My Losing Season; Post 2

After Pat graduated from high school, he had only one option for college. It was The Citadel. The Citadel is a military school and from what Pat had seen from his father up to this point in his life, this was not the direction he wanted to take his life. Due to his parents not having anywhere close to the money to send him to college for long, he walked on as a basketball player. Conroy was promised by coach Mel Thompson that he and the other freshman basketball players that they would not endure the wrath of the plebean system. During his first week at the Citadel 1/3 of his freshman basketball team quit and left The Citadel, and by the end of the season Half of his Freshman team which won every single game, save a game against Clemson. One player even offered to let Conroy leave and go live with his family and attend another college in Georgia. Though Conroy would have loved all of these things he wasn't able to both because of his fathers rage for leaving a military school, and the fact that his parents could not pay for any other school.