LOL. There are some very funny posts in this thread. OK, as far as my lil' cuz, is concerned: Don't be alarmed that he came from a small school. He could have actually gone to one of the big schools. Personally, I told him that he should have. However, I understand why he didn't. His grades were shaky, and the big schools backed off of him, because they didn't know if he would qualify. To backtrack a little bit, my cuz could have gone to one of the major high schools in Atlanta where they really scout basketball talent, but his father didn't allow it. The coach there kept asking about him, because his older sister went to that high school. It's a "magnet school" and the coach would have gotten into one of the programs. His father (my uncle) said that he didn't have the grades to get into the magnet program. The coach said that he would have "fixed it" so that Kevin could go to the school. Well, my uncle still didn't bite. After Kevin played against that magnet school and killed them single-handedly, the coach cursed my uncle out and was furious that he didn't let Kevin go to the school. LOL. The next game they played against that school, Kevin was triple-teamed. Anyway, back on course now. The big schools backed off of him because they didn't know if he would qualify. Tennessee Tech came and they stuck with him for a couple of years. They even invited him to their campus and let him take summer courses there and they helped him get his grades up. After everyone realized that Kevin would qualify, the big schools came calling at the last minute. However, his father told him to show some loyalty, since Tennessee Tech had stuck with him for all of that time, and that's how Kevin ended up going to a smaller school, even though bigger schools wanted him. On one hand, my uncle said that he has some regret that he didn't go ahead and let Kevin go to a bigger high school and go to a big college. On the other hand, he's glad that he didn't go the other route. I was talking to him, and I said that if he would have gone the other route where Kevin was given everything and didn't have to earn his own way, that might have ruined him as a person. We see far too many spoiled athletes that didn't have to work for anything and had things handed to them that they didn't earn. I mean, it would have been nice to have Kevin get more exposure, and possibly be drafted in the first round, but things seem to be working out pretty OK now anyway.
I'll post more later, but I need to go right now. Sorry if I confused anyone or if it sounds as if I'm rambling. I'm rushing this morning.
