Coach Harvey Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Longtime Mt. Vernon (Fortville) head coach Doug Peacock passed away today from cancer. Was a great coach and an even better man. He will be missed. 3 Quote
CoachShanley Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Coach Peacock truly cared about people and making a lasting difference in their lives. One of the best men I have ever known. He will be missed! 6 Quote
crimsonace1 Posted January 8 Posted January 8 When I first came to Hancock County in 1998, I went to Mt. Vernon to cover a football scrimmage on a Saturday afternoon. I'm on the sidelines shooting photos - mesmerized by this incredible old-school offense MV was running - and their larger-than-life coach approached me and growls "who are you?" I told him I was the new sportswriter with the local newspaper. He reached out and shook my hand - engulfing it in his gigantic right palm - welcoming me to the community. The first few times we talked, he was very measured with his answers to my questions, but we quickly formed a very good professional relationship, which quickly became a friendship, and those brief interviews became a lot of long conversations about football, education and life. Listening to him tell stories of coaching with Lee Corso in the USFL, bringing the WIng-T to Indiana when nobody had seen it, and his days playing at EHHS and IU, were a lot of fun. We talked often about faith, football, education, family, or anything else. When I decided to pursue a teaching career, our conversations often encompassed teaching philosophy. His football program at MV felt like a family, and I was always welcomed in even though I was a reporter and then a broadcaster, and I became friends not just with Coach P, but with several of his staff members and former players. His DC, Tim Adams (who founded the GID), and I became fast friends and began broadcasting games together when we both moved on professionally - he retiring from coaching, me moving on from newspapers to become a teacher. Another of his former assistants has remained a friend since those days, and we had the great fortune to teach and work together at New Palestine. Prayers to Desa, his children and the extended football family he built. There are no better people I've worked with in my three decades of covering high school sports than Doug Peacock. He was a giant of a person and a giant of a coach. He will be greatly missed. 5 Quote
Muda69 Posted January 10 Posted January 10 Nice story by Mr. Neddenriep in the Indianapolis Star: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2026/01/09/mt-vernon-football-coach-indiana-lineman-doug-peacock-died-thursday-at-age-68/88108025007/?tbref=hp 2 Quote
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