Long before Loyola men’s basketball head coach Porter Moser was celebrating a Final Four appearance and posing for pictures with Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, BVM, he was wiping up spilled beer and chatting with bar patrons.
Moser said he wanted to coach so badly, he volunteered to coach at his alma mater, Creighton University, without pay while working as a bartender to offset the cost.
Despite his commitment, the Naperville native said he hadn’t thought much about coaching before his junior year of college. He was studying business and marketing to one day go into his family business in lumber — none of his family members had ever coached before.