An Ode to Niumat
An Ode to Niumat Ken Niumatalolo is the best head ball coach in the history of service academies. Every article written should have started with the sentence above. It isn’t particularly close either. To compete on a national level for over a decade with the restrictions and limitations of a service academy in the 21st century does not, under any circumstance, deserve a firing. He deserves better. I hope this is one small way for him to get the respect he earned . In high school I thought maybe I would have a shot to play for Coach Ken. It didn’t work out, but I got to know him in another way. Two or three times a week at lunch, Coach Ken played tennis on the courts behind our dorm. On my way to class, I sometimes walked by and talked to him about the previous or upcoming game. It was never serious, not like I figured out how to beat an opponent’s scheme or anything, just some fun moments usually trying to convince him to move DJ Sargenti to linebacker (a decision that worked out