Ram Ramblings: Blount excited about being back in CIAA

KERMIT BLOUNT
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY
Courtesy: JCSU Athletics

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- Kermit Blount says this will likely be his final stop in a long career as a football coach.

Blount, 56, landed the head coaching job at Johnson C. Smith earlier this week. He spent 17 seasons at WSSU as its head coach before being fired in 2009 after a 1-10 season.

Blount, a WSSU graduate, has been around the CIAA block and he should do well, especially with around 30 scholarships and the high-school talent that’s in the Charlotte area.

“You have to cut your own back yard,” Blount said by telephone earlier this week. “If you don’t cut your own back yard when it comes to getting players from around Charlotte then it will be much harder to be successful.”

Blount, who has the most wins in WSSU history with 91, won two CIAA titles as a coach and two more as a player. He was the quarterback for the Rams in 1977 and ’78 when Coach Bill Hayes put the WSSU football program on the map.

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