and which one of you is the 30 year old belligerent drunk guy? heh. Won't link it as it's behind a wall...And before anyone jumps on the kid for these observations, note the bold sentence.
"The first time Sacha Killeya-Jones moved into his Kentucky dormitory, his father recalls watching a couple of fans who were waiting outside promptly approach for an autograph. Reggie Jones had heard plenty of stories about how much UK fans love their basketball team. Before his son signed with the Cats, they’d also been warned that Kentucky isn’t for everybody.
Hearing it and experiencing it turned out to be two very different things for Killeya-Jones. There were the well-meaning restaurant managers who would approach his table to talk basketball. The people who, even though they did not come up to him, would sneak or take pictures. The “I don’t mean to disturb you,” fans who would nevertheless impose on his time. And that one time a drunk man in his 30s came up to Killeya-Jones, his dad and little brother while they were eating wings, promising in a profanity-laced, word-slurring diatribe that he could help “take his game to another level.”
Oh, and there was the time at the McDonald’s All-America game. After posting on Twitter a picture of his UK recruiting class “throwing their L’s down” as a diss toward Louisville, a user sent a response picture wearing a Cardinals’ pullover and holding a gun up to a UK stuffed animal with the message that he’d get “put in a body bag” for trying that in Louisville.
That’s the part of being at Kentucky the 6-foot-11 forward does not miss at all. The spotlight began as kind of a cool feeling when fans lined up the length of the court to cop an autograph when he was just visiting as a five-star recruit. But it soon turned overwhelming, as he felt like he lost any pretense of privacy and the ability to be a regular college student. The Chapel Hill, N.C. native says now he has no regrets from spending the past two seasons at Kentucky. But in transferring to N.C. State he’s found a comfort level he never quite achieved in Lexington. He’s back home, reveling in his relative anonymity while sitting out this season as a transfer.
“When you go out (in Raleigh), not everyone is going to recognize you and know your first, middle and last name as soon as they see you,” Killeya-Jones says. “You go somewhere, they might recognize you’re a basketball player, but you might have more friendly conversations and less interactions with, like, crazed fans and stuff like that.”....
"The first time Sacha Killeya-Jones moved into his Kentucky dormitory, his father recalls watching a couple of fans who were waiting outside promptly approach for an autograph. Reggie Jones had heard plenty of stories about how much UK fans love their basketball team. Before his son signed with the Cats, they’d also been warned that Kentucky isn’t for everybody.
Hearing it and experiencing it turned out to be two very different things for Killeya-Jones. There were the well-meaning restaurant managers who would approach his table to talk basketball. The people who, even though they did not come up to him, would sneak or take pictures. The “I don’t mean to disturb you,” fans who would nevertheless impose on his time. And that one time a drunk man in his 30s came up to Killeya-Jones, his dad and little brother while they were eating wings, promising in a profanity-laced, word-slurring diatribe that he could help “take his game to another level.”
Oh, and there was the time at the McDonald’s All-America game. After posting on Twitter a picture of his UK recruiting class “throwing their L’s down” as a diss toward Louisville, a user sent a response picture wearing a Cardinals’ pullover and holding a gun up to a UK stuffed animal with the message that he’d get “put in a body bag” for trying that in Louisville.
That’s the part of being at Kentucky the 6-foot-11 forward does not miss at all. The spotlight began as kind of a cool feeling when fans lined up the length of the court to cop an autograph when he was just visiting as a five-star recruit. But it soon turned overwhelming, as he felt like he lost any pretense of privacy and the ability to be a regular college student. The Chapel Hill, N.C. native says now he has no regrets from spending the past two seasons at Kentucky. But in transferring to N.C. State he’s found a comfort level he never quite achieved in Lexington. He’s back home, reveling in his relative anonymity while sitting out this season as a transfer.
“When you go out (in Raleigh), not everyone is going to recognize you and know your first, middle and last name as soon as they see you,” Killeya-Jones says. “You go somewhere, they might recognize you’re a basketball player, but you might have more friendly conversations and less interactions with, like, crazed fans and stuff like that.”....
