Sunday, November 17, 2019
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Cheese was my Linebacker Coach at USD. To his family, we send our thoughts and prayers from YOTE NATION. There are so many fond memories of Cheese not only as a coach, but later as a friend. He would give you the shirt off his back or help in any way he could if you asked him. One of his great loves in Sports besides the YOTES was the Cyclones and the Pittsburg Steelers and whatever baseball taem Kyle was involved with. We visited on many a Saturday and Sunday about how good of a day it was or what we would have done if we were coaching. For all of his teammates at ISU and the reunion you had, it was all he talked about for quite awhile, he truly loved you guys!!! When he came to the YOTES reunion it was his older, but as he said better version of himself. He was in his old glory the entire weekend loud, towel around his neck and just being "Cheese" that we all loved and enjoyed being around.
There are so many stories of this "players coach", I'm not sure where to begin. He was a GA starting my Sophmore year and then became a fulltime coach the following year. One story I can tell you is this. It was two a days and we were done with parctice and we were heading to the Student Union to grab lunch. I caught a ride with Jim Sulentic and we went through the line and ate. When we got finished Cheese came over to our table. He said you two come with me. We both looked at each other, like holy crap, he is serious and looked maybe a little bit upset. So we proceeded to go outside with him. He said, Hood and Jimmy see that bike overthere, it mistakenly got left there from the Dome and needs to be returned. We said how do you know it was mistenkenly left there from the Dome? Cheese said, I rode it over here, you can't expect these knees to walk that far. He said, get that bike returned pronto to the Dome. We did and each noon meal for the rest of fall camp. He later got a bike of his own, at least we think it was his!!! RIP Coach, Love you! Tim Hood Captain and Linebacker for the 1986 Team.
