Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Success on the court by any objective measure hasn’t come yet for Creighton redshirt sophomore Damien Jefferson. But had his story been written last fall when he arrived on campus after his freshman season at New Mexico it would have revealed the struggles of a young college basketball player faced with the reality of trying to fit in at a new school, in a new town, and in a system not necessarily suited to highlight the skill set he had on day one.