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[RD2191]

Excellent article on what it takes to be a coach. The dedication. The toll it takes on your body physically and mentally. What it takes from others around you. New found respect for the sustained excellence that is the Spurs and the entire team.

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12636370/former-utep-coach-jason-rabedeaux-death-remains-mystery

[RD2191]

"JASON RABEDEAUX DIED without shoes in the back seat of a Saigon taxicab, somewhere between his apartment tower on the bleak outskirts of the city and a hospital with a name he couldn't pronounce. He wore a red T-shirt. Blood loss had left him white and cold. Nobody expected this -- a suspicious gash on his arm and a cut on his head -- but people had been expecting something. For the past two weeks, he'd been acting strange. In the hours before he died, in the locker room dressing for what would be his final game, he'd struggled to get his belt through the loops of his pants -- such a long fall for a man once considered among the hottest young college basketball coaches in the States, a man with charisma and drive yet broken in ways he could never win enough to fix. When the last game ended, tears welled in his eyes as he called it one of the biggest victories of his career, which had taken him in the past 15 years from head coach at UTEP to a series of international teams around Asia and the Middle East, his paycheck growing smaller with each passing year."

[Thomas82]

EXCELLENT read!!

[RD2191]

EXCELLENT read!!
Yup, really had an impact on me. Felt I had to share for fans and even non fans of the game.

[Instigator]

Wow. Great post. Thanks for sharing this awesome story.

[spurraider21]

i think tony parker will make a great coach one day

[spurraider21]

:corn:

[RD2191]

Wow. Great post. Thanks for sharing this awesome story.
:tuYou're welcome.

[K...]

i think tony parker will make a great coach one day

I see him more as ownership, General management.

[K...]

I don't get it. What makes it great? Fat guy who over compensated for the people he's let down charms a Vietnamese hot girl, relapses to alcohol and dies mysteriously, but probably because of stress from alcohol addiction.


Oh and he coached some marginally relevant teams. Here's a picture of coach Crean and coach Sampson. Oh and maybe it was the Vietnamese mafia, maybe. Did we mention Vietnam? Did we mention the 20yr old Asian hottie ?

[RD2191]

I don't get it. What makes it great? Fat guy who over compensated for the people he's let down charms a Vietnamese hot girl, relapses to alcohol and dies mysteriously, but probably because of stress from alcohol addiction.


Oh and he coached some marginally relevant teams. Here's a picture of coach Crean and coach Sampson. Oh and maybe it was the Vietnamese mafia, maybe. Did we mention Vietnam? Did we mention the 20yr old Asian hottie ?
I feel bad for you if that's what you got from the article.

[Instigator]

I don't get it. What makes it great? Fat guy who over compensated for the people he's let down charms a Vietnamese hot girl, relapses to alcohol and dies mysteriously, but probably because of stress from alcohol addiction.


Oh and he coached some marginally relevant teams. Here's a picture of coach Crean and coach Sampson. Oh and maybe it was the Vietnamese mafia, maybe. Did we mention Vietnam? Did we mention the 20yr old Asian hottie ?

Another idiot. I'm sure ur a great guy though. :nope