Xavier University of Louisiana Athletics

•  Longtime XULA vice president and chair of its athletics committee
•  First president of the NAIA's Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (1981-82 academic year)
•  Credited with naming XULA's gymnasium The Barn . . . Rachal said, "This place looks like a barn" during a gym inspection by campus administrators prior to XULA reviving its men's basketball program in 1967
•  Oversaw XULA Athletics finances
•  Instrumental in the hiring of men's basketball head coaches Bob Hopkins and Denny Alexander
•  1949 XULA graduate
•  Born in 1925 . . . died in 2002 at age 76
•  Last name pronounced ruh-SHALL