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re: Is Bo Rein the last active SEC football coach to pass away?
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:20 pm to LSUGrad9295
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:20 pm to LSUGrad9295
Rex Dockery, etc., and I can't remember, Texas Tech or Memphis State, my brain is fricking gone
I believe there was some tie in for Rex Dockery with Bill Parcells, but I can't remember how or when or what
I'm probably wrong on that, but Parcells did follow Steve Sloan to Texas Tech, making Parcells part of the Bear Bryant coaching tree
I believe there was some tie in for Rex Dockery with Bill Parcells, but I can't remember how or when or what
I'm probably wrong on that, but Parcells did follow Steve Sloan to Texas Tech, making Parcells part of the Bear Bryant coaching tree
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Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:22 pm to LSUGrad9295
Not SEC, but didn’t Northwestern’s Coach doe in off-season?
Randy Walker
Randy Walker
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:29 pm to ColdTurkey
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Thats wild. Did college or pro players smoke on the sidelines back in the day too or were only coaches allowed?
Barry Switzer smoked on the sidelines at Oklahoma
Lenny Dawson smoked on the sidelines as a QB for the Kansas City Chiefs
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:34 pm to LSUGrad9295
holy shite I can't believe I didn't know this 
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:36 pm to LSUGrad9295
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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.
and Hoepener was a damn great coach
he was the answer for Indiana and would have been coveted by huge schools
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:39 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Dockery and Parcells coached under Sloan at Vanderbilt and followed him to Lubbock. After the 1977 season,Sloan took the Ole Miss job, Parcells took the Air Force job and Dockery became the Texas Tech job. He then took the Memphis State job in 1981.
It was on THIS DATE in 1983 that he was killed in the plane crash.
It was on THIS DATE in 1983 that he was killed in the plane crash.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:45 pm to BZ504
yes and he was a good coach
part of the Miami Ohio Cradle of Coaches if I'm not mistaken
part of the Miami Ohio Cradle of Coaches if I'm not mistaken
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:50 pm to I-59 Tiger
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It was on THIS DATE in 1983 that he was killed in the plane crash.
I was only in the 3rd grade, but I had started seriously following football and basketball and they were the local team. Dockery’s untimely death was obvious huge news here, but not so much nationally in the days before ESPN really took off. I knew his coaching stops, but I wasn’t aware of the connection with Parcells before.
Dockery did a really good job turning Memphis around. So much so that it took Ray Dempsey half a season to really start fricking it all up again. It’s amazing how little Memphis’ administration gave a shite about football for 50 years.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:51 pm to I-59 Tiger
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Dockery and Parcells coached under Sloan at Vanderbilt
I should know this because I know a guy named Ray Barnes who ties it all in
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:52 pm to I-59 Tiger
like I said, my brain is toast
Merry Christmas my friend
Merry Christmas my friend
Posted on 12/12/22 at 10:58 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Joe Pa
Posted on 12/12/22 at 11:03 pm to MOS0311
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Holy shite, that's fricking awful. I can't even imagine...
Just six weeks prior to the Marshall plane crash, a plane carrying half of the Wichita State football team crashed and 14 members of the football team were killed.
Unbelievable that with the number of athletic teams that fly every day, two planes carrying teams would crash six weeks apart.
As you stated, "holy shite, that's fricking awful"
Posted on 12/12/22 at 11:39 pm to LSUGrad9295
There's a reason almost every P5 program keeps a "crash list" on hand.
Not sure if it was inspired by the Marshall incident or not but most schools keep a list on hand of replacement candidates ( inside and outside the program)Nobody wants to be caught with zero contingency plans in a worst case scenario.
Not sure if it was inspired by the Marshall incident or not but most schools keep a list on hand of replacement candidates ( inside and outside the program)Nobody wants to be caught with zero contingency plans in a worst case scenario.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 11:44 pm to LSUGrad9295
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we then had something to compare Rein' situation with.
I remember them saying in the SEC shorts special that the plane essentially flew back over the area of North Carolina that he had been living while at NC State before crashing into the Atlantic.
Posted on 12/12/22 at 11:49 pm to BThibodeaux
quote:That was the year after he left Tulane. I remember being at the Tulane game in Tulane Stadium that night. The word was going around because people had heard it on the radio. Sad night.
Jim Pittman
Posted on 12/13/22 at 12:58 am to LSUGrad9295
Joe Morrison, Head coach at South Carolina, died in 1989. Not in the SEC then.
Posted on 12/13/22 at 6:09 am to The Hurricane
quote:That's the way I remember it.
I remember them saying in the SEC shorts special that the plane essentially flew back over the area of North Carolina that he had been living while at NC State before crashing into the Atlantic.
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