Greg Hansen At the 1992 Territorial Cup, I walked onto the ASU sideline 90 minutes before kickoff to say hello to Sun Devil defensive coordinator Kent Baer, my long-ago high school friend and fellow Utah State Aggie.
Donnie went to Locke High School, teammates with future Hall of Fame baseball players Ozzie Smith and Eddie Murray. He didn’t have enough money for his own baseball cleats, so Ozzie gave him his.Donnie became such a prominent athlete at Locke High that the Detroit Tigers offered him a contract. Instead, he chose football, enrolling at Santa Monica Junior College where Snyder spotted him and recruited him to become an Aggie.
A few weeks later, I was assigned to cover the Rose Bowl, where I hoped to interview Donnie and write about his impressive football career and how his rise to the top paralleled that of the Sun Devils.That’s when I lost track of Donnie. He left ASU and soon was coaching for another ex-Aggie, Brian Billick, as the Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV.
Finally, last winter, I read that Donnie had returned to Tempe and would be the defensive coordinator for Edwards, something of an around-the-world coaching tour. At 65, Donnie had agreed to go back to college to help pick up the pieces of what appeared to be a splintering Sun Devil program.Donnie Henderson has coached more than 400 football games since his days as an All-Century cornerback at my alma mater.
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