Head Coach Chris Creighton — I am supposed to be game planning right now but I cannot focus on the task at hand. One hour ago our trainer notified me that our senior stud wide receiver, Geoff Walker tore both his MCL and ACL in Saturday’s game. I am devastated.

Geoff Walker is one of my heroes. He is the kind of person I hope to someday become. Geoff is one of the most committed, disciplined, focused, driven and humble people I have ever coached. Geoff Walker lives out all of the catchy slogans that people use when they talk about hard work and commitment. He is the real deal. He is one of the most dynamic leaders on a team full of leaders and he very rarely talks – he doesn’t have to. As a coach you want the seniors to understand that it is their last everything from the moment that their junior season ends. Few really can make themselves realize this reality early on. For most seniors it hits them at some point during the season and sadly, usually towards the end of the season.

Geoff has lived this season to the full all the way through. I still can’t believe that his career as an on the field player is over but I know one thing for sure – Geoff got more out of these first five games than most people get out of their career. He took nothing for granted. He enjoyed the hard work, he made real relationships with his teammates and he never took a rep off, never.

I truly believe that a person’s legacy is defined by who they are and not by what they did.Who you are as a person is more powerful and is more long lasting than what you “accomplish” during your career.

Geoff Walker is someone who will be remembered forever here in the Wabash football program as a man with total integrity, an unwavering work ethic, a passion for being his best and a seriousness that took those around him to another level. On top of all that he will be remembered as a phenomenal wide receiver who was having an All-American senior season.

There are many different reasons why I coach, but one of the reasons is that I get to be around a guy like Geoff Walker every day – a guy who inspires me and who I consider one of my heroes.