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re: LSU and Bama fans... a classic (for Tiger fans anyway)
Posted on 2/23/11 at 7:57 pm to aroussel3Tigers
Posted on 2/23/11 at 7:57 pm to aroussel3Tigers
I thought Rein was already named as head coach, and was on a recruiting trip when the plane crashed.
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Posted on 2/23/11 at 8:37 pm to USMC DAWG
I worked with Bama's Offense Left Guard (76-Adcock) for several years. Go to 2:40 on video and watch Marshall run right through him. 
I'll have to ask him about that one day. He told me once that Marshall was a beast. Now I see why. 
I'll have to ask him about that one day. He told me once that Marshall was a beast. Now I see why. 
Posted on 2/23/11 at 8:49 pm to USMC DAWG
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I thought Rein was already named as head coach, and was on a recruiting trip when the plane crashed.
This is correct. He just never got to coach the team. Never made it to the spring.
Posted on 2/23/11 at 11:06 pm to USMC DAWG
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I thought Rein was already named as head coach, and was on a recruiting trip when the plane crashed.
he was the coach and on a recruiting trip. he was in a new plane borrowed from nichols construction co. and a very experienced pilot. the oxygen system failed and both died in flight. the plane continued and crashes miles over the atlantic ocean. an air force plane was scrambled and it flew close enough to observe that both men were dead and followed the plane until it ran out of fuel. i know this because i had sold the pilot life insurance years before and my company paid off w/o a body based on the testimony of the air force pilot.
Posted on 2/24/11 at 3:59 pm to USMC DAWG
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I thought Rein was already named as head coach, and was on a recruiting trip when the plane crashed.
Correct. He'd flown up to Shreveport to visit a recruit. On the return trip, the pilot radioed that he was re-routing around a storm. Something happened after that and the plane flew due east all the way to the Atlantic ocean where Air Force planes observed it to run out of fuel and crash in the sea. No bodies were recovered. Speculation was that the cabin became depressurized at high altitude causing Rein and his pilot to pass out from lack of oxygen. Tragic. LSU paid for the college education of their choice for Rein's children.
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