This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s print edition.
We’ve heard a lot recently about bad coaches, ones who curse, bully and even physically abuse their athletes, ones who give star players a free pass when they get into trouble with the law.
We need to hear more about coaches like Forrest “Frosty” Westering, a man who justly earned such accolades as “legendary” and “inspirational.” Westering, who died Friday at age 85, was all that –and more – to the legions of young men he coached in football at Pacific Lutheran University from 1972 to 2003.
Westering showed that a coach …
