Parrish on Caracter

Garry Parrish’s latest column with CBSSports.com’s college basketball section discusses a hoops player by the name of Derrick Caracter. If you don’t follow Louisville hoops, or weren’t up on the latest high school players a couple of years ago, here’s the scoop: Apparently Caracter was a promising middle school hoop star, He was 6-9 in middle school and dominating high school players. In high school he didn’t grow anymore, but still played awesomely, well enough to get a scholarship to Louisville, one of the top college basketball programs in the nation. However, according to Louisville coach Rick Pitino, Caracter never worked hard, never gave it his all, and thus he will leave the university soon, bound for the Oklahoma City University, an NAIA school.

There are plenty of players who do not turn out to be the big deal that they were made out to be, and every time it happens, its quite tragic. Garry gets a little overboard when he says that Caracter will not be able to amount to anything beyond basketball, though. He’s still going to get a degree, and he’s still, by Pintino’s admission, a very bright man. He’s just got to figure out how to work hard. He’s still very young. He’s got time. Hang in there, Derrick.

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