Turnaround Specialist By Mike Potter
NCCU’s New Football Coach Has Made a Career of Turning Losers into Winners
H
enry Frazier III knew he was taking on a He became quarterback at Bowie State University pretty tough challenge when he left his in Maryland and led the longtime CIAA doormat head coaching job at Prairie View A&M to Bulldogs to a conference championship in 1989. become NCCU’s new football coach. He took over a long-losing high school program But Frazier has spent most of his life overcoming at Central High in Capitol Heights, Md., and obstacles. Raised in a single-parent household made it respectable before returning to Bowie as with two older sisters, he not only graduated from head coach and turning the program in the right high school but became the first man in his family direction again. to finish college — and then went on to earn a And master’s degree.
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