North Carolina
Bill Hayes reflects on being honored by North Carolina
Rising up in Durham, NC within the Nineteen Fifties, Invoice Hayes lived within the shadow of the College of North Carolina. Seven many years later he’s being honored at Kenan Memorial Stadium when UNC performs Florida A&M together with fellow legendary HBCU soccer coaches Rod Broadway and Ruddy Hubbard.
Residing within the Jim Crow South, UNC was a college that he couldn’t have attended when he left Hillside Excessive Faculty within the early Nineteen Sixties. So being honored at UNC is fairly wild.
“Far past something I might ever imagined. To be going over to the College of North Carolina to be honored at a soccer recreation on their soccer area by their soccer coach and the alumni, associates of the college. It’s completely unbelievable,” Hayes mentioned. “As a result of it simply looks as if yesterday — again within the sixties — the place if we went to a Carolina recreation we needed to sit up within the buzzard roost. Means again up within the nook. So issues have modified tremendously.”
After changing into an All-American at North Carolina Central, Hayes went on to change into a coach, working briefly as an assistant at Wake Forest earlier than happening to take the pinnacle teaching job at Winston-Salem State. Invoice Hayes led WSSU to 3 CIAA titles in 11 years earlier than happening the street to Greensboro, the place he led North Carolina A&T to 3 MEAC titles. Hayes went 195-104-2, changing into one of many winningest coaches within the faculty soccer historical past of North Carolina.
It was throughout Hayes’ time at A&T that Mack Brown was in his first stint as head coach at North Carolina. Hayes says Brown has at all times been keen to succeed in throughout the aisle, serving to out the place he might. Hayes advised HBCU Gameday’s Lut Williams a couple of time the place Brown rolled up with a truck full of coaching tape.
“We simply had a meager tape finances and we had two, three practices a day— however children solely received taped one time,” Hayes remembers. “They received taped n the morning needed to put on that tape, took a bathe, put on that tape for the following two practices. So Mack gave me sufficient tape in order that we might handle for the remainder of the season. He’s at all times been there behind the scenes serving to us out. I actually admire the man.”
