Scot Pollard Column: There’s No Place Like Home When Home Is Lawrence

On the heels of explaining why the NBA should raise the age limit to 21, Kansas’ Scot Pollard looks back on his time in Lawrence and explains why there isn’t a better place to experience college basketball than the place which James Naismith and Phog Allen both called home. Yes, @scotpollard31 is proud to be a Jayhawk. “When I took my recruiting visit to the University of Kansas, I knew it was a special place. “Pay heed all who enter, beware of the Phog”. What does that mean? The Fieldhouse is named after Forrest “Phog” Allen. Wilt Chamberlain played there. Dean Smith played there. Yes, Dean was a Jayhawk first. Adolph Rupp learned the game there. I could go on… They had 17,000 show up for their first practice! At midnight! I committed, more to Roy Williams than the university, and definitely not to the state of Kansas. I went to high school in San Diego and the state of Washington. San Diego was home, I was DEFINITELY going back. Bu...