McCarney doesn't take long to recover from heart surgery

[Harry]

Everything was going great down at the North Texas football complex. The spring game was over, so now coach Dan McCarney could focus on the school’s first season-opening home game in more than a decade.

“You promote, you market, and you do everything you can to get everybody to come back to games all throughout the spring and summer, and then for 12 years in a row, North

Texas gets on a plane to open the season at someone else’s stadium,” said McCarney, who has been the Mean Green coach the past two seasons.

And those who wondered a few weeks ago if the former Iowa State head coach and Iowa assistant would be on the sidelines for that Aug. 31 game against Idaho don’t know this Irish-blooded Iowan very well.

“I can’t tell you once when I got knocked down and didn’t get back up,” said McCarney, who proved that by returning to his office just a week following heart bypass surgery.

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130503/SPORTS020602/305030077/1017/SPORTS06/Ex-Cyclone-coach-McCarney-doesn-t-take-long-recover-from-heart-surgery

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[PlummMeanGreen]

Michigan Wolverine Coach Bo Schembechler was younger than Coach Mac when he had his first bout with a heart condition, but coached many years with his condition.

Coach Schembechler had his first heart attack in 1969 on the eve of his first Rose Bowl as Michigan HFC.

He had two quadruple heart bypass operations, the first in 1976 and the second following his second heart attack.

Schembechler retired from coaching after the Rose Bowl game of 1990. He decided to retire at the relatively young age of 60 because of his history of heart problems and was succeeded by Michigan's offensive coordinator Gary Moeller, whom he handpicked.

On November 17, 2006, Schembechler collapsed in a bathroom at WXYZ-TV just prior to the taping of Big Ten Ticket around 9:15 am. He was taken to Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan, where he was pronounced dead at 11:43 am. At a press conference a few hours after his death, it was reported by his doctor, Dr. Kim Eagle of the U of Michigan Health System that his death was from the terminal stage of heart disease where the heart muscle itself does not respond to the pacemaker, a common cause of death for persons afflicted with severe heart disease.

Coach Mac has access to better heart doctors with dramatically better cardiac medicines & procedures than Coach Bo did back in his day.

We really need Coach Mac to get well and to get this football program well, too, beginning this Fall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Schembechler

Edited May 4, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

[Harry]

Mac is goingt to be fine God willing -- this isn't anything but genetics -- this guys is in better shape and working out more than 96% of this site. He will recover quicky and he will do his very best to succeed. He has already done a LOT to reinvigorate this program and for that I am extremely grateful. If you don't see that you are extremely blind! However -- if he can take the next step and take us to a higher level remains to be seen. I hope like hell he does it and will be the first to shake his hand. GMG