Episode 72 - Brook Cupps - Head Coach Centerville High School (Ohio)

Basketball and Life: with Coach Jon Cook

Brook Cupps graduated from Graham High School in St. Paris, Ohio near Springfield in 1995, and following a 4-year playing career at Capital University in Columbus, he returned to Graham. He became the head coach in 2000 and spent 12 seasons building a high level basketball program at a relatively small school with a national reputation for wrestling. But that is the information that anyone can get from Google. What many don't know, and what Coach Cupps shares in today's episode is that in the midst of building his program things changed. His focus, his understanding and his purpose as a basketball coach all began to evolve beyond as he says it, "...just coaching basketball like everyone else was coaching basketball...". It was a change that he says saved his career as a basketball coach. In 2012, following a remarkable run with the Falcons, including a trip to the state semifinals, Coach Cupps left his alma mater to become the head coach at Centerville High School. With him came the somewhat unique and ever evolving philosophy of coaching that is more, a lot more than just style of play and X's & O's. Please enjoy my fascinating conversation with Brook Cupps of Centerville High School.