Reintroducing Melvin Spears

Very good read from the Deriso Report on former Grambling coach Melvin Spears; especially if you are somebody still trying to determine if you hate or love the guy. Check the excerpt after the jump.

As Spears prepares for a televised Thursday night return to Grambling, now as an assistant coach at SWAC West rival Texas Southern, his insoluble nature remains as much as mystery to some as the day Williams, his first cousin, hired Spears in 1998 as offensive coordinator.

He’s a guy who had his players pay tribute to a legendary influence like former GSU coach Eddie Robinson, but also publicly demanded a forfeit when a competing school’s officials said they couldn’t play in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

He is a coach who once took the team on a tour of historical landmarks from the Civil Rights era before a critical game against the defending SWAC champion in Montgomery. But also the one who stuck with his starters after halftime in tongue-wagging blowouts over Prairie View and a first-year NAIA program.

He is a man who wears sunglasses at night.

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