Scott Swanson
Ed Nieman really never had plans to be a basketball coach.
And it really wasn’t a long journey for him to the bench, but the trip took him a long way: to Sweet Home High School’s first and only state title, in 1993.
“I was kind of an unintended coach,” Nieman said.
And, he makes it very, very clear, it wasn’t all about him. It was devoted players who had working together down…