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Mr. Willard Bailey
Head Football Coach
 When
Saint Paul’s College decided to re-build its CIAA Football Program, they didn’t
have to look far to find the right person to lay the foundation. In May of
2004, Saint Paul’s College named Willard Bailey
the head football coach and associate athletic director. Less than three
months prior to this announcement, Bailey had been inducted into the CIAA Hall
of Fame. He is the CIAA’s winningest football coach with a record of
211-112.
Bailey has coached for 31 years in CIAA territory, including 9 seasons at
Norfolk State University and 22 seasons (2 stints) at Virginia Union University.
He has accumulated six NCAA play-off appearances, seven CIAA Championships and
six Gold Bowl Championship titles.
In
his final season (2003) at Virginia Union University, Bailey coached the VUU
football team to elite status, recording the institution’s 502nd
win. The only other HBCU to reach the 500-win plateau is Tuskegee
University. Bailey ranks second in black college career football wins and
second among Division II career coaching wins.
In
over three decades of college coaching, Coach Bailey has mentored many
outstanding people. His student-athletes have gone on to become
professional athletes, obtain solid occupations and become pillars of their
communities. In recent years, several of Bailey’s former players have gone
on to the NFL, including Pete Hunter of the New York Jets.
A
native of Suffolk, VA, Bailey earned a bachelor’s degree from Norfolk State
University and a master’s degree in Education and Athletic Administration from
New York University. |
