ESPN's Wright Thompson has written a lengthy piece about the life and unexpected death of Jason Rabedeaux, the man who was hired to replace a legend but left El Paso in disgrace.

Following a slide from one of the most promising young coaches in Division I basketball into a spiraling descent to more and more obscure basketball hinterlands, Rabedeaux passed away last year in Vietnam where he was coaching the Saigon Heat. In El Paso, we had kept up very sporadically with Coach Rab's strange post-UTEP career, but none of us knew all the details about his final years. Thompson writes:

JASON RABEDEAUX DIED without shoes in the back seat of a Saigon taxicab, somewhere between his apartment tower on the bleak outskirts of the city and a hospital with a name he couldn't pronounce.

[HERE] is the link to the article that goes in depth into the latter years of a man many of us knew and had, at one time, such high hopes for. It is definitely an interesting read for any Miner fan.

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