BOWLING GREEN — When the phone call came earlier this year, Mickey Cochrane must admit he was in no hurry to answer it.
“Unfortunately,” the 93-year-old Bowling Green State University legend said, “all of my messages lately have been regarding prescriptions or doctors’ visits.”
He then laughed.
“I’m dadgum glad this one wasn’t,” Cochrane said.
No, this call arrived wonderfully out of nowhere.
Almost 50 years after coaching his last game, Cochrane — the father and architect of the Bowling Green men’s soccer and lacrosse programs and a longtime professor — learned he was being inducted into the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame.