Race Thompson has done for five years what his team needs him to do now: Persist through adversity, to hard-earned success. 🔴⚪️ iubb
Race Thompson was so skilled, Miller and his staff installed Fred Hoiberg-inspired sets to let him run point guard some of the time. Those coaches were desperate to sell Thompson on what they might do with him, how they might marry his talent to their methods and win games together.
First by a mutually agreed upon redshirt year to adjust physically to life in college, a promise Miller kept even as injuries thinned his frontcourt. Then by a concussion worse than either of his parents, a former Minnesota running back and a former Iowa volleyball player, nor IU’s medical staff had ever seen. Then by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic that prematurely ended what might turn out to be the only NCAA tournament-worthy season of Thompson’s Indiana career.
“You have to hold yourself to a higher standard,” Woodson told Thompson that day. “Come to practice ready to go every day, and be a leader — on the floor, off the floor.” “Do the best you can do,” Darrell Thompson said. “If you can’t do it, that’s fine, but if you can, then you should.” When IU returned to campus that summer, the Hoosiers wanted to make a statement about the turmoil around them, and the pain it caused. Many, like Thompson, had attended marches or otherwise spoken out. Now, they wanted collective action.
And should it then not surprise you that, amid the uncertainty of a coaching change, the person described above would embrace the challenge Woodson laid before him in that meeting last spring, rather than walking away from it? “He has been one of the most consistent players in the Big Ten. I mean, his numbers are very, very consistent in terms of how he's played,” Woodson said recently. “You've got to pat him on the butt and say, ‘Hey, job well done.’ Still got a lot of work still left, but the work that he's put in in practice and on the floor has paid off for him and we've benefited from it.”
Thompson defers the decision until after the season when asked. He’s talked to his family about it a little bit. Everyone agrees it’s best to push it aside and focus on the task at hand. Asked again during a post-practice Zoom meeting with the media about his decision, Thompson reiterated his decision will take a backseat to the season until the latter concludes.
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