When the NCAA announced this fall that all college basketball players would be granted an extra year of eligibility regardless of the outcome of this season, Tyson Jolly took the time to do something he has never done: pause.
It is a rarity in college sports to be afforded the chance to stop and think. Jolly, himself the consummate college basketball journeyman, had been on the sport’s unending spinning wheel for years.
He had bounced around to Baylor, then Trinity Valley Community College and then finally SMU. All the while, he never fully grappled with deaths in his family, among his friends and the piling up school work that accompanied his transfers.