Being 6’11” makes a lot of things difficult. Walking through doorways, driving cars, buying clothes. Being in college only presents more challenges for a young man trying to sit comfortably in a classroom desk built for people a foot shorter or trying to find a dorm room bed where his legs don’t stick out of the end like a baguette in a grocery sack.
For Aric Holman, now a sophomore on Mississippi State’s basketball team, the problems didn’t end there. As he continued to out-grow his classmates over the years, Holman neared the end of high school in Owensboro, Kentucky, convinced there was going to forever be one more complication from his great height: dating.