I’m not going to tell you that you should root for Herb Pope. Not after the multiple, below-the-belt sucker punches he threw at a Texas Tech big man in last year’s NIT.
But before you make the decision to hate him, I urge you to read this article from SNY’s Adam Zagoria. If that’s too much, how about just this block quote:
Or this one:
And definitely read this one:
Pope has another scar across his chest from his latest brush with death, the one that required heart surgery to deal with a birth defect -- an anomalous right coronary artery -- that Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard said they “usually only find in an autopsy.”
“To me, I really don’t see a problem with it,” Pope said. “Obviously, it being a birth defect, it’s kind of like it was going to happen at some point. And I can talk about it so it doesn’t bother me. Some people that it happened to, they’re not here to talk about it.”
Its easy to criticize without having lived his life.