Some called it "the worst football program in the country." Bobby Rome wasn't daunted.
Posted Nov 15, 2018
Bobby Rome was told that succeeding as head football coach at Virginia University of Lynchburg was impossible. “They called it the worst football program in the country,” Rome remembers people telling him. But Rome, a former star quarterback at Granby High School, didn’t let that deter him. VUL is a small, private and historically black college in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(Daily Press)
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