Coach Taylor On Protecting The HBCU Brands

Coach Taylor on protecting the HBCU football brands.

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00:00 as a HBCU alum and also the head man at one of the most popular HBCUs.

00:07 How are you protecting that image? And I guess you can say guard in the yard.

00:14 Oh, that's a great question. You know, it's just about how we carry ourselves in these

00:20 type of situations on a day to day basis as far as our program. And what I mean by that,

00:24 you know, when we arrive at a hotel, you know, making sure everything when we're on the road,

00:29 I'm talking about just how is our operation ran, you know, is everything organized? Are kids doing

00:37 everything the right way? Are we respectable when you go into these places? And then just,

00:41 I always talk about it when you have opportunities to play football games on these national

00:45 spotlights and these big time national stations, you know, it's going out there and playing a good

00:51 brand of football, but it's a huge responsibility because you still got a lot of people that look

00:55 down on it and just think that, you know, we don't do things the right way. So it's important that

01:01 when we get those opportunities to show that we're doing everything the right way, we got to be,

01:06 you know, have our best foot forward and ready to go.