Barry Brown Sr., the father of Kansas State’s star guard, was “a knucklehead” as a teen, he’s quick to tell you.
And that’s why one night he fired a gun in the air and ended up being arrested for second-degree murder and spending 55 days in jail before being released for a crime he hadn’t committed.
“Sometimes, God puts us through things to prepare us for other things,” said Brown, now a school principal and long-time educator. “It changed my life. It was purposeful.”
What he considers the grace of a second chance led him to becoming a star basketball player at Jacksonville University.