Former Tar Heel Gene Robinson named head football coach at Memphis high school

Posted Jun 6, 2017
Gene Robinson has been on one side of the one football's most passionate neighborhood rivalries. And now he'll be getting a chance to view it from the other. Robinson — who starred at linebacker at Whitehaven before going on to a successful career at North Carolina — was recently named head coach at Fairley. (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

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