Overview

Robert "Bo" Rein's football pedigree included playing under Woody Hayes; coaching under Lou Holtz and Frank Broyles; and bringing innovation, youthful exuberance, and an ACC title to NC State before LSU hired him after the 1979 season. But Rein met an untimely death in a plane crash before ever coaching the Tigers, a tragedy that devastated his family and friends and left so many wondering, "What might have been?"