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Football Officiating => NCAA Discussion => Topic started by: TXMike on May 12, 2016, 10:28:14 AM

Title: RIP Doug Rhoads
Post by: TXMike on May 12, 2016, 10:28:14 AM

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/15502279/remembering-doug-rhoads-former-acc-coordinator-football

From the story...

Unfortunately, Rhoads also learned to keep an even keel the hardest way possible. He lost his son, Randy, in an accident when the kid was a college student off on spring break. "If you can live through losing a son," he once told me, "then being called an idiot by a football coach because you might have missed a pass interference call? That's a damn cake walk."

Title: Re: RIP Doug Rhoads
Post by: Rulesman on May 12, 2016, 11:09:56 AM

Quote from: TXMike on May 12, 2016, 10:28:14 AM

Unfortunately, Rhoads also learned to keep an even keel the hardest way possible. He lost his son, Randy, in an accident when the kid was a college student off on spring break. "If you can live through losing a son," he once told me, "then being called an idiot by a football coach because you might have missed a pass interference call? That's a DARN cake walk."

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Title: Re: RIP Doug Rhoads
Post by: HLinNC on May 19, 2016, 02:32:16 PM

I didn't realize he had passed until I was skinning through the Raleigh paper online yesterday.  Sorry to hear.   Met him at a clinic a few years back.