A GREAT Coach Is Dead

sbl_admin · 04-05-2007, 07:41 AM

Eddie Robinson, the legendary Grambling State University coach who won 407 football games and helped launch the Bayou Classic while tutoring pioneering quarterbacks James Harris and Doug Williams, has died. He was 88.

rhertz · 04-05-2007, 01:15 PM

Eddie Robinson seems to be a really good guy that truly touched many lives in a positive way. I think that this is the kind of person the African American community needs as a role model instead Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. I have no idea but I bet that Bill Cosby liked or would have liked Robinson, what he accomplished, and how he accomplished it.

Pocahontas · 04-05-2007, 07:29 PM

This was a fine man indeed! My grandfather, a former Lincoln Parish sheriff, and Mr. Robinson were friends from different backgrounds. They both helped keep the peace in Ruston and Grambling back in the day. It meant alot to me and my mother that Eddie although in poor health continued visiting my grandfather in the nursing home during the high sheriff's last days! He will be missed!
Condolences to his family and the GSU community!

sbl_admin · 04-09-2007, 11:49 AM

A new story has been added to the "Read More" section of this topic, as follows

KTBS -- Apr 9 2007 11:49 AM
Robinson to lie in state at Capitol

04-05-2007, 07:41 AM	#1
sbl_admin Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 1,965 Rep Power: 253	A GREAT Coach Is Dead Eddie Robinson, the legendary Grambling State University coach who won 407 football games and helped launch the Bayou Classic while tutoring pioneering quarterbacks James Harris and Doug Williams, has died. He was 88.

04-05-2007, 07:29 PM	#3
Pocahontas SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,691 Rep Power: 265	A great man indeed! This was a fine man indeed! My grandfather, a former Lincoln Parish sheriff, and Mr. Robinson were friends from different backgrounds. They both helped keep the peace in Ruston and Grambling back in the day. It meant alot to me and my mother that Eddie although in poor health continued visiting my grandfather in the nursing home during the high sheriff's last days! He will be missed! Condolences to his family and the GSU community!

04-09-2007, 11:49 AM	#4
sbl_admin Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 1,965 Rep Power: 253	Updated News Story A new story has been added to the "Read More" section of this topic, as follows KTBS -- Apr 9 2007 11:49 AM Robinson to lie in state at Capitol

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04-05-2007, 01:15 PM	#2
rhertz SBLive! Veteran Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,834 Rep Power: 287	Eddie Robinson seems to be a really good guy that truly touched many lives in a positive way. I think that this is the kind of person the African American community needs as a role model instead Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. I have no idea but I bet that Bill Cosby liked or would have liked Robinson, what he accomplished, and how he accomplished it.

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