Adrian has NSU Spartans surging

Pete Adrian, Norfolk State University head football coach is leading the Spartans ("we just want to compete") towards MEAC supremacy and a FCS playoff berth.

Norfolk, VA -- Strangely enough, we might be 18 or 20 years into the Pete Adrian Era at Old Dominion, had the Monarchs pulled the trigger on football back in the late 1980s. Instead, he glances across town as ODU's start-up takes shape while he builds a championship contender at Norfolk State — all without a trace of employee's remorse. A coaching lifer, the 60-year-old Adrian needed less than four years to turn a program that had become almost a punchline into one that again matters to alumni and fans, if not the entire Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

The Spartans are 2-1 heading into Saturday's non-conference game at William and Mary, the first of a home-and-home arrangement with the Tribe, and Adrian is intrigued about what this meeting, and the coming years, could bring to the Spartans. It's why he wanted to come here when the job came open after the 2004 season. It's why he turned down Rhode Island, and overtures from others, last winter.

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