now.”
Broadway said he didn’t go looking for the A&T job; it just opened up for him. He said he left a winning Grambling State program in order to get closer to his North Carolina roots. Broadway’s son lives in Durham.
Coaches in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conferences said both Broadway and Frazier are quality coaches who will make their league even stronger.
But to hear Broadway tell it, or sell it, there wasn’t enough coaching in the world to make anything out of the A&T team he inherited.
Asked before the season started about the strengths of A&T, Broadway said: “I don’t know if we have one right now. We’ve got a lot of work to do. Of course, you know we’ve been eight or nine years of bad football, so we’re trying to fix it, and we’re trying to identify some of the problems.”
On Tuesday, Broadway was still at it, poor-mouthing his Aggies, who last week lost to S.C. State 30-22.
Broadway wasn’t allowed on the sidelines in that game because the MEAC suspended him for displaying unsportsmanlike conduct during the Nov. 5 contest against Florida A&M. He was allowed to coach from the press box — not that he suggested his presence on the field would have made a difference.
“We’re just not good enough to win,” Broadway moaned. “We’re just not good enough right now.”
Frazier’s not buying what Broadway’s selling. The Aggies can play, Frazier said.
“They’re a big, physical football team, and we’re going to have our work cut out for us,” Frazier said.
A&T running back Mike Mayhew knows what to do when the quarterback sticks the football in his gut, and the Aggies are beasts on defense, Frazier said.
NCCU likely will be without Geovonie Irvine, who had been NCCU quarterback Michael Johnson’s favorite target and the Eagles’ most reliable playmaker.
Irvine hasn’t seen game time since injuring his right shoulder two weeks ago against Delaware State.
Both NCCU (2-8, 1-6 MEAC) and A&T (4-6, 3-4 MEAC) will finish the season with overall losing records, but a win this weekend by the Aggies would put them at .500 ball in the conference.
The coaches for both teams say their woes are the result of not having the big, strong bodies found at successful programs.
Frazier said NCCU has done a poor job of finishing ball games. Broadway said the same thing.
And Broadway added that people can say what they want to say about the Aggies, but they are not a good football team — they just aren’t, he said.
“We haven’t done anything. We’ve won four freaking ball games,” Broadway said.
Same ol’ Broadway act, Frazier said.
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DURHAM – Don’t play poker with N.C. A&T football coach Rod Broadway.
He’ll take the shirt off your back, N.C. Central football coach Henry Frazier III said Tuesday.
“That’s his style,” and Broadway’s been dealing like that — talking as if his teams don’t have an ice cube’s chance next to a space heater — even back when he was coaching in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Frazier said.
The coaches went head to head in recent years in the Southwestern Athletic Conference when Broadway led Grambling State and Frazier was at the helm at Prairie View A&M.
On Saturday in Greensboro, Frazier and Broadway will send their squads to the field for another installment of an old rivalry featuring a couple of new twists.
This is Frazier’s inaugural season at NCCU, so he’ll get his first taste of what many knew as the Aggie-Eagle Classic.
“I’ve been hearing a lot about it since I’ve been in town,” Frazier said.
Frazier has said this NCCU team has performed as if they decided before the season started which weeks they’d play inspired football. If he’s right, then this one against A&T was circled on the calendar a long time ago.
The Eagles, Frazier said, won’t need anybody to get them worked up and ready to go inside Aggie Stadium on Saturday (1:30 p.m., nccueaglepride.com).
And then there’s Broadway, head coach at NCCU from 2003-06. He still has a home in Durham.
“Chicken Hut was my favorite,” Broadway said with a chuckle during the preseason. “Love the Chicken Hut.”
But “I’m Aggie now,” Broadway said. “I’m an Aggie now.”
Broadway said he didn’t go looking for the A&T job; it just opened up for him. He said he left a winning Grambling State program in order to get closer to his North Carolina roots. Broadway’s son lives in Durham.
Coaches in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conferences said both Broadway and Frazier are quality coaches who will make their league even stronger.
But to hear Broadway tell it, or sell it, there wasn’t enough coaching in the world to make anything out of the A&T team he inherited.
Asked before the season started about the strengths of A&T, Broadway said: “I don’t know if we have one right now. We’ve got a lot of work to do. Of course, you know we’ve been eight or nine years of bad football, so we’re trying to fix it, and we’re trying to identify some of the problems.”
On Tuesday, Broadway was still at it, poor-mouthing his Aggies, who last week lost to S.C. State 30-22.
Broadway wasn’t allowed on the sidelines in that game because the MEAC suspended him for displaying unsportsmanlike conduct during the Nov. 5 contest against Florida A&M. He was allowed to coach from the press box — not that he suggested his presence on the field would have made a difference.
“We’re just not good enough to win,” Broadway moaned. “We’re just not good enough right now.”
Frazier’s not buying what Broadway’s selling. The Aggies can play, Frazier said.
“They’re a big, physical football team, and we’re going to have our work cut out for us,” Frazier said.
A&T running back Mike Mayhew knows what to do when the quarterback sticks the football in his gut, and the Aggies are beasts on defense, Frazier said.
NCCU likely will be without Geovonie Irvine, who had been NCCU quarterback Michael Johnson’s favorite target and the Eagles’ most reliable playmaker.
Irvine hasn’t seen game time since injuring his right shoulder two weeks ago against Delaware State.
Both NCCU (2-8, 1-6 MEAC) and A&T (4-6, 3-4 MEAC) will finish the season with overall losing records, but a win this weekend by the Aggies would put them at .500 ball in the conference.
The coaches for both teams say their woes are the result of not having the big, strong bodies found at successful programs.
Frazier said NCCU has done a poor job of finishing ball games. Broadway said the same thing.
And Broadway added that people can say what they want to say about the Aggies, but they are not a good football team — they just aren’t, he said.
“We haven’t done anything. We’ve won four freaking ball games,” Broadway said.
Same ol’ Broadway act, Frazier said.
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