What this is about

“Remember when that baby-faced kid put Davidson on the map? He may be gone, but the memories continue ...”

That’s what Charlotte WSOC-TV sports anchor Bill Voth tweeted this morning, and I appreciate him noticing our project and spreading the word, but it gives me an opportunity to say something that needs to be said.

This isn’t about memories. It’s not about the past. I mean, it is about the past, I guess, in the same way everything’s about the past, because the past leads of course to the present. So it’s about memories in that sense, yes, granted, but it isn’t about remembering for the sake of chasing some once-was feel-good glow. That’s for the old guys at the bar with their boozy coulda woulda shouldas. This is not that.

This is our effort to tell a small piece of a big story that never stops. Basketball is the window here, it is the entry point, but the story -- the story is of a place and its people.