Eastern Kentucky head football coach Walt Wells suffered a cardiac episode back on August 28, one that nearly ended his life. In fact, if you ask his wife, Jen Wells, he was dead — at least temporarily.
A little over three weeks later, the 54-year-old coach is now back on the sidelines, and his story is being told.
“He was dead,” Jen Wells told Sports Illustrated’s Richard Johnson. “There was no ifs, ands or buts about it.”
Wells dropped to the floor in his office the morning of Sunday, Aug.