BleedGopher
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I can't imagine there are many coaches who still go back every year to the city/program they coached at two jobs ago to continue to raise money.
Per the Southern:
Former SIU Football Head Coach Jerry Kill was back in Southern Illinois Saturday for his annual poker run.
This year’s event began at Black Diamond Harley Davidson in Marion, and the poker run stretched to West Frankfort, Whittington, Murphysboro and Carterville.
About 500 motorcyclists braved the mid-90 degree temperatures to ride in the second annual Huck’s Ride for the Fund for the Coach Kill Fund administered by the Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation.
Kill created the Coach Kill Fund after a fight with cancer while he coached at SIU in 2006. He and his wife, Rebecca, have kept the fund alive even after Kill went on to be the head coach at Northern Illinois University, and the University of Minnesota.
“This is our home. Someday we will come back when we’re done coaching,” Kill said. “I wouldn’t be at the University of Minnesota if it wasn’t for what Southern Illinois did for me and the players that played for me.
“When we started it, I said it would never leave Southern Illinois and I have been a man of my word.”
Donations, registration fees, silent auction proceeds and a free gas for a year raffle raised money for the fund. Kill said the generosity of bikers is a constant his organization depends on.
“The thing people don’t understand is motorcycle riders … are some of the most giving people in the country,” he said. They have been doing this for a lot of years, so we appreciate it. It just shows how Southern Illinois helps Southern Illinois.”
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/c...cle_ecd908bf-ef4b-5f9f-b745-f772c3c0d94b.html
Go Gophers!!
Per the Southern:
Former SIU Football Head Coach Jerry Kill was back in Southern Illinois Saturday for his annual poker run.
This year’s event began at Black Diamond Harley Davidson in Marion, and the poker run stretched to West Frankfort, Whittington, Murphysboro and Carterville.
About 500 motorcyclists braved the mid-90 degree temperatures to ride in the second annual Huck’s Ride for the Fund for the Coach Kill Fund administered by the Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation.
Kill created the Coach Kill Fund after a fight with cancer while he coached at SIU in 2006. He and his wife, Rebecca, have kept the fund alive even after Kill went on to be the head coach at Northern Illinois University, and the University of Minnesota.
“This is our home. Someday we will come back when we’re done coaching,” Kill said. “I wouldn’t be at the University of Minnesota if it wasn’t for what Southern Illinois did for me and the players that played for me.
“When we started it, I said it would never leave Southern Illinois and I have been a man of my word.”
Donations, registration fees, silent auction proceeds and a free gas for a year raffle raised money for the fund. Kill said the generosity of bikers is a constant his organization depends on.
“The thing people don’t understand is motorcycle riders … are some of the most giving people in the country,” he said. They have been doing this for a lot of years, so we appreciate it. It just shows how Southern Illinois helps Southern Illinois.”
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/c...cle_ecd908bf-ef4b-5f9f-b745-f772c3c0d94b.html
Go Gophers!!