1. Your carpool is the whole basketball team

Your family has a big 12 passenger van and every morning in high school it was 10 basketball players, your dad, and you who loaded up in the van to head to school. The van smells like a boys locker room and the only perk was being able to get shotgun every time.

2. Your futon almost always has a player staying there.

On countless occasions, players needed a place to stay whether for one night, one week or even a month your dad always made a place for them to stay.

3. You could make money off the amount of basketball games you have been too.

You have probably watched over a hundred basketball games… a year. If you could make a dollar off of every game you went to, a college degree would not be necessary.

4. Your vacation schedule is planned around offseason workouts and basketball camps.

Most vacations are started by leaving straight from the gym after a summer league playoff game or summer workout.

5. Your garage is overflowing with old basketballs.

Basketballs. Everywhere. You could probably provide a basketball for half of the people on your contact list.

6. Your driveway has more than one basketball goal.

You don't have just one basketball goal in your yard; you have two. Because you never know when the gym might be closed and practice needs to be moved to your yard.

7. Your laundry room has more than one bag of uniforms to be washed in it.

When you go to do laundry, you have to be careful that you don’t touch the sweaty bags of jerseys from the night before that have to be washed before the next game that night.

8. You know the plays better than the team does.

You have helped your dad put together the playbooks, and dinner topics are often how the plays worked in the games or how they didn’t work. So you know the plays and the players roles better than they do.

9. You know more about high school basketball than the kids who are actually playing.

a number of random facts that you know about high school basketball players, schools, records and much more is insane. The sad thing is that you most likely know more than the kids that are playing the sport is the truth.

10. Almost every meal there is at least three players at the table.

Family dinner means your family plus half the team, but it's still family dinner because the team is a part of the family.

11. But you wouldn’t change a thing because you love it.

You wouldn’t change any of it because you love your dad and know that he loves what he does. He models how coaching is so much more than basketball but is a way to make others like Jesus. You have watched him help boys become men and changed players lives forever. So every single thing is worth it.