Rick's Rants: Barbs' move was all class

Don't know him well, but I've been impressed with DeKalb's young boys basketball coach Dave Rohlman in our brief encounters as I've covered Western Sun Conference boys basketball the past couple years. That's why the story about him having senior point guard Darius McNeal intentionally miss a pair of free throws in a recent game in Milwaukee didn't surprise me. The extenuating circumstances made it the right, and classy, thing to do.

It's nice to see a good story get some national attention.

It must run in the family. A couple decades ago (now that's scary) I covered the Barbs for the DeKalb Daily Chronicle when they were coached by Dave's uncle, Art Rohlman, who will retire this year as athletic director at Elgin High School.

Art was a class act, too, although a bit more exciteable on the bench. I'd bet he had more technical fouls credited to him in his coaching career than his nephew ever will.