When Tennessee State president Glenda Glover called Eddie George early last year and asked him to become the university’s head football coach, he initially thought the idea was ridiculous.
After all, George had never been a coach before at any level. He had played football at the highest levels, winning the Heisman Trophy at Ohio State and going on to run for more than 10,000 yards in the NFL, but after retiring from the league in 2005, George had moved on from football to pursue other ventures.
George started a landscape architecture firm and a wealth management business.