An unprecedented crisis hit New Orleans in 2005. Hurricane Katrina had made landfall. The city was underwater. Chaos was taking over.
Nearly all of the city's residents were displaced, the players and staff of the University of New Orleans's baseball team among them. Many of them had nowhere to live, nowhere to go and no blueprint for what came next.
Privateers coach Tom Walter combed through his Rolodex, desperately looking for a place that would take the program in. UNO's season was hanging by a thread, and its salvation came from the last place Walter ever expected.
That place was New Mexico State.
"(Walter) was worried about the program not surviving it," said Rocky Ward, the Aggies' baseball coach from 1997-2000 and from 2003-14. "He told me, 'We need a cool location to take our kids.' And he thought Las Cruces might fill that bill.
#place #came #orleans
Nearly all of the city's residents were displaced, the players and staff of the University of New Orleans's baseball team among them. Many of them had nowhere to live, nowhere to go and no blueprint for what came next.
Privateers coach Tom Walter combed through his Rolodex, desperately looking for a place that would take the program in. UNO's season was hanging by a thread, and its salvation came from the last place Walter ever expected.
That place was New Mexico State.
"(Walter) was worried about the program not surviving it," said Rocky Ward, the Aggies' baseball coach from 1997-2000 and from 2003-14. "He told me, 'We need a cool location to take our kids.' And he thought Las Cruces might fill that bill.
#place #came #orleans
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