Eric Menkhus

Stephen Jackson says he committed to Arizona with Mike Bibby as part of the nation’s No. 1 recruiting class in 1996, but failed a college entrance exam because he didn’t realize the proctor was there to help him with the answers “Arizona set me up. We had the number one recruiting class, me and Mike Bibby, Eugene Edgerson. I'm on campus the first semester. Where I'm from, I'm not used to people helping me with nothing. They set me up to take the test in a house on campus” “I go in the house. It's a dude right there. He gave me the test. He's like, ‘You can start now.’ I'm like, ‘What do they think is going to be different from the other 20 times I took this test?’ The test is at 8am. I just got back to my dorm by 630am. So I'm just like ABCADABA” “I hand him the test. He's like, ‘I'm surprised you didn't ask me nothing.’ They set it up for me to sit there and take the test with a tutor so I could ask him the questions and pass. But me just coming from the hood, not expecting people to help me, I ain't thinking that dude was there to help me. I'm thinking he’s there to police me. To make sure I don't cheat” “They put the motherfucker there to help me, and I ain't know it. I'm still high from the club and I'm not even thinking that they set this shit up for the dude to help me pass... Where I’m from ain't nobody white just giving you answers to nothing” via @KowchPotatoes