[4][5] Cador played baseball and basketball at Southern, leading the Jaguars in hitting in his junior season of 1972 at .393.
He arranged a scrimmage with the Braves, then managed by his friend Dusty Baker, and returned to Baton Rouge with a truck full of equipment for his team.
He has also spearheaded efforts to build an on-campus stadium, complete with lights, and ground was recently broken on a facility to house space exclusively for the Jaguars baseball team.
[6] To increase exposure, he has organized the Urban Invitational featuring Historically Black Colleges and Universities televised on MLB Network.
[2] He also held the distinctions of having coached the first Golden Spikes Award winner and Dick Howser Trophy to have played at a predominantly black school (Rickie Weeks Jr. in 2003) and the first NCAA Division I tournament game win by a black school.