FAIRFIELD, Alabama -- On the night of Nov. 11, the Miles College football team gathered in a conference room in an Atlanta hotel. The Golden Bears were just hours away from kickoff of the inaugural Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship game. There were no coaches in that room, just players. Miles first-year head coach Reginald Ruffin had agreed to the peculiar request, thinking that the impromptu meeting wouldn't last long.
Ruffin ended up waiting in the hotel lobby for more than three hours. His players finally exited the room around 10:30 p.m., their eyes red and watery.
"One of the kids told me, 'Coach, I learned a lot about my teammates tonight,'" said Ruffin, who adds he still doesn't know exactly what was said in that room.
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