Mick Cochran is loved and endeared by a grateful community. His record stands for itself in the 24 years he has given himself to coaching.
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WHEATLAND – The definition of a legend is a story coming down from the past. Especially one popularly regarded as historical. One of the other sub definitions of the word is “a person or thing that inspires.”
By those explanations alone, you could rightly say that Wheatland varsity boys basketball coach Mick Cochran has the heart of a legend.
To quote Frank Morgan, is perhaps a better way to describe a man who would never blow his own horn. “A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
Cochran is loved and endeared by a grateful community. His record stands for itself in the 24 years he has given himself to coaching. Although he has coached many sports, the game that this article is written about is basketball since it is through a similar love for the game and the same lens that the it was chosen to be written.
He has been coaching in Wheatland for 22 years and in the span of his career, he had a hard time trying to figure out his career coaching record only because those numbers weren’t something at the top of his list of priorities.
What numbers do impress him are the hundreds of kids that have graduated and gone on to be successes in life. Cochran is a coach that teaches a game of basketball and with it, a teaching on how life parallels the sport.
From the time restraints that you have to make a difference, to learning different roles. From learning how to work as a team within the boundaries of play, ruled and judged by officials you have most likely never met.