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Former Miss. State. HC Bob Tyler passes away

Posted on 4/28/24 at 4:23 pm
Posted by DownSouthJukin
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 4:23 pm
Former State HC from 1973-1978, former Ole Miss and Alabama assistant coach, passed this morning at age 91. Prayers to him and his family.

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Posted by anc
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 4:29 pm to
Coach of the 1974 team that received the most bullshite probation in SEC history.

Football player received a discount on clothes from a Starkville business that was offered to every MSU student.

Because it was a men’s clothing store, the NcAA deemed that it technically wasn’t offered to every MSU student so it was impermissible.
Posted by Godawgs4
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:57 pm to
Coach Tyler was a great football coach who got completely fricked by the NCAA.

He was also a great High School back in the 1960’s, especially at Meridian High where he was 20-0-1 with the two State Championships in 1966 & 1967. Coached Robert (Give em hell, Robert Bell) at MHS. He and Frank Dowsing were later the first black football players at State.
Also coached George Ranager & David Bailey at MHS. Both went on tremendous careers at WR at Bama under the Bear. Ranager was later a long time SEC football official who was well respected in the league for decades.


One last story. The QB at Meridian High in 1966 was Bob White. He was signed by Johnny Vaught at Ole Miss to be the QB of the future in Oxford. However he suffered a career ending knee injury in an all star game the following summer. That injury allowed a little known QB from Drew, Ms to later become the starter at Ole Miss. The name of the QB was Archie Manning.

RIP Coach Tyler. A fine man indeed and a heck of a good football coach.

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