Neon Deion is no longer SWAC but it didn’t take long for another Pro Football Hall of Famer to take his place in the ranks of HBCU head coaches.
Ed Reed, who spent the majority of his career with the Baltimore Ravens before retiring in 2015, was announced yesterday as the next head coach at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. The move has boosters of the school, which plays in the same Southwestern Athletic Conference that Deion Sanders just departed, hoping for a similar turnaround from its most recent 2-9 record in 2022. Read more.