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Briggs: Driving a 26-year-old minivan, BG basketball coach Todd Simon races to build a winner.

BOWLING GREEN — Soon enough, once he is done finding players, Todd Simon will find his bearings.

The new Bowling Green men’s basketball coach will settle into his new house, decorate his new office, and buy a new car.

Now is not that time.

With his wife, Kati, and their four children not arriving for a few more weeks, his focus is entirely on replenishing a nearly vacant BG roster.

Each day, the 42-year-old Simon awakens on a mattress on the floor, hops into his gold 1997 Toyota Siena — on loan from mom in his native Fowler, Mich.