Inside Quinn Gray's first three months as FAMU football's head coach
Quinn Gray Sr.’s first months as FAMU football’s head coach include establishing a culture, team building, and spring training camp. He reflects.
When Quinn Fordham Gray Sr. got the call to become Florida A&M’s 20th full-time head football coach , he was inheriting a program that many would consider had fallen off the ledge. The Rattlers had just gone 5-7, their first losing season since 2017 .
It was a far cry from two years prior, when the storied football team captured its 17th national championship after claiming its 16th Black College trophy by winning the 2023 Celebration Bowl over Howard . So FAMU called on one of its favorite sons after the Rattlers looked non-venomous in one of their worst seasons in recent memory. FAMU signed its Hall of Fame quarterback to a five-year, $1.
4 million contract on Dec. 23, 2025. The Fort Lauderdale native resigned from his NCAA Division II head coaching job at Albany State to ‘Restore the Strike’ for the Division I Football Championship Subdivision team.
“It’s all a process. And we know that,” Gray said. “Setting the standard and the groundwork for what it is that we’re looking for in terms of that proverbial word ‘culture.
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