OT: Obituaries Thread

[MrNubbz]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/movies/charles-grodin-dead.html
Charles Grodin thought he was great in Midnight Run with Deniro,dry,deadpan sense of humor

[longhorn320]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/movies/charles-grodin-dead.html
Charles Grodin thought he was great in Midnight Run with Deniro,dry,deadpan sense of humor

I really liked Midnight Run as it was Grodin at his best

[MarqHusker]

Mark Eaton RIP.   I'll never forget the DV PSA he did with Bill Cartwright.   Wonder if his type of Center will ever be fashionable again in hoops.

[MaximumSam]

Man, a bicycle accident. Between him and Shawn Bradley, these centers need to stay off the bicycles

[MrNubbz]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/29/entertainment/singer-bj-thomas-death/index.html

BJ Thomas
if you remember the mid-60's through the mid-70's you certainly remember B.J. Thomas, who passed away today at the age of 78 from lung cancer. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" from the 1968 classic film, "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid" was his biggest hit; along with "Hooked on a Feeling," "I Just Can't Help Believing," "Rock and Roll Lullaby," "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" and numerous other ballads and gospel recordings. Sadly, a truly unique and inspirational artist pased away Saturday from Lung Cancer at 78.

[ELA]

The music box my parents bought me as a newborn, played raindrops keep falling on my head. I never knew what the song was until I heard it on the radio years after hearing the music box

[CatsbyAZ]

Wow, didn't realize how many troubles he had over the past decade.  Still, 37, wow.

Sad LA Times article yesterday elaborating on Colt Brennan's decade of struggles with brain trauma and declining mental health:


https://twitter.com/latimessports/status/1406639731811647490

[FearlessF]

Terry Donahue, the winningest coach in Pac-12 Conference and UCLA football history who later served as general manager of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, died Sunday. He was 77.

The school said he died at his home in Newport Beach after a two-year struggle with cancer.

Donahue has the most wins (98) of any coach in Pac-12 history and also the most wins (151) in UCLA history. He coached the Bruins from 1971-75, working as an assistant under Pepper Rodgers and then Dick Vermeil, before taking over as head coach at age 31 and serving from 1976-95. His first job out of college was as an assistant to Rodgers at Kansas for one season.

Donahue was the first to appear in a Rose Bowl game as a player, assistant coach and head coach. The Bruins won the New Year’s Day game in 1983, ’84 and ’86 during his coaching tenure. He was the first college coach to earn bowl game victories in seven consecutive seasons, from 1983 to 1989.

[MrNubbz]

AH,the good old days of CFB,RIP Coach

[CatsbyAZ]

Terry Donahue, the winningest coach in Pac-12 Conference and UCLA football history who later served as general manager of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, died Sunday. He was 77.

Donahue has the most wins (98) of any coach in Pac-12 history and also the most wins (151) in UCLA history. He coached the Bruins from 1971-75, working as an assistant under Pepper Rodgers and then Dick Vermeil, before taking over as head coach at age 31 and serving from 1976-95. His first job out of college was as an assistant to Rodgers at Kansas for one season.

Donahue was the first to appear in a Rose Bowl game as a player, assistant coach and head coach. The Bruins won the New Year’s Day game in 1983, ’84 and ’86 during his coaching tenure. He was the first college coach to earn bowl game victories in seven consecutive seasons, from 1983 to 1989.

LA Sports Radio read off these exact accomplishments as they announced Terry Donahue's passing last night. He left (1995) right as I was growing into college football, so I never had the chance to internalize his tenure or UCLA's glory days winning three Rose Bowls from 1982-1985.

The surprise in learning of his accomplishments is that 98 conference wins puts him atop the Pac 12 when east of the Rockies a number of coaches like Steve Spurrier or Bill Snyder can boast well over 100 conference wins while still getting overshadowed by the even bigger legends in their conferences.

[FearlessF]

Donahue squared off with Osborne 6 times from 1983 - 1994

the Huskers won five of the six, with a loss to Aikman in 1988 in Pasadena 

good series

[bayareabadger]

LA Sports Radio read off these exact accomplishments as they announced Terry Donahue's passing last night. He left (1995) right as I was growing into college football, so I never had the chance to internalize his tenure or UCLA's glory days winning three Rose Bowls from 1982-1985.

The surprise in learning of his accomplishments is that 98 conference wins puts him atop the Pac 12 when east of the Rockies a number of coaches like Steve Spurrier or Bill Snyder can boast well over 100 conference wins while still getting overshadowed by the even bigger legends in their conferences.

So this sent me down an interesting road. Here's where Donahue would rank on the current Power 5 lists:
SEC:T-6th (Behind Bryant, Spurrier, Saban, Vaught, Dooley)
Big Ten: 4th (Behind Hayes, Bo, Stagg)
ACC: 2nd (Behind Bowden)
Big 12: T-2nd technically 

The Big 12 is confusing becuase they don't list the records in the record book and becuase sin some ways it starts in 1996. It think the Big 8 adds three more (Switzer, Osborne, Snyder). If you add in the SWC, you get in only Royal. 

So not counting something like the Western Conference, you have Terry behind 14 men. Which is kinda insane to think about. Donahue coached a little more than 150 conference games, which is a whole lot. It's funny. Because of where I'm from, I associate his name with the 49ers more than anything.  

[OrangeAfroMan]

Spurrier also had 86 wins at USCe, don't forget.  So almost Donahue + his 122 at Florida.

[Benthere2]

Tanner Morgan's father passed this evening

was a heck of a nice guy by all accounts

fought a battle against a brain tumor