This weekend, Homer Drew, the longtime coach at Valparaiso University, is getting inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City.
That’s the good news.
“It’s a wonderful honor,” he said.
The better news? Due to a lucky break in scheduling, he won’t miss any games at the small, Nashville-area high school school where he still, at age 75 and having battled cancer, volunteers as an assistant.
“Once a coach, always a coach,” said his son, Scott, who is the head coach at Baylor. “He can’t stay away. He’s going to find a practice somewhere.