Hoop Dreams
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for me to stay in school.
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They say if she don't have it by this time,
you gotta stay out till she pay it.

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I was staying out, like,
two and three weeks and stuff.

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By the end of the freshman year...
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whatever balance there was for tuition
was never taken care of.

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Consequently,
going into the sophomore year...

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we had the balance
plus the new tuition...

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so that it was going to continue
to become a problem.

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Whatever scout that they have come out
to these different neighborhoods...

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and scout out
these little basketball players...

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and get 'em to come to their school
and offer them these scholarships.

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Then once they get out there,
the story is totally different.

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I was under the impression that Arthur would
have help as far as getting to school...

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Arthur would have help
in getting his books.

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But, see, none of that occur.
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Finally, with the Agees
owing $ 1,500 in back payments...

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St. Joseph's forced Arthur
to leave the school.

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I thought Pingatore and them
would help me out, but -

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You have to draw the line
because, as I said...

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tuition is something that,
as a school, we depend on...

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for 90%% of our revenue.
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I guess he thought I wasn't gonna be
that big of a ballplayer.

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So why would he just waste some money
on me staying there?

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Or, you know, he thought
I wasn't gonna grow.

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he kept on saying,
"When are you gonna grow?"

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Well, I don't know.
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If I had known that all of this
was gonna lead to this...

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Arthur would have never went
to St. Joseph's.

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I mean, if I had known that he was gonna
have to go through this type of pain...

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and myself- the anguish of it...

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