GRAMBLING, Louisiana -- The Grambling State University football team said it would return to the playing field Monday and resume its season after boycotting its SWAC game with Jackson State on Saturday. The team met with several ex-Grambling players this weekend as well as Baton Rouge businessman Jim Bernhard, all of who advised them to return to the playing field.In a show of solidarity, all 83 of the players appeared in front of the Eddie Robinson Museum in Grambling at 3 p.m. to meet with the media. Senior defensive back Naquan Smith, who has become the spokesman for the team, read a prepared statement and answered a few questions before the team departed for practice.
The players skipped practices Wednesday and Thursday and elected not to play Saturday’s game because of what they characterized poor facilities, the firing of popular coach Doug Williams and long bus rides to Kansas City and Indianapolis for games.
“As part of the athletic program at Grambling State University, the football team, took a stance on what we thought was right,’’ the players said in a joint statement. “We did not quit on our university. There are many problems that exist and if no one says anything, nothing will come of our institution.’’
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