Davis Islands, FL -- The memory of legendary Jesuit football coach Bill Minahan was forever placed in Tampa General Hospital's second transplant house on Thursday. A special room in that house, called "Coach's Corner," dedicated to the legacy left by "Wild Bill," who passed away late last year.
Minahan received a kidney transplant in 1986. During the next 27 years, Bill and his wife, Martha, championed the cause of organ donation and transplantation. He hosted an annual luncheon for LifeLink to raise funds for needy organ recipients.
The Coach's Corner is filled with pictures and mementos of his coaching career.
"This a room where you can read about him, and all that courage and enthusiasm, and go out there and face it," Martha Minahan told 10 Sports. "No one told him he'd get 27 and a half years, they told him he'd get 5. His intensity and enthusiasm just kept carrying him on."
"He continued to teach me right up until the day that he died," said Plant HS head football coach Robert Weiner, who played for Minahan. "For all that enthusiasm, and bravado, and macho of football, he had a peace."
