
From the Washinton Times, “The riches are too great and the failures so absolute that coaches will do most anything to secure the next blue-chip recruit, even if he is only renting him for a season before the prodigy rushes to collect a fat paycheck from the NBA. That was the case with point guard Derrick Rose, the basketball mercenary who found his way to Memphis from Chicago but only after someone passed the SAT for him.”