Shoate struggled with drug addiction and spent some time in prison before dying of AIDS at age 46 in 1999 in his home town of Spiro, OK.
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He was an assistant at Oklahoma from 1968 to 1981, coaching such linebacking greats as Rod Shoate, George Cumby and Daryl Hunt.