Former FAMU football coach sets book tour and a little golf, too
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Beverly Taylor wasn’t exactly shocked when her husband, Joe, said to her over breakfast on Christmas day a year ago that he was contemplating retiring from coaching college football.
She wondered if he wasn’t moving too fast. There was the possibility of a contract extension as head coach at FAMU. Plus, he was just a few victories from becoming the second-winningest coach in black college football history.
“Soon as he said it, I said, ‘Are you sure,’” Beverly Taylor recalled. “‘Are you sure you’re at peace with not getting up every day at 4 (in the morning)?’ He said, ‘I’m going to be OK with that.’
“There was never any reservation, any second-guessing. It was always moving forward.”
Joe Taylor told the world 10 months later, announcing his retirement with two games remaining on the Rattlers’ 2012 schedule. At the same time, he said he’d turn his attention to promoting a book titled, “The making of a champion. Success is an inconvenience,” which he’d written with Ronald L. Mann.
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