One of them lost his wife and lost contact with his two children. They gave up on him. . . . The other young man has a health-challenged child and was unable to help his wife care for that child during that five years. They became estranged. It took a while to get back together.
It was a great moment. Not just for me. I knew what it meant for my team, the university, the state. It gave a lot of validation to what (Coach) Shawn Walsh was trying to accomplish.