Alonzo Lee Talks National Championship for North Carolina A&T
Here’s a recent interview with new North Carolina A&T head football coach Alonzo Lee. He’s talking about the ability to recruit, what people can expect out of the Aggie defense, and how to change the culture within the program.
But a comment that he made that struck me wasn’t so much about his expectations for winning a national championship, as much as it was about integrating the community with the “new era” of A&T football.
In recent years it’s been hard convincing local recruits — not just Greensboro but the Triad — to stay home. How do you change that?
Taking the university to the community will help that. We’re going to try and take our program to the community with pee-wee leagues, with middle schools, with the high schools, with churches. We’re going to try and get out in the community. But one of the biggest things I feel is winning. Everyone wants to be part of winner. If we consistently win, we’ll get those guys. Look, we want that same individual that East Carolina and North Carolina State wants. That’s tough (to do) but if you look at our conference we have some of those type players in our conference. We hope we get our share of transfers also.
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