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re: Is Bo Rein the last active SEC football coach to pass away?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 8:45 am to ColdTurkey
Posted on 12/12/22 at 8:45 am to ColdTurkey
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Posted on 12/12/22 at 8:46 am to TxWadingFool
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I was trying to think back to the last major college or even professional coached that passed while active couldn't think of one since Marshall. Really remarkable stat given the pressure cooker lives those folks lead.
Randy Walker was Northwestern's head coach, and died of a heart attach right before the season. Pat Fitzgerald was promoted to head coach and continues to be the coach.
Terry Hoepener at Indiana also died from brain cancer while still coach, although I think he'd been on a medical leave for quite a while.
Those are the only ones I can think of that have been fairly recent.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 8:49 am to BooShaker
Riddel cleats. Weighed about a pound each.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 8:59 am to hogwildinhouston
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Terry Hoepener at Indiana also died from brain cancer while still coach, although I think he'd been on a medical leave for quite a while.
He missed a couple games in 06, then sat out spring ball of 07 and was going to be placed on medical leave for the 07 season, but he died in June.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 9:40 am to LSUGrad9295
Didn't Woody Hayes die right after he was fired??
Posted on 12/12/22 at 9:44 am to LSUGrad9295
I believe in 1982, Rex Dockery, head coach at Memphis State, died in a plane crash.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:24 am to Drebin
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I believe in 1982, Rex Dockery, head coach at Memphis State, died in a plane crash.
It was the off-season after 1983.
Memphis is in decent shape as a football program now, but they might have made a move upward a lot sooner if he had survived. He was by far the best coach they would have until Stobart a decade later. They were abysmal when Dockery got there and always played a tough schedule back then with multiple SEC opponents, but he went from two 1 win seasons to 6-4 his last year.
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Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:45 am to LSUGrad9295
Auburn lost a basketball coach in a hotel fire before he coached his first game. Incredibly sad.
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In 1978, Paul Lambert was hired from Southern Illinois to become Auburn's 15th head basketball coach. But before he could even hold his first practice, Lambert died in a hotel fire in Columbus, Georgia. In his memory, the Paul Lambert Memorial Trophy for leadership is presented at the annual Auburn basketball awards banquet.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:47 am to bayou prince
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Didn't Woody Hayes die right after he was fired??
No. He lived 9 more years until 1987.
Bear Bryant died in 1983 about a month after he coached his last game in the Liberty Bowl
Posted on 12/12/22 at 11:23 am to Auburn80
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Auburn lost a basketball coach in a hotel fire before he coached his first game. Incredibly sad.
That is crazy and a horrible way to go. I can't remember the last time anyone died in a hotel fire, but back then it was a little more common apparently.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:11 pm to BooShaker
Good ol’ Len Dawson. Cigarette and a Fresca.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:16 pm to SlickRickerz
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South Carolina’s Joseph R. Morrison died in 1989, while coaching, he collapsed and died in the offseason. USC wasn’t in the SEC yet though.
Yeah, he was only 51
Posted on 12/12/22 at 12:30 pm to LSUGrad9295
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No. He lived 9 more years until 1987.
Bear Bryant died in 1983 about a month after he coached his last game in the Liberty Bowl
The Liberty Bowl can have that effect.
Be safe Sam.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 1:45 pm to LSUGrad9295
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They now think it was similar to the situation with Payne Stewart's plane where it got to too high of an altitude and lost cabin pressure.
They knew the very next day that was what had happened.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 2:09 pm to LSUGrad9295
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I can't remember the last time anyone died in a hotel fire, but back then it was a little more common apparently.
In 2010 there was 4 college students from MUW who died in a hotel fire in Hoover. Fire was started by incense prayer sticks that were left burning by the Hindu maintenance man.
Not a football coach or SEC, but Wake Forest basketball coach Skip Prosser died of a heart attack in his office in 2007. Mere months after I toured their campus
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:09 pm to LSU Jax
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They now think it was similar to the situation with Payne Stewart's plane where it got to too high of an altitude and lost cabin pressure.
They knew the very next day that was what had happened.
Yeah...I phrased that awkwardly. I meant to indicate that when the Payne Stewart situation happened, we then had something to compare Rein' situation with.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 5:22 pm to BooShaker
I thought that was a beer bottle Dawson had there, that would have been crazy if he had been rocking a smoke and a Brew during a NFL game....lulz..
Posted on 12/12/22 at 6:40 pm to Rebelinexile
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Good ol’ Len Dawson. Cigarette and a Fresca.
I knew him, but couldn't remember his name!...I'll be able to sleep tonight!
Posted on 12/12/22 at 9:51 pm to LSUGrad9295
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Yeah...I phrased that awkwardly. I meant to indicate that when the Payne Stewart situation happened, we then had something to compare Rein' situation with.
Gotcha.
Yeah I remember the Payne Stewart thing playing out in real time. I was at work and told a few different people all about Bo Rein and how it was the exact same thing. Crazy shite
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:12 pm to MOS0311
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Holy shite, that's fricking awful. I can't even imagine..
They made a movie about it with Mathew McConaughey.
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