Jay Hopson took full precaution in voicing all the right concerns as he strolled toward the podium and his place in immortality as the first non-African American head coach to ever call all the shots for the storied Alcorn State football program earlier this week.
Just how much of what he said even he truly believes seems a whole other matter.
“I don’t see black or white, we’re all purple and gold,” Hopson, whom the school further trumpeted as the “first non-black head coach in the history of the Southwestern Athletic Conference,” told a crowd full of media and eyebrows raised alumnus. “I’m coming home, and none of this has absolutely anything at all to do with race.”
And with that very pronouncement, Alcorn diehards now have every reason to frightfully wonder just how stacked the odds may really be against their beloved Braves returning to the glory days of the likes of Isaac Holt, Donald Driver and Steve McNair anytime soon. Forget about trading first downs and touchdowns with such longtime rivals as Jackson State, Alabama State and Grambling, given this week’s shenanigans one can wonder if the Braves even have a grasp on the turf their now treading.
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