Growing up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the 1990s, Robert Gillespie was always drawn to the hip-hop music of the band Run-DMC. From the University of Florida, where he played running back from 1998-2001, to coaching stops at South Carolina, Oklahoma State, West Virginia and Tennessee, Gillespie's hardware of any given era—from tape cassettes to iPods to a cell phone—was loaded with an inventory of songs from It's Tricky to Walk This Way.
So imagine the juice Gillespie felt one night in 2015 in Knoxville's Neyland Stadium when highlights of his Volunteer running backs were shown juxtaposed to the music of a favorite band.