Scott Reed -- Quarterbacks Coach, Stephen F. Austin State University
(as of football season 2004)
Kareem Reid -- Assistant Basketball Coach, Arkansas RiverCatz (ABA)
(as of basketball season 2006-07) Reid was named a player/coach for the Arkansas RiverCatz of the ABA in the early part of the 2006-07 season.
Bo Rein -- Football
Rein started his college career playing for and then
coaching under Woody Hayes at Ohio State University. Rein became a
regular member of the Ohio State coaching staff in 1969 before becoming
an offensive backfield coach at William and Mary under Lou Holtz in
1970.
In 1971, he joined the staff of Purdue University and then went to North
Carolina State when Holtz became head coach there.
In 1975, Rein went to Arkansas as the offensive coordinator. At the end of the season,
North Carolina State offered Rein the head coaching job. He kept it for
four years and went 27-18-1. During his time there, he took the Wolfpack
to win the Peach Bowl in 1977, the Tangerine Bowl in 1978 and his team
won the 1979 Atlantic Coast Conference championship.
Rein was hired as the then youngest ever head coach at LSU. He would
never coach a game there.
Rein's Cessna Conquest plane left Shreveport, La., on Jan. 10, 1980 for
what was to have been a short hop to Baton Rouge. But en route,
controllers lost contact with the pilot. The plane climbed to 41,000
feet, heading on a straight-line course to the Virginia coast. Military
jets intercepted the Cessna, but pilots could see no signs of life
within the cabin "only the glow of the instrument panel's indicator
lights". Three and a half hours after the flight began, the plane
fell out of the sky and crashed into the Atlantic. No debris or remains
were recovered. Although the National Transportation Safety Board could
not determine the cause of the crash, observers speculated that sudden
loss of cabin pressure played a key role.
The Niles (OH) McKinley High School Red Dragons play in Bo Rein Memorial
Stadium.
Nolan Richardson -- Head Basketball Coach / General Manager, Tulsa Shock (WNBA)
(as of the 2011 season) Nolan Richardson was named the
head coach and general manager of the new WNBA team in Tulsa on October
20, 2009. The Shock went 6-28 in 2010. Nolan resigned on July 9, 2011
after starting the season 1-10.
Richardson began his coaching career at Bowie High School in El Paso,
Texas. He then moved to Western Texas College, where he won the National
Junior College championship in 1980. He was the head coach at Tulsa from
1981 to 1985, leading Tulsa to the NIT championship in 1981. In 1985
Richardson became the head coach at the University
of Arkansas, where he gained national
recognition.
Richardson took the University
of
Arkansas to the Final Four three times, losing
to Duke in the semifinals in 1990, winning the National Championship in
1994 against Duke, and losing in the Championship game to UCLA in 1995.
He was named the National Coach of the Year in 1994. His teams typically
played an up tempo game with intense pressure defense - a style that was
known as "40 Minutes of Hell."
Coach Richardson is the only head coach to win a Junior College National
Championship, the NIT, and the NCAA Tournament.
From 2005 to 2007, Richardson served as the head coach of the Panamanian
National Team. In March 2007, Richardson was named as the head coach of
the Mexican National Team.
Nolan Richardson was born in El Paso, Texas. He played collegiately at
Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) and spent
two years under the future basketball Hall of Famer Don Haskins.
Nolan "Notes" Richardson III -- Basketball
(as of basketball season 2002-03) Lead Tennessee State to a 10-19 in 2000-01, his first year as a head coach. Was 23-45 in his time at Tennessee State. The son of former Arkansas Head Coach Nolan Richardson and former assistant coach at Arkansas.
Mike Ritchie -- Director of Football Operations, East Carolina University Pirates
(as of football season 2003) Ritchie, a graduate of Arkansas Tech, brings a strong coaching and academic background to his administrative post with the Pirates. He has served the past four years as the Razorbacks' academic counselor for football, acting as a liaison between student-athletes and faculty members as well as assisting with on-campus recruiting visits. He spent the first part of his career in collegiate athletics as a basketball coach as he served one season as head men's basketball coach at Arkansas-Monticello, two seasons as head women's basketball coach at Hendrix College, and two seasons as head women's coach at Christian Brothers University. He has also had assistant coaching stints in women's basketball at Arkansas Tech, Arkansas State, and Arkansas-Monticello.
Wayne Robbins -- Baseball
Robbins was the head baseball coach for the Razorbacks from
1966-1969, a position that he resigned after completing his doctorate in
the UA
Graduate School. He was also Associate to the Dean of Arts &
Sciences while at UA. On January 1, 1970, he joined the staff of Senator Strom
Thurmond (R-SC) as Press Secretary. After three years with Thurmond he
served on the staffs of Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt (R-Ark) and
Senator Bill Brock (R-TN). In 1974 he became Director of Federal
Programs for the Tennessee Department of Education in Nashville. Then
followed one year as Dean of Students at Chattanooga State Technical
College before assuming the Vice-Presidency of Belmont University in
Nashville in 1976. In 1984 he became President of the Cockroft
Foundation which he founded and established in Nashville. He retired
from that position in December, 1999.
During parts of these years Robbins was a baseball scout for the New
York Yankees and the California Angels.
Willy Robinson
-- Defensive Coordinator / Secondary Coach, University of Arkansas
Willy Robinson was named defensive coordinator and
safeties coach at the University
of Arkansas on February 6, 2008 and announced
his resignation on December 6, 2011.
Robinson is a 34-year coaching veteran, including stints as a defensive
coordinator in both college and professional football. He has 22 years
of experience at the collegiate level and has spent 12 years as an
assistant coach in the National Football League.
The defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers in 2004, he was
the secondary coach for the St. Louis Rams in 2006-07. He was the senior
defensive assistant and secondary coach in New Orleans in 2005 after
coaching the defensive backs for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2000-03.
He was also the secondary coach for the Seattle Seahawks from 1995-98.
In 1999, he was the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Oregon
State, where he coached the Pacific 10 Conference's top scoring and pass
efficiency units.
Robinson coached the secondary at the University of Miami before going
with head coach Dennis Erickson to Seattle. Robinson also coached with
Erickson at Oregon State and in San Francisco.
Before going to Miami, Robinson spent 14 years at Fresno State, his alma
mater, under head coach Jim Sweeney. At Fresno, he coached the secondary
(1980-86), outside linebackers (1987-89) and later the secondary again
along with handling special teams (1990). In 1988, he was promoted to
co-defensive coordinator and then served as the sole defensive
coordinator in 1992-93 before going to Miami for the 1994 season. Miami
played for a national championship against Nebraska in the 1995 Orange
Bowl.
He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Fresno State in
1978 and earned his first full-time position the following season as
outside linebackers coach at San Jose State.
The Fort Carson, Colo., native played two seasons (1975-76) at the
College of the Sequoias (Calif.) before transferring to Fresno State,
where he played defensive back in 1977-78 and earned first-team
All-Pacific Coast Conference honors as a junior and second-team honors
as a senior.
Stephen Robison - Student Assistant Coach, Baseball
Former Razorback outfielder Stephen Robison joined the Arkansas coaching staff for the
2008 season as the fifth-year student assistant for head coach Dave Van
Horn. Robison assisted Van Horn and hitting and outfield coach Todd
Butler with instruction of the Hogs' offense and outfield play. Robison helped setup and run
practices. He also assisted UA Director of Baseball Operations Clay Goodwin with
day-to-day administrative duties and was in uniform on game days.
Robison, an outfielder and sometimes second baseman was a four-year
letterman for the Razorbacks from 2004-07.
He was slated to graduate from the University
of Arkansas in May of 2008 with a degree in
kinesiology and minor in general business.
Sean Rochelle -- Defense Coordinator, Azusa Pacific University Cougars
(as of football season 2004) Sean Rochelle, a former
assistant coach at the University of Houston, University of Arkansas and
Clemson University, is now in his third season ('04) as the defensive
coordinator at Azusa Pacific.
The former director of football operations at Houston, Rochelle returned
to college football in 2001 after serving a year as an educational
consultant for New Urban Alliance based in Indianapolis, Ind.
Rochelle fashions an impressive blend of coaching and academics. Prior
to his season at Houston, he served 5 years as the coordinator of
Student Athlete Support Services at Arkansas. He has a doctorate in adult education and a master's
degree in higher education administration, both earned at Arkansas.
Rochelle played quarterback at NAIA-member University of
Arkansas-Monticello, from which he graduated in 1989, summa cum laude.
He was a two-time Academic All-American, twice an all-conference
selection and garnered Conference Player of the Year honors his senior
season.
Like Shinnick, Rochelle began his coaching career as a graduate
assistant coach on Ken Hatfield's staffs at both Arkansas and Clemson, beginning
at Arkansas
in 1989 and following Hatfield to Clemson the next season.
He returned to his alma mater in 1991 and served 3 seasons as
Arkansas-Monticello's defensive coordinator. The Boll Weavers advanced
to the 1993 NAIA semi-finals of the playoffs and earned a spot in the
Aztec Bowl.
Along with his duties on the field, Rochelle coordinates the Cougars'
recruiting efforts and teaches within the university's physical
education department.
Bobby Roper -- Football
An All-Southwest Conference defensive player at Arkansas in 1964
& 1965.
Bobby began his career as a graduate assistant at Alabama under Paul
"Bear" Bryant, then coached at Wichita State, The Citadel, Virginia,
Iowa State (at least 1972), Pittsburgh (1973-?), Tennessee (defensive
coordinator from 1977-79), Oregon State (early '80s), and Texas A&M
(early '80s). He retired from the coaching profession after the 1984
season.
Tom Rossley -- Offensive Coordinator, Green Bay Packers
(as of football season 2005) Originally named to his post January 26, 2000, the
55-year-old Rossley has had a long association with success during his
coaching career, a dossier that includes six seasons as a head coach at
the major college level and five seasons as an offensive coordinator.
Prior to joining the Packers, Rossley served on the staff of the Kansas
City Chiefs as quarterbacks coach in 1999. Under his direction, Elvis
Grbac finished with the AFC's fifth-best passer rating (81.7) and the
conference's second-best, third-down rating (89.3), the latter a key
component of the Chiefs' successful 39.5 percent third-down conversion
mark, the NFL's sixth best.
The Painesville, Ohio, native earlier had made his first foray into the
NFL in 1990 as the quarterbacks coach of the Atlanta Falcons.
In 1991, Rossley moved on to become head coach at Southern Methodist
University, where he had served earlier as an assistant coach. His
daunting assignment was to rebuild a program which recently had been
shut down by the NCAA's death penalty. After an initial 1-10 season, the
Mustangs posted a 5-6 record in 1992, the school's largest one-season
turnaround since 1968, earning Rossley Southwestern Conference 'Co-Coach
of the Year' honors in the process.
Later, between his second stint at SMU and his time in Kansas City,
Rossley enjoyed a two-year stretch with the Chicago Bears (1997-98),
beginning his first season as a talent evaluator in the team's personnel
department before finishing the season as wide receivers coach. In 1998,
Rossley oversaw the Bears' tight ends.
Also serving in the college ranks as an offensive coordinator, Rossley
first worked in that capacity during two seasons at Holy Cross (1986-87)
on the same staff with his current boss, Mike Sherman. Under Rossley's
guidance, the Crusaders went a combined 21-1, including an 11-0,
Division I-AA national championship season in 1987 that saw the team
lead the nation in both points (46) and yards (522) per game.
Rossley then held the same position for two seasons at SMU (1988-89),
his first stint at the university. Serving under Forrest Gregg, a Hall
of Fame offensive tackle for the Packers who later would coach the same
NFL team for four seasons, Rossley directed the Mustangs to the nation's
ninth-ranked passing attack in 1989.
Entering the college coaching ranks on a full-time basis in 1976 as an
offensive assistant at Rice University, Rossley had the opportunity to
work with future NFL quarterback Tommy Kramer, who later would enjoy a
14-year pro career with Minnesota (1977-89) and New Orleans (1990).
After a one-year stint as wide receivers coach at his alma mater,
Cincinnati, in 1977, Rossley returned to Rice for a second tour of duty
(1978-81), this time as the school's passing game coordinator.
Rossley's first professional coaching job would follow in 1982, when he
served as running backs/wide receivers coach for the Canadian Football
League's Montreal Concorde. After three seasons in Montreal, he moved
south to become offensive coordinator for the San Antonio Gunslingers of
the United States Football League in 1985. He later served a season
(1987) on the offensive staff of the Arena League's Denver Dynamite. A
standout player as a collegian at the University of Cincinnati, Rossley
was a two-year letter winner (1967-68) at wide receiver after beginning
his career as a quarterback. He garnered All-America honors in 1968
after ranking second in the nation with a school-record 80 receptions,
also setting the Bearcats' single-game records for receptions (13) and
receiving yards (254) in the process.
Rossley began his coaching career in the fall of 1969 at Chardon (Ohio)
High School. He later coached two years at Eastlake (Ohio) North High
School (1970-71) and three seasons at Lake Worth (Fla.) High School
(1973-75). A one-year stint as a graduate assistant at the University of Arkansas
came in 1972, a season that saw him work with future 17-year NFL
quarterback Joe Ferguson.
Kenny Roth -- Assistant Athletic Director (Marketing & Promotions), Murray State University Racers
(as of school year 2004-05) Roth, a former men's
basketball assistant for the Racers, is beginning his second year
(2001-02) as the director of the RACER Foundation.
He has spent the last five years in a managerial role at Continue Care
of Murray. Prior to entering the home health care industry, Roth served
an assistant coach under Scott Edgar at MSU from 1991-95.
Prior to his coaching stint at Murray State, Roth was an assistant coach
at Georgia State, where he helped lead GSU to the NCAA Tournament in
1991. In addition to coaching at Murray State and Georgia State, Roth
also coached at Armstrong State College and North Greenville (S.C.)
College.
He began his coaching career as a student assistant coach at his alma
mater, the University of
Arkansas. A 1985 Arkansas graduate, Roth coached
under both Eddie Sutton and Nolan Richardson.
Born March 23, 1962 in Little Rock, Ark., he graduated from Harrison
High School in 1980. His father, Jim Roth, was a three-year letterman in
football at the University of
Arkansas, starting at tackle as a senior on
the Razorbacks'
1954 Southwest Conference championship team.
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