CSN Log
August 23rd, 2009, 07:00 AM
08-23-2009 06:50 AM
Bucking a Trend: ISU is one of the few football programs to have a black coach and black coordinators
TERRE HAUTE — Indiana State head football coach Trent Miles has a simple philosophy when he hires assistant coaches for his staff.
“I hire the best people possible whether they’re black, green, yellow, white … it doesn’t matter to me,” Miles said.
On ISU’s 2009 staff, the men Miles has hired to be his offensive and defensive coordinators — Troy Walters and Shannon Jackson — are both black. And that makes the ISU football program a rarity among its Division I brethren.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/08/23/bucking-a-trend-isu-is-one-of-the-few-fo?blog=2#more5450)
Bucking a Trend: ISU is one of the few football programs to have a black coach and black coordinators
TERRE HAUTE — Indiana State head football coach Trent Miles has a simple philosophy when he hires assistant coaches for his staff.
“I hire the best people possible whether they’re black, green, yellow, white … it doesn’t matter to me,” Miles said.
On ISU’s 2009 staff, the men Miles has hired to be his offensive and defensive coordinators — Troy Walters and Shannon Jackson — are both black. And that makes the ISU football program a rarity among its Division I brethren.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/08/23/bucking-a-trend-isu-is-one-of-the-few-fo?blog=2#more5450)