R.C. Slocum is a Aggie legend, coaching the football team to their most successful run in the modern era, and also spending recent decades as an outstanding ambassador for Texas A&M. Earlier this week, he revealed that he had been undergoing tests at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston (a world-renowned cancer center).
“A couple of years ago, I asked my Facebook friends to pray for my son John Harvey Slocum who had a major heart event in Midland. God answered those prayers in a big way,” Coach Slocum said, “Today, I am coming again asking for prayers but these are for me.