The Making of a Champion: Success Is an Inconvenience. The Hard Truth about What It Takes to be Successful. Not Just on Game Day, But Every day! is an extraordinary book about football and life. Coach Joe Taylor is a legend in the football world. He has won 3 National Championships, 14 Conference Championships, 7 Bowl Games, and has a lifetime win-loss record of 229-89. He is respected with the likes of Eddie Robinson and Jake Gaither. More important than his success on the football field, he has coached and mentored thousands of young men from childhood to manhood. He has coached in historically black colleges and has helped many young men, who might have gone down the wrong path, to graduate and become successful contributors to society. These individuals have been part of Coach’s life and share their personal stories with us in the book. This is a must-read for anyone who loves the game, sports, coaches the game, or has children involved in sports. In addition, anyone who wants to take his or her life to the next level will find incentive and direction for doing so in this book. Coach Taylor has been inducted into three separate Hall of Fames. Learn from a legend and an expert—read this book!

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Coach Joe Taylor is a legend in college football. As a Head Football Coach he has transformed the lives of thousands of young men over his thirty years of coaching. He was head football coach at Florida A&M University since 2008, and prior to FAMU, he was the head football coach at Hampton University from 1992 to 2007. He has won twenty-one conference championships and four black college football national championships (1995, 2004, 2005 and 2006) while at Hampton. He was also the head coach at Virginia Union University from 1984 to 1991 where he won one conference title on his way to an overall record of 60-19-3. Under Coach Taylor's direction, a number of great Hampton players went on to the National Football League and Canadian Football League: Kendall Langford, Justin Durant, Nevin McCaskill, Alonzo Coleman, Zuriel Smith, Jerome Mathis, Marquay McDaniel, Onrea Jones, Travarous Bain, Darian Barnes, Corey Swenson, Cordell Taylor and Isaac Hilton. Coach Taylor has been elected to three Hall of Fames: Western Illinois University, Virginia Union University, and The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Conference.

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