First impressions mean everything. Opinions are sometimes shaped by slick sound bites.
This is his world, where players seek affirmation, where media members demand explanation, where fans want sideline entertainment.
Walz is the University of Louisville's women's basketball coach.
And he stutters.
Sometimes, painfully so.
"I know the words I want," said Walz, in his first season after serving as Maryland's chief assistant for five years. "Sometimes, it just takes me a little longer to get them out."
The spotlight has grown larger - No. 4-seeded Louisville, reaching the first Sweet 16 in program history, faces No. 1 North Carolina today in the NCAA Tournament South Region semifinals - creating a potentially uncomfortable situation, one filled with microphones and flood lights.
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