Frazier back as NCCU head football coach

DURHAM, North Carolina - Less than two weeks away from its first day of practice, the N.C. Central football team has back its leader.

"When a university hires a football coach, they hire the entire family," NCCU head football coach Henry Frazier III said. "And in a million years, I never would have thought something like this would have happened to me or my family. This has been the toughest period in my life, thus far."

NCCU athletics director Ingrid Wicker-McCree expressed confidence in Frazier while announcing his reinstatement on Monday in a conference room in NCCU's Leroy T. Walker Complex.



Frazier since May had been on paid leave from his $225,000-a-year job while his wife's allegation of assault made its way through the Wake County court system.

Shortly after midnight on May 14, police responded to Frazier's house on Bending Branch Court in Morrisville after being notified that a domestic assault had occurred. Officers found evidence of an assault, but Frazier wasn’t there.

Police later caught up with Frazier in his car not far from the house. The coach was charged with assault on a female and jailed at the Wake County Detention Center, where he was released the same day under a $1,500 secured bond.

Frazier signed a court document on which he admitted to getting into an argument with his wife before praying for her by rubbing anointed oil on her, but that's not something she wanted to occur.

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