WHY IT MATTERS. The DeKalb Daily Chronicle interviews retiring coach and Professor Walt Owens.

The greatest satisfaction is just meeting the people. I go to graduation every year. Going last weekend and watching the kids come in and leave four, five or six years later. Some of them look at me and say, “Coach, I made it.” This one
girl one time ran out of line and started crying because she didn't think she would make it.

Watching kids mature is fun. You mold some of them into adults.

And some you don't see mature until later.