Financial Tips: Discussing how College Athletes are now being paid millions of dollars.

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Gregory Green.

Coaching and mentoring are in Green’s DNA, and he concurrently serves as REACH Advisor and Head Men's and Women's Tennis Coach at Tuskegee University.

Since college, Green has been no stranger to hard work and has mastered being a student-athlete. He earned a Double Major in Psychology and Kinesiology from Winona State University and a Master's in Kinesiology from Ashwood University. He is the gold standard for any student-athlete.

Gregory L. Green Sr. has been an intricate part of athletic success on and off the field since 1995. While cultivating his coach’s acumen Green has humbly executed various roles in the collegiate athletic arena and has excelled in each capacity. Coach Green began his journey at Savannah State University in 1995 where he reveals that he is not just any coach. For the next four years this Cleveland native would serve as Defensive Coordinator for Football, the Judicial Affairs Coordinator, and the Head Men/Women Tennis Coach. Under Green the Women’s tennis program flourished toting the following accomplishments: the highest team GPA in the SIAC four times; SIAC Tennis Champs three times; and three NCCA Tennis Tournament appearances. While at Savannah State Coach Green’s prowess did not go unnoticed, he was the SIAC Conference Coach of the Year three of his four years there.

Green’s career would lead him to Tuskegee University in 2000 where he served as the Compliance Officer, Defensive Coordinator for Football, and the Head Men & Women Tennis Coach. While at Tuskegee for the next five years Coach Green’s legacy of success still reigned true on the football field with a nationally ranked defense each year and four SIAC Conference Football Champs. This success was mirrored on the tennis courts with four SIAC Conference Tennis Championships; six NCAA Tennis Tournament appearances; five-time SIAC Highest Team GPA for Men and Women; and four SIAC Conference Tennis Coach of the Year. Green’s prowess was recognized in house as well as he has also received Tuskegee’s Coach of the Year Award.
Green has touched various institutions as he has coached football at Winona State University, Kentucky State University, Texas Southern University, Alabama State University and Miles College consecutively. Green’s Midas touch is ever apparent as he has been a part of eighteen championships as a player and coach earning him the name, “The King of Rings.”

Coach Gregory L. Green Sr. continues to cultivate the lives of student athletes as he serves as the Coordinator of Student-Athlete Support Service at University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2011. Here Green proudly totes the highest football APR and GPA in UAB history.

Green has three daughters – Kira, Keisha, and Jazmine along with one son, Gregory Jr.

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0:00.0	above and beyond their athletic scholarships. Coaching and mentoring is in his DNA and he is
0:06.8	concurrently serve it as reach advisor and head men and women tennis coach at Tuskegee University.
0:15.2	Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass Gregory Green. How you doing Gregory?
0:20.4	Hey, how you doing?
0:21.6	Sir, pretty good, my friend.
0:23.6	Tuskegee.
0:24.6	How did you wind up in Tuskegee?
0:26.6	Not saying that's a bad thing, but there's always a journey.
0:29.6	I mean, you not only have done other things coached outside of the world of tennis.
0:34.6	Give us a little of your background for we really getting into the interview.
0:41.1	Well, I started, I'm from Cleveland, Ohio.
0:44.8	I started playing football in Texas.
0:46.3	Sam Houston with Texas,
0:49.1	and basically coached college football at different places, Tuskegee, Alabama State, Kentucky State,
0:59.4	and also was coaching Savannah State, and I coached at tennis at both of those places too.
1:05.7	And now I'm back at Tuskegee coaching tennis, and I was the director of academics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
1:10.8	Awesome. Awesome. Now, you know, we, we're offline, we talked a little bit. I always talked with my guests prior to it, and I called him up, and he had a Houston number.
1:15.8	So you've been in that Houston community, and that's why I was born and raised now.
1:19.4	Talk us about your experience in Houston.
1:22.5	Oh, Houston is a beautiful place.
1:23.9	I call it four-in-a-liland-ens stuff right in Houston. That's right.
1:29.0	Houston is beautiful. I was at Texas Southern and that hospitality down there was great.
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