For several days last November, Steve Tate did little else but watch his son die. The hospital room felt cold to him, and the outside world dim. He thinks he stayed in that room for five straight days before he decided to leave. And he doesn’t remember why he went downstairs, only how it changed him forever.
In the lobby of Primary Children’s Medical Center, Tate, the former University of Utah safety, spotted a familiar face. Reno Mahe, the new running backs coach at BYU, was surrounded by family, eating dinner and waiting for their own heartbreaking news.