Politics aside...RIP to Coach Gerald Jack

[Horse with no Name]

I bet he is riding in the car with Johnny again. Roll Tide Roll!
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He was a student of Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant and had the honor of completing a successful coaching career at his alma mater, the University of Alabama, where he stood beside head coach Gene Stallings as they won 70 games in seven years and went on to win the National Championship in 1992 against Miami in the Sugar Bowl. On game days, one of the highlights was when he and Johnny Stallings would lead the convoy of team and Bama fans in the lead Alabama state trooper patrol car, where Johnny would sound the siren when it was time to roll. He and Stallings would retire together and move back to Paris in 1997.

He loved his family, friends, students, players, coaches, fellow educators and administrators and frequently would inquire of individuals, “How is your attitude?” He had a genuine interest and smile for those whom he would encounter on this path called life. With a photographic memory, he had a natural recall of people, faces and names, and could speak extemporaneously on topics and details of people’s lives that would surprise even those to whom he referred. He did this without notes. His perspective was nurtured by his loving parents and through his strong Christian upbringing at Lamar Avenue Church of Christ.

He served in the U.S. Navy as an aviation ordnanceman from 1954 to 1956, where he was stationed in the Philippines at Subic Bay Naval Base aboard the aircraft carrier USS Boxer immediately after the Korean war, when it was still unclear as to whether the U.S. would be drawn back into conflict against China.