Central State University has hired Southwest Baptist defensive coordinator E.J. Junior as its new head football coach. Central State Marauders hire E.J. Junior as football coach - ESPN
Former Bama Great E.J. Junior Head Coach @ Central State
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I have a true story about E. J. Junior when he was at Alabama.
This was told to me about ten years ago by a young man from Mobile who had been a lineman at Murphy High School. He was blonde, about 5' 10" maybe, and weighed more than 200 pounds. He actually wrote Gospel Music songs, and the MOBILE REGISTER carried a story after I knew him saying that he had had a song published in Nashville.
This young man told me that he walked on at Alabama, and that one evening he was practicing across the line from E. J. Junior. He said that E. J. Junior hit him so hard that he found himself crawling in pain over to the very foot of Bear Bryant's tower. As he was writhing in pain on the ground there, who should come walking down the steps of the tower but Bear Bryant himself.
"Coach Bryant stopped and took a look at me and said, 'Many better men than you have tried and failed,' and then he walked off. That was my last day in Tuscaloosa."
This was told to me about ten years ago by a young man from Mobile who had been a lineman at Murphy High School. He was blonde, about 5' 10" maybe, and weighed more than 200 pounds. He actually wrote Gospel Music songs, and the MOBILE REGISTER carried a story after I knew him saying that he had had a song published in Nashville.
This young man told me that he walked on at Alabama, and that one evening he was practicing across the line from E. J. Junior. He said that E. J. Junior hit him so hard that he found himself crawling in pain over to the very foot of Bear Bryant's tower. As he was writhing in pain on the ground there, who should come walking down the steps of the tower but Bear Bryant himself.
"Coach Bryant stopped and took a look at me and said, 'Many better men than you have tried and failed,' and then he walked off. That was my last day in Tuscaloosa."
I still recall the 1st game I attended as a student after transferring to Bama ("coming home to Mama" as others have said 
) E.J. defended all three options of a triple option that KY ran. Never seen anything quite like that. Popped the FB, slid down the line quickly, covered the QB, & then tackled the RB who got the pitch. Granted, it was against a weak KY team, but still...the basic point of a triple option play is to make whatever the defender does be wrong. Only...they didn't know how to answer that particular player.
Congrats to E.J. Roll Tide!
) E.J. defended all three options of a triple option that KY ran. Never seen anything quite like that. Popped the FB, slid down the line quickly, covered the QB, & then tackled the RB who got the pitch. Granted, it was against a weak KY team, but still...the basic point of a triple option play is to make whatever the defender does be wrong. Only...they didn't know how to answer that particular player.Congrats to E.J. Roll Tide!
EJ also was one of my favorites. I used to live in Dayton and Central State was a very good football school at one time. Best of luck to him!
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