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re: Remembering Bo Rein who died on this date in 1980.
Posted on 1/10/25 at 4:02 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 1/10/25 at 4:02 pm to blueridgeTiger
pretty sure my dad still has that hat
trucker hats before they were cool
trucker hats before they were cool
This post was edited on 1/10/25 at 4:03 pm
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Posted on 1/10/25 at 4:14 pm to blueridgeTiger
Yes. I was a freshman at LSU.
Posted on 1/10/25 at 4:27 pm to blueridgeTiger
Pretty sure the guy with the stache and fro behind him is Danny Simar, aka, Jim Nasium (morning show dude from WFMF).
This post was edited on 1/10/25 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 1/10/25 at 7:23 pm to Tiger Ugly
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He coached four years at NC State and had a 27-18-1 record and best finish was third in the ACC in those 4 years.
So SEC Storied lied about NC State winning the ACC in '79?
Posted on 1/10/25 at 7:39 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Thanks for posting that video.
I just rewatched. The part of his brother at 19 minute mark gets to me.
Posted on 1/10/25 at 7:59 pm to tigerfan84
ron higgins article
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Rein and Williams started their 15-hour day leaving Baton Rouge at 6:30 a.m. The only time they stopped moving was to eat. Their last stop was to visit Bobby Agnor, a recruit from Woodlawn who was already in the Tigers' fold.
Then Williams drove Rein to the Shreveport airport to await a private plane coming from Houston flown by an experienced pilot named Lewis Benscotter.
Rein hopped on the phone to talk to an East Coast recruit that Williams dialed up. While Rein was chatting, Benscotter walked in.
"A time or two before, the weather had been foggy, so I asked the pilot then about his plane," Williams said. He told me "If the commercial planes are flying, I can fly, because I've got all the instruments they do.
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Meanwhile, the Cessna Conquest 441 carrying Rein and Benscotter wandered off course as a line of storms appeared between Shreveport and Baton Rouge. The plane turned east and was eventually tracked out over the Atlantic Ocean by Captain Daniel Zoerb, an Air Force fighter pilot who could only see the red glow of the Cessna's cockpit but nothing else.
Zoerb made three passes at the plane about 500 feet away, giving all the standard intercept signals to get the plane to turn back. There was no response.
Finally, about 100 miles east of Cape Charles, Va. at 1:34 a.m. ET, Zoerb watched one of the plane's engines quit. The plane rotated and went into a 5,000-foot-per-minute nosedive before it crashed into the Atlantic.
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"That was the first time I ever escorted a plane to a crash," said Zoerb, who made one pass over the crash site and saw nothing but an oil slick.
The Federal Bureau of Accidents speculated that something happened to the cabin's pressurization system, causing Benscotter and Rein to pass out and die from lack of oxygen.
Posted on 1/10/25 at 8:13 pm to blueridgeTiger
My 3rd year at LSU. We were so excited to see what Bo was bringing & couldn’t fathom what had happened to him.
RIP Beaux.
RIP Beaux.
Posted on 1/10/25 at 8:22 pm to blueridgeTiger
This is really what the biggest step back LSU football ever had. He was legitimately the Saban of his era.
After the accident, infighting among alumni started as they weren’t prepared to make a new hire, good ole boy shite started and we went on a 20 year plus decline
After the accident, infighting among alumni started as they weren’t prepared to make a new hire, good ole boy shite started and we went on a 20 year plus decline
Posted on 1/10/25 at 8:26 pm to blueridgeTiger
Interesting fact. The mustachioed gentleman over Bo’s left shoulder is me.
Posted on 1/10/25 at 8:26 pm to TutHillTiger
Not counting the Arnsberger years, he was a great coach and my brother played for him
Posted on 1/10/25 at 8:43 pm to Tiger Ugly
quote:In his final season he won the ACC.
He coached four years at NC State and had a 27-18-1 record and best finish was third in the ACC in those 4 years.
Bo Rein
1976 3-7-1
1977 8–4 (Won Peach Bowl)
1978 9–3 (Won Tangerine Bowl)
1979 7–4 (Won ACC - Declined Bowl Invitation)
Posted on 1/10/25 at 8:43 pm to Cincinnati Tiigre
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Interesting fact. The mustachioed gentleman over Bo’s left shoulder is me.
Posted on 1/10/25 at 10:26 pm to nicholastiger
I bought one of those hats when I first got to LSU for grad school in '78 and wore it all three years I was there. It's now sitting on a shelf in my closet. Lots of great memories....
Posted on 1/11/25 at 7:26 am to TheBaker
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So SEC Storied lied about NC State winning the ACC in '79?
I mis-read the bio apologies, he finished third on his 9-3 season. The next year his fourth was 7-4 when they were first in the ACC. But they had a 6-4 regular season that year, lost by two TD's to Auburn who finished tied for third in the SEC that year (with LSU FWIW), and their bowl game win to get to 7-4 was over Duke. Only one ACC team finished the year in the top 20 that year and it was North Carolina at 15. NC State was unranked.
I can remember being a just a bit underwhelmed, and again the Veer thing was something I was not a fan of....but as a die-hard LSU fan as a high school freshman I was absolutely still hopeful. I did realize a lot of programs ran Veer offenses around that time so I was going to choose to be optimistic going into the season and be converted to a fan of Veer football.
This post was edited on 1/11/25 at 7:44 am
Posted on 1/11/25 at 9:57 am to blueridgeTiger
The airplane was owned by the father of one of my close friends.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:02 am to 777Tiger
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Tiger football would have been different.
quote:So words actually matter. The poster you quoted didn’t say better, he/she said different. By definition, football under Rein would have been different. There is no speculation there, but it is enjoyable to consider what “different” may have entailed under Rein.
no way of knowing that, pure speculation
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:09 am to blueridgeTiger
Wasn’t Bill Cowher, former Steelers coach, a star linebacker for Bo’s last team at Nc State?
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:27 am to MetArl15
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So words actually matter. The poster you quoted didn’t say better, he/she said different. By definition, football under Rein would have been different. There is no speculation there, but it is enjoyable to consider what “different” may have entailed under Rein.
everyone likes to cling to myths and what ifs, it was an exciting time, and the for the first time, at least in my lifetime, that we'd "gone outside of the family" to hire a head football coach, but this myth keeps on growing, Rein was an up and coming name, with a so so resume but everyone on here is certain he was going to be a Rockne/Bryant/Saban all rolled up into one and we would have dominated cfb for ages, I would have liked to have seen what he could have done here though
This post was edited on 1/11/25 at 10:31 am
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:43 am to Tiger Ugly
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He coached four years at NC State and had a 27-18-1 record
That's a 60% winning record at a school where football has not always been a priority.
For comparison purposes, Nick Saban achieved a 59% winning record at Michigan State.
Posted on 1/11/25 at 10:47 am to Cincinnati Tiigre
Looks very much like Danny Simar, who died a few years ago, I believe.
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