WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It was Feb. 24, the day before Senior Day, when Derrick Walton Jr. sat at in the Ross Academic Center, expounding on his college career. It had been over four years since he arrived at Michigan, back when he was bunked up with a kid named Zak Irvin from Fishers, Indiana.
Walton was asked, if given the chance, what would he like to say more than anything? What does he want people to know?
Long pause. Walton looked around the empty room.
He began ...
"All the (expletive) that people give Zak .