InstiGATOR1
11-15-2012, 02:15 AM
You know most of this, but there are some details that at least I did not know. This story begins:
The unlikely turnaround success story of Florida's Erik Murphy
By Jeff Goodman | College Basketball Insider
November 15, 2012 12:46 am ET
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Erik Murphy was all but gone. His father -- and just about everyone else close to him -- wanted him to leave Gainesville and he was on the verge of telling Billy Donovan that it was best he play elsewhere. There was even a list for the Rhode Island native: the local school, URI, along with Boston College, Providence, Notre Dame and Harvard. However, Murphy walked into Donovan's office in a haze, broke down in tears and departed still a member of the Gators team.
Then just hours later, on April 10, 2011, Murphy's life forever changed. It's when he, ex-Gators manager Josh Adel and former teammate Cody Larson were arrested in nearby St. Augustine for, well, making a poor decision. He found himself in a white jumpsuit with shackles, locked up in jail in the middle of the night, after the police arrested the trio for allegedly breaking into a vehicle.
"It was scary," Murphy said. "I had cuffs on from my hands to my feet. It was really scary."
Murphy isn't a knucklehead. In the effort of full disclosure, I've known him since he was a freshman at St. Mark's (Mass.). He's one of the few college athletes I'd trust to babysit my 9-year-old daughter and wouldn't worry for a second. He made a bonehead move, but we've all made them somewhere along the way. Murphy's blunder, though, drew public scrutiny because he's a college athlete.
Read the rest here:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/20985973/the-unlikely-turnaround-success-story-of-floridas-erik-murphy-
The unlikely turnaround success story of Florida's Erik Murphy
By Jeff Goodman | College Basketball Insider
November 15, 2012 12:46 am ET
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Erik Murphy was all but gone. His father -- and just about everyone else close to him -- wanted him to leave Gainesville and he was on the verge of telling Billy Donovan that it was best he play elsewhere. There was even a list for the Rhode Island native: the local school, URI, along with Boston College, Providence, Notre Dame and Harvard. However, Murphy walked into Donovan's office in a haze, broke down in tears and departed still a member of the Gators team.
Then just hours later, on April 10, 2011, Murphy's life forever changed. It's when he, ex-Gators manager Josh Adel and former teammate Cody Larson were arrested in nearby St. Augustine for, well, making a poor decision. He found himself in a white jumpsuit with shackles, locked up in jail in the middle of the night, after the police arrested the trio for allegedly breaking into a vehicle.
"It was scary," Murphy said. "I had cuffs on from my hands to my feet. It was really scary."
Murphy isn't a knucklehead. In the effort of full disclosure, I've known him since he was a freshman at St. Mark's (Mass.). He's one of the few college athletes I'd trust to babysit my 9-year-old daughter and wouldn't worry for a second. He made a bonehead move, but we've all made them somewhere along the way. Murphy's blunder, though, drew public scrutiny because he's a college athlete.
Read the rest here:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/20985973/the-unlikely-turnaround-success-story-of-floridas-erik-murphy-