May Commencement 2008

Joseph C. Crosby, Jr. CEO/President of Coach’s Low Country Brands and owner of T-60 Grill Restaurant has received North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Alumni Excellence Award. Crosby was presented the award at the university’s Annual Spring Commencement on May 10.

Crosby received his B.S. degree in business administration from N.C. A&T in 1977. After graduating, he joined the management trainee program at City National Bank and soon rose to the position of Personal Banker. In 1979, he joined the American Football Association as the defensive captain and team representative for the Carolina Storm Professional Football for Wachovia Bank and Trust Company. This position initiated his long-term coaching career that would have him holding positions at several universities as defensive coordinator, assistant coach and eventually a head coach position at Morris Brown College.

In 2001, after 30 years of coaching and playing football, Crosby retired and he and his wife Kristina relocated from Atlanta to Fairplay, S.C. in a home on the shore of Lake Hartwell. On Mother’s Day 2003, they opened the T-60 Grill, and four months later added the Low Country boil to the menu. Crosby had the seasonings used in the Low Country Boil developed and packaged for restaurant/foodservice wholesale buyers and retail sales. Today Coach’s Low Country Boil seasoning can be found on the shelves of Wal-Mart and Bi-Lo Grocers and in the products of Cargill, McClancy Seasoning Co., and naturally fresh dressings, sauces and dips.

In 2006, the Crosby’s created The Joe and Kristina Crosby Education Foundation, a non-profit, 501 C (3) corporation. The foundation is committed to supporting students and teachers in K-5 programs and in providing tuition assistance to post secondary students studying in culinary, hospitality, and business or management programs.