HAMPTON — Fred Kaiss, the man charged with revitalizing Hampton University's offense and its fortunes, may be considered something of a miracle worker now. Early in his coaching career, though, it was a different story.

In 1990, Kaiss became the head football coach at Southwestern High School in Baltimore, a school that hadn't won a game in three seasons. The team went 5-4 in Kaiss' first year and 7-3 the next, but Kaiss' players didn't readily accept an outsider who'd coached at two other Maryland schools but had no previous experience at Southwestern.

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