Tremaine Jackson: To Be Elite, You Must Play Elite Programs
Coach Tremaine Jackson speaks with Kyle T. Mosley of HBCU Legends about the reason Prairie View A&M will play elite FBS and FCS programs.
Video Transcript
And when I got here, I stood on the podium and said it is time.
And it is now time for us to measure our program against somebody else outside of our conference.
And in order to do that, you have to go play the nation's best.
To be an elite FCS program, you have to play elite people.
I don't control anybody else's situation.
But it's easy to sit and call yourself elite, and you don't play nobody elite, and you start thinking you're elite.
You gotta go play people and you can't get any warm-ups to game one, man, we, we, we had to go get it.
We've never gotten a warm-up to game one.
We used to open up with a, with a West game, SWAC game, rival game all in week one.
It don't get no more pressure than that.
This is actually a little bit of relief because at least it's not a Western division game, right?
True, true.
It is against a top 5 opponent.
Prairie View A&M has never beat a top 5 opponent.
The highest that we've ever beaten is a 6th ranked ramblin in the State Fair Classic, uh, a few years ago.
And so we have an opportunity to go and beat somebody ranked.
In their poll in the other poll, uh, and so it , it's, it's a great deal and it is a big, big game for us.
