 Former T. C. Williams High School football coach Herman Boone, whose hiring was featured in the film "Remember the Titans", compared Jeffries’s hiring to that of Jackie Robinson signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.On December 2, 1986, Wichita State President Warren Armstrong announced that the university would no longer sponsor football due to the financial strain the program places on the university.On May 16, 2009 the Wichita State University alumni association held an all football players reunion at Cessna Stadium.