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The Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association inductees Ohio High
School Basketball Coaches into its Hall of Fame each year. The first year
of induction was in 1987 where 9 legendary coaches were inducted into the
initial class. The year, 2010, marks the 24th year that a class
will be inducted in the Hall of Fame. This years inductees include
Tom Eibel of
New London, Jack Greathouse of Lancaster, Bob Hart of Columbus East
and James Lower of Canal Fulton Northwest. The total now stands at
119 Members who have been inducted
into the Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
The procedure
used for the selection of candidates into the Hall of Fame is as follows:
(1) Voting takes place at the OHSBCA Fall Meeting, (2) No more than
four people shall be inducted in any one year, (3) The candidates
receiving the highest number of votes will be considered to be the Class
for that particular year, (4) Committee will make a recommendation to the
District Directors of the coaches to be inducted into the Hall of Fame,
(5) District Directors will vote to approve the recommendation of the
coaches to be inducted in the Hall of Fame and (6) A majority vote for each candidate is required.
The criteria a nominee must posses in order to be considered as an
inductee
are: (1) coached Varsity for twenty years, (2) won 300 Varsity games,
(3) was a member of the OHSBCA for the last ten years, (4) an active member
in the OHSBCA as a Director or Officer, (5) coached in State All-Star Games,
(6) achieved Tournament success and (7) retired from active coaching for
one full season before his/her induction date. The criteria to be
considered for Honorary Membership is the person must contributed to the
total development of the sport of basketball in a non-coaching or coaching
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