Every night there’s a local basketball game going on.
We’ve been showing highlights, but there’s so much more to tell than a showing basket or a touchdown when talking football.
There’s that human element.
Sometimes that goes unnoticed.
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Massac County boys basketball is 5-0.
Coach Joe Hosman is quickly approaching career win 750.
The milestones are great, the box scores remind us of the victories and big game stats.
But as Coach tells us, there’s so much more, Something a box score will never share.
A bond between player and coach.
It’s a special relationship.
Hard to understand unless you’ve experienced it.Ìý
"Right now I have one, two three, four coaches that help me that I coached," Hosman said.
"And I see guys that come back and are good fathers, good husbands and pillars of the community and the other night I called one of my former players in Texas and two of them is in Florida and just to get to see them and see them bring their kids in and just seeing them be men that’s what I remember the most."
"Obviously you want to win. I want to win but in the long run, it’s the kids you remember the players you had and see them grow up to be men. I’ve been at it long enough that I’ve been coaching some of them that have sons, I coached the dad so that’s what’s special to me." Ìý
