Prairie View A&M head coach Tremaine Jackson is intentional with every little thing he does in his objective of creating the Panthers a famend soccer program.
That features having his weekly coaches’ present practically an hour away in Houston, Texas’ Third Ward.
“Once I first bought right here, individuals mentioned we didn’t do sufficient in Houston, the place our alums dwell,” Jackson instructed the Houston Defender Community’s Terrance Harris. “Getting individuals out to the Hill through the week was sort of powerful, so I mentioned we’ll come to them. We are going to come to wherever they’re. We don’t need there to be any excuse about why individuals aren’t supporting us, not only for soccer however all of our applications.”
The present takes place at Bar 5015, a preferred Black-owned bar the place Jackson and co-hosts Karl “King” Mayes and Jaylyn Cole talk about all issues Prairie View soccer. It’s not a shock that Jackson needed his present to be a mere mile away from bitter rival Texas Southern, who PVAMU defeated 22-21 on this 12 months’s Labor Day Traditional.
“It’s the place it’s. I can’t change the situation,” he mentioned. “I feel we had been looking for locations that folks frequent, create an environment for our individuals. I feel everyone who went to high school someplace involves 5015, so it actually didn’t matter the place it was for us. It wasn’t like we did that on function. It simply labored out that approach.
“But it surely’s the battle for Houston. This 12 months, Houston belongs to us, and we wish to take full benefit of that.”
