Skip Prosser, the head of the Wake Forest men's basketball team died from an apparent heart attack yesterday. I was in the know before it became public knowledge. See, two of my best friends' husbands work for the athletic department at Wake. Steve was home doing daddy duty while Chris was at work when he got the call. I was home today, so Seth and I went over to watch the girls. After another hour or so the local and national news were reporting that Prosser had passed. Coincidently, Melissa's husband, Ken, was also doing daddy duty, but his mother was able to help him. Good thing, but I don't think I could handle five kiddos under the age of three!
Coach Prosser was a good man. I think he taught life skills to those boys, and not just basketball skills. We would always listen to post-game reports laugh about the players starting most sentences with, "coach says". Going to the games just won't be the same next fall. I just saw a nice photo montage online. (For you UNC fans, there is a good picture of Skip and Roy.) They say people rolled the quad in his honor last night (something he used to help do), Chris Paul and Justin Gray were there.
Please pray for Coach Prosser's family. In the press conference last night they said his wife was on the road in Ohio without a cell phone, that they had the highway patrol looking for her to know avail, and they finally got ahold of her at the Cincinnati airport.
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