Cotton Futures are Up!

This is a great story my son Matt told me last night.  Matt grew up in, and is attending law school in Tucson Arizona.  He also attended Palo Verde High School in Tucson back when he thought he'd become a teacher, and well...here's the story in Matt's words...

#11, Bryce Cotton

So when I was doing my student teaching at Palo Verde High School, there was a sophomore in my World History class named Austin, this big country boy from Louisville. Austin was a writer for the student paper, and a manager for the basketball team. He was friends with a senior on the team named Bryce Cotton, who was a lower-level Division I prospect. Austin was basically Bryce’s hype man.

Austin liked to write and he was a huge Louisville Cardinal basketball fan. He was always writing stories for, and making posts to Louisville basketball forums basically saying…

"Hey, Pitino should come look at my boy Bryce Cotton," and of course all the other posters on the forums would say "Yeah, yeah, sure," thinking Austin is jerking them around. "Ok dude, any other buddies from your high school you'd like Pitino to offer a scholarship to?"

Bryce, versus #15 Louisville

So Cotton was making the rounds, doing the things that lower level prospects do to try to and get offered scholarships. Around the last day of summer, right before college started, Bryce Cotton received and accepted a scholarship offer from Providence College. That was two years ago. Bryce Cotton is a sophomore now.

On January 10th, Providence College beat Rick Pitino’s #15 Louisville Cardinals 90-59.

The leading scorer in the game with 27 points? You got it, Bryce Cotton.

Amidst all the frustrated chatter on the forums during and after the game, someone asks Austin:

No wool, I need cotton!

"Hey, do you think Bryce Cotton would still come to Louisville?"