http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/sports/baseball/10transplant.html?_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=SP-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-WFB-021011-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=clickHis father, Keith, had another set of priorities: Who is this coach, Tom Walter? Will he look out for my son?
Keith Jordan dug back to the coach’s previous tenure at the University of New Orleans. He discovered that, even though Hurricane Katrina had left Walter’s home in 12 feet of water, attention to his team’s needs never wavered.
Walter supervised the players’ temporary relocation to the campus of New Mexico State. And he vowed to assist anyone weighing a transfer to another college.
“A lot of coaches wouldn’t have done that,” Jordan said Wednesday.
Far fewer would do what Walter did this week: donate a kidney to a player. Among the many questions Jordan had posed about the coach, one had never occurred to him: Would he part with a vital organ if his son needed it?