When Andre Drummond first expressed curiosity in taking part in for UConn, Huskies head coach Jim Calhoun’s ear pricked up.
There was just one drawback, they didn’t have any scholarships left.
“I’m like, ‘okay, properly I’m gonna dangle up now’,” Drummond mentioned of the alternate in an interview with Varsity Home Podcast. “He mentioned ‘wait, perhaps you possibly can pay for college. We all know you’re not gonna do 4 years of school right here’.”
In line with Drummond, Calhoun additionally mentioned he can be keen to strip one other participant of their scholarship with the intention to give it to him.
“I didn’t know who he was till I obtained there, however DeAndre Daniels was the participant they had been speaking about. I used to be like, ‘that’s not proper, I don’t wanna try this. So I used to be like, ‘nah I don’t need it, let him maintain it’.
“I’ll simply pay for college and determine it out from there. So yeah, I paid for college. Anyone simply talked about I’m the very best walk-on in NCAA historical past (laughs).”
So not solely did UConn get Drummond for his one-and-done season, however additionally they prevented damaging their relationship with DeAndre Daniels, who was the second-leading scorer on UConn’s 2014 nationwide championship profitable workforce.
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