Southern comes to Duke in the middle of an interesting transition: former head coach Roman Banks is now the full-time athletic director and his assistant - former assistant - Morris Scott is now the interim head coach.
Banks had been doing both jobs for a couple of years but as we learned in these parts from Jim Valvano, it ain’t easy.
He did well as basketball coach. Southern is an HBCU in a football city (Baton Rouge) and state and that can’t be easy. You’re competing with much more lavishly funded basketball programs, all of which are also competing with LSU and other football programs around Louisiana.