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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 3879204, member: 6798"] In the spirit of things I may as well share the one personal story in the memory bank that involves Desko. It is more like my dad's story involving me, but anyways: My dad played pickup basketball with Desko when he was a good deal younger and got to know him back then in a casual way. He saw Desko again at one of my team's summer lacrosse tourneys in early high school. This was one of those that Cuse held on the numerous fields just by Manley with a whole bunch of teams. Desko sat down near my dad in the grass and my dad pointed out where I was on the field in a joking "you should check out this kid" sort of way (I am skinny as hell and don't exactly make up for it with speed so D1 was not even a pipe dream). They were also quite far away from the action on a hill. Desko smiled and glanced over at the field and then they just went back to small talk. My dad said that even though they were so far away, and even though they were basically focused and making eye contact occasionally while talking, Desko would see every little play I was making and throw in a little comment whenever I did something good, all just by glancing at a field off in the distance with his peripheral vision. He would be looking at my dad going "yeah so the family is doing pretty well -oh hey your son just got a nice assist- and the wife is doing fine, the kids - oh hey nice groundball from your son there -" all from way over on a hill far away from the field in mid conversation. My dad had no idea how he did it! I guess decades of recruiting really sharpens the eyes. In the end apparently I didn't do enough to get the call and the full ride, but I was smiling for about a week strait after my dad told the story later that day. Excitement is in the air, but this is still a sad day. [/QUOTE]

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