Image Trace turned gray?

I'm working on an assignment for my concept stratagies class were we have to design a logo for assigned company. My logo needs a brushed look to it that i could only recreate with image trace. Completely new to this technique and so is my professor. Here's the issue:
Scanned in my tight pencil logo design and saved as a jpeg since there was no other option
Opened in Illustrator and used image trace... default everything except the threshold is set to about 102 or so to get the brushy look... also it's black and white
Extracted the image which gave me the vector that i needed
Selected the whole image to change the color to red and it turned gray.... that's not what I wanted...
Can anyone help me with this problem as soon as possible, I need to be able to change the color of this vector by 9/18/13...

Its possible the object still has its background. Try ungrouping or releasing the compound path. Remove any unwanted objects, then if necessary create a compound path. Keep in mind that any holes in that object is made of paths them selves and therefore require the compund path to create that hole. So when you release the compound path, you may be tempted to delete paths that are required for the overall object to look correct.

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