Michigan State basketball pickup game is what college sports are about
Carson Cooper's social media post and Michigan State basketball's impromptu campus pickup game shows what makes college sports special and different.
What makes college sports unique sometimes gets obscured. Especially these days. Blinded by the bright lights of games starting close to midnight to fill programming blocks for television.
Overshadowed by big money being paid to coaches and now players. Drowned by the seemingly endless annual flood of athletes from one school to the next, with overboard social media fury and praise from fans and haters they all receive gushing through phones every second. It’s hard to remember at times that these are young adults surrounded by other young adults who are all still learning and developing, preparing for their lives beyond the classrooms.
Professionally and socially. Until you get a gentle reminder that the athletic giants do still walk among their peers. Or a not-so-gentle clue, as gobsmacking as a Coen Carr slam dunk over a classmate on a random Tuesday night in March.
Earlier this week, Michigan State basketball 's Carson Cooper put out a late-afternoon open call on his Instagram story for a pickup game on Tuesday, March 31. The departing senior and some of his teammates, whose season came to an end with a loss to Connecticut in the Sweet 16 on Friday in Washington, planned to head to IM West and have some fun. It was something his former teammate, Frankie Fidler, did a year ago.
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