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Briggs: Better late than never, Hall of Fame needs to bring these BG legends in

BOWLING GREEN — With the induction this month of Mickey Cochrane into the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame — a mere half century after the 93-year-old father of the Bowling Green men’s soccer and lacrosse programs coached his final game — it got me thinking:

Who else deserves a little better-late-than-never love?

At BG, two names come to mind.

The first one is more overdue than the Rambo III videotape archaeologists found in my attic VCR (sorry, Blockbuster).

That’s Butch Komives, one of the great scoring wizards in college basketball history.

Believe it or not, the sharpshooting Woodward graduate is not in the MAC Hall, which, in fairness, has been around for only .